Four MORE FREE Horror eBooks

To commemorate next week's release of the last book in the international bestselling Tales of the Macabre series. Here are four free eBooks.

Nov 04, 2025

Greetings, my wicked darlings,

Well, the last giveaway was certainly popular. In fact, it was hoovered up with the same level of enthusiasm as Tina hoovered up Charlie’s ashes in The Black Shuck (TotM 3). Given that, it would have been callous not to repeat the gesture.

So, to celebrate the release of TotM 4 next week, here is a free horror story from each of the books in The Macabre Codex.

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The Black Fog

(Available as a FREE download for the first time)

First appearing in Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 1. Ah, the memories. I was so young (citation needed) and innocent (unlikely). The cover was the first I made myself, so it was rough around the edges. It used a stock photo of a harbour and some terrible tentacles that I tried to fix by making them semi-translucent.

1958, Grimsdyke. A sleepy seaside town that is stagnant and dying. The residents go about their dull, insignificant lives, unaware that the black fog is coming.

Now, they face a new threat. Something is hiding in the fog, and it hungers for their souls.

The Enigmatic Skeleton

From Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 2.

I wrote this in a single session. My nanny founded four museums in her spare time when she was not raising three girls and supporting her husband, the vicar, and she was fascinated by Sutton Hoo.

I read a BBC News article, although it may have been New Scientist, about teenagers developing an abnormal bone growth called "text neck."

Then the rest of the story basically wrote itself. I loved the rare occasions when that happened.

When a professor tries to unravel the mysteries of a macabre human skeleton collection, he discovers that curiosity comes with its own perils.

Ain't Nothin' But The Blues

From Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 3.

The inspiration for this came from my absolute fangirling over The Originals. I really wanted to write Southern Gothic after binging the whole series. As a white British man, I relied heavily on my Southern American friend, Clam, to fix the Anglicised text and help me unleash my inner American.

Deep in the sweltering heart of 56' New Orleans, Jackson Gray, a Xavier University student, becomes entwined in the nocturnal blues sessions of former music maestro Elliot Banks.

However, Banks has a dangerous secret.

The Spinster

And we are back up to date with Tales of the Macabre, Vol. 4 (available for pre-order at $0.99).

I was reading a lot of articles in the British media about landlords, in the BBC and The Guardian. They were portrayed (in some cases correctly) as predatory, vampiric beings. It was terrifying, so obviously I decided to make a story out of it.

To be fair to the Beeb, nobody quite mentioned pickling babies, but I exaggerate professionally.