Cold Callers

Product Description


How far will a mother go to protect her infant child?
Marcie Hall is a victim of the recession and now lives in a creepy old house in a run-down area of town. She hates the house, the street outside and her unfriendly neighbours – and she’s very afraid at night. Her greatest joy is her four-month-old baby Nicola. While her husband is away at work, she cares for her beloved child and works from home to add to their meagre income...
A frantic knocking on her front door heralds the arrival of the Cold Callers – and a night of harrowing terror begins for the mother and her baby. Marcie finds the house under siege by creatures than are neither human nor animal... Creatures with horrific intent...
Marcie is outnumbered and her attackers are stronger, faster and vicious. Her greatest weapon is her own maternal instinct – her frantic need to keep Nicola from harm. To have any hope of saving her baby, Marcie will have to overcome her fears and fight with greater courage than she ever realised she possessed.
Can love and desperation defeat savage, malignant evil?
This is the eleventh in the series of Short Horror Tales - quick reads written to captivate the reader with thrills, chills and unexpected twists.


Review


From Reader Reviews for Short Horror Tales:

 

"This story has a beginning introduction that is a superb insight into the character and endearing him to us. The action comes swiftly and just as you think it's over the author, Ian Thompson, gives us a fresh and exciting twist. The end is satisfying and brings the story back around to where it begun, in terms of the theme and focus of the character. This is thoroughly spooky, enticing and well written from start to finish." - Katie Lewington

 

"Damn scary 5-Star story"

 

"Great short story..."

 

"I could feel the fear..."

 

 (see full reviews on my website)


From the Author


So what's special about Short Horror Tales?

 

The vision for each Short Horror Tale is to create a short movie in the reader's mind - usually around sixty minutes long, fast-paced, with vivid characters, disturbing threats and desperate action. The exact type of story will vary - perhaps it will be a supernatural mystery, a deadly hunt, a battle or a very personal drama. Always, there will be something sinister lurking in the darkness.

 

These are tales I hope you will want to enjoy again and again.

 

Do all these stories take place in the same creative world?

 

Most of them do, and readers will see references in stories to events, people and places from other tales. Mr Slowly, a lethal assassin, is the leading character in a number of the stories so far. Think of the world of these Short Horror Tales as our own modern-day world... with a much darker side.

 

Occasionally, some stories will play out in their own private 'sandbox' - tales, for instance, with catastrophic or apocalyptic themes.