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I have recently started volunteering every Tuesday morning at Totnes Museum, a fascinating historic building tucked away on Fore Street in the heart of Totnes, Devon. The museum is housed in a beautiful Elizabethan merchant's house, one of the town's oldest surviving buildings. Steeped in centuries of history, it's no surprise that the building has earned a reputation for being haunted. Whether you're interested in local history, Tudor architecture, or ghost stories, Totnes M

For more than twenty years, I have balanced two great writing passions: biography and ghost stories. I am currently researching and writing my second book about my grandfather, the oldest man to escape from Stalag Luft III during the famous Great Escape of 25 March 1944. More than eight decades later, I am still visiting the places he travelled through, uncovering new photographs, and discovering remarkable details about his life and wartime experiences. The working title of

Since 2005, I've written 104 ghost stories - and I love every one of them. Some are mild and atmospheric, others downright nasty, and a few come with a twist that'll catch you off guard. My favourites are the ones where you're never quite sure who the ghost is, where your assumptions get quietly upended. I write on my ancient laptop, a machine so old it might have Charles Babbage engraved on its worn surface. Published Ghost Story Collections I've had three collections publis

...is a fourth collection of ghost stories entitled ‘Night Gaunts and Psychopomps’. H P Lovecraft suffered from nightmares which he described as ‘night gaunts’. He later used the term in some of his stories. His ancestors came from South Devon; their graves can be found at Buckfastleigh, Berry Pomeroy and Broadhempston. I borrow his term as a tribute to his unique talent in disturbing and terrifying his readers. Psychopomps are guides to the afterlife such as Charon the ferry