Roger Wood: 8 books

Wesley and Rennie are twins, identical, inseparable. They grow up together, bunk off school together, and end up working together, the family business: SCAIFE & SCAIFE - Fish Wet Dried and Fried. Well, Rennie does the frying. Wes is happier behind the scenes, sorting out the tricky business. Originally...

"There was something about Mr Stapleton. Something different. No doubt about it, Mr Edward Stapleton was a man apart."Having first seen Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy in Westminster Hall, Tumbley comes face to face with him twenty years later when he, Tumbley, is a successful barrister on...

A direct continuation of The Saiitii Manifestation, The Relict begins with those left behind by the weird events in Putney. Life is especially hard for the family of Percy Jessop, who cannot access his wealth until either his body is found or seven years have elapsed since his disappearance. Then...

The third instalment of the Carnacki Continuum. After a night of shocks and surprises, the Jessop sisters call in the professionals - the discredited inventor Sir Barnard Buxton and Lorne's friend from the Psycho-Analytic Society, the enigmatic Dr John. They set out to hunt down the inter-dimensional...

If nobody tells you, how can you know? You can guess, you can assume, but without anyone to share your assumptions with, how can you be sure you've guessed right? The arrival of the twins tore a massive hole in Stephen's young life. Uprooted from London to a self-sufficient smallholding in Yorkshire,...

"I awoke this morning with the realisation that I am losing my mind."Paris, 1893: Dr Gaston Daladier's friend and patient, the famous author G, has died. He has left Daladier a legacy - journals which start the good doctor on a quest. He begins to wonder, has he caught G's madness? Or is something else - something much more exotic - invading his dreams and corrupting his body?

Based on characters created by the legendary pioneer of supernatural horror William Hope Hodgson, this short story speculates what might have happened to the ghost-finder and his circle during World War I. In 1919 they meet again after the better part of five years - well, all bar one.

Riley always told him, There are no wolves in Lancashire. But one autumn day Simmon meets a wolf in the woods on the far side of the Platts. He runs back to camp to tell his dad. Riley is not amused. A metamorphic tale from the author of the Twisted Tales series and the Carnacki Continuum.