Richard Ayre: 5 books

An ordinary man. An age old evil. A blood soaked nightmare with no escape. When reporter Phil Sturgess hears of a new rock band called Minstrel's Bargain, his life descends into horror. As the city he lives in succumbs to ever more violent and macabre episodes of shocking murders and barbarous acts...

‘I forgot. How the hell could I forget?’ ‘You forgot because you had to.’ Newcastle upon Tyne: 1999 Phil Sturgess is struggling on. He has just turned forty, the magazine he owns is going down the pan and his wife may, just may, be having an affair. Sturgess feels lost...

'Evil never disappears. It just changes its appearance…' Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. Phil Sturgess is doing well. His life is good and he's realised that turning sixty isn't all that bad after all. But when a message arrives from his forgotten past, Sturgess is once more thrown...

"A gripping sci-fi chiller" In the city of Newcastle, people are dying. And not through natural causes. Something is burning them. Turning them to ashes, seemingly in an instant. Tasked with investigating these deaths, fire expert Ian Fenwick finds himself drawn into the murky world...

From the author of Minstrel's Bargain and Point of Contact come ten tales of horror, sci-fi and darkness. A man realises what love can do. And how terrifying that can be. A ghostly tale set in the underground world of Victorian Britain A demon on the look out for a new place of...