Craig Gerard Ferguson – författare

They came to Highgate Cemetery searching for a hidden library. They left as something else entirely.In 1849, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë slip into London's most infamous graveyard chasing rumors of a forbidden occult archive buried beneath the tombs. What they find instead is an ancient vampire lord named Charles Baudelaire, awakened from a crypt older than the city itself, and a bite that changes everything.Transformed but unbroken, the sisters swear a blood oath: they will never become the monsters that made them. Armed with silver katanas, steel claws, and an armored hearse named Heathcliff, they wage a gothic war beneath London's fog-choked streets against feral vampire broods, reanimated corpses, occult cultists, and Baudelaire himself, a poet-aristocrat convinced the Brontë bloodline is destined to serve an ambition eighty years in the making.But Baudelaire's true plan reaches far beyond three sisters. Buried deep beneath the city sleeps something older than vampirism itself, and every ritual, every feast, every seduction has been leading toward its waking.Sassy, savage, and soaked in candlelight and blood, Vampires of Highgate reimagines England's most beloved literary sisters as reluctant monster hunters fighting to keep their humanity while the city they love burns around them. Fast, pulpy, cinematic gothic horror for anyone who ever wondered what the Brontës might have done with a sword.Perfect for fans of penny dreadfuls, Hammer horror, and Victorian London gone gloriously wrong.

In 1692, a raiding party burned York, Maine to the ground, killed the town's own minister at his front door, and marched eighty of its people into the Canadian wilderness. It would not be the town's only reckoning with violence.Guilty of Cruelty traces four centuries of law, war, and punishment in one of America's oldest towns. From a 1644 hanging built on rumor and a corpse's ordinary decay, to a colonial court that convicted a slaveholder of nothing worse than "e;cruelty"e; for beating a woman named Rachel to death, to the stone dungeon that still stands on Lindsay Road today. It follows the captives, the condemned, the executioners, and the ministers whose own guilt would later inspire Nathaniel Hawthorne.Drawing on court records, provincial archives, and recent archaeology, this history separates what York actually did from what three centuries of monuments, pamphlets, and ghost tours have since claimed it did and asks what an honest reckoning with that difference actually requires.

Elias is forty-nine, a night janitor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, carrying a guitar he can't play and a box of cassette tapes he can't listen to. Thirty years ago, a betrayal he never got the chance to apologize for ended in a car crash on Memorial Drive. Every night since, he's visited her grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery and said the same four words to a stone that never answers. Then one gray October dawn, she's there — sitting on the grass beside her own headstone, twenty years old, warm-handed, exactly as she looked the last night he saw her alive. He brings her home. At first, it's everything he's spent three decades grieving: her laugh, her stories, the easy warmth he thought he'd buried with her. But the stories don't change. They repeat, word for word, laugh for laugh, like a tape looping on the same groove. And when the stories run out, she crosses to the darkest corner of the apartment and simply stops — no breath, no blink, no reflection in any mirror in the house — until he learns exactly what she needs from him to come back. As the days pass, Elias grows paler. Thinner. His own reflection starts to fade at the edges. Hers gets warmer, more solid, more *alive* — and he begins to understand that whatever this is, it was never a resurrection. It's an exchange, running on rules neither of them agreed to, and the terms are almost paid in full. A slow-burn psychological horror novel. A Stillness in the Dark is a story about grief, guilt, and the particular danger of getting exactly what you asked for.

Step through the gates of one of the world's most famous cemeteries — and learn to read it the way its Victorian visitors once did.Highgate Cemetery has been many things across nearly two centuries: a commercial solution to a Victorian sanitation crisis, a fashionable status symbol for London's rising middle class, a nearly abandoned ruin swallowed by ivy, the epicenter of a bizarre 1970s vampire panic, and finally a rescued heritage site saved by ordinary volunteers with hand tools and nothing but determination.Structured as a guided walking tour and narrated by a scholarly, gleefully morbid historian-guide, HIGHGATE takes you through twenty chapters covering:• The Egyptian Avenue and the Victorian fashion for borrowed antiquity• The Circle of Lebanon, built in a ring around a cedar older than the cemetery itself• The full, unsentimental economics of Victorian death — what a grave actually cost, and what that meant• The coded language of mourning: broken columns, reversed torches, angels who won't meet your eye• Karl Marx, George Eliot, and Michael Faraday — three very different graves, three very different arguments about what a monument is for• The infamous "e;Highgate Vampire"e; panic of 1970, and how a derelict cemetery became a tabloid sensation• The volunteer rescue that saved the cemetery from ruin, grave by grave, ivy strand by ivy strand• The cemetery as it exists today — still receiving burials, still selling plots, still very much aliveThis is not a dry academic survey. It's a walk — through iron gates, sunken avenues, and quiet unconsecrated ground — told by a guide who finds the whole business of Victorian death genuinely, unapologetically fascinating, and wants you to feel the same way by the time you reach the gate again.For readers of Victorian social history, London history, cemetery and mortuary studies, and anyone who has ever wondered what a headstone is actually trying to tell you.

Two days after Edgar Allan Poe died in a Baltimore hospital in 1849, a rival editor named Rufus Griswold published an obituary calling him a friendless, godless drunk — and then spent years afterward forging letters and doctoring the record to make the lie stick. That fabrication became the "e;official"e; Poe for the next century, bundled into the collected works Griswold controlled as his literary executor.Midnight Dreary tells the real story, chronologically, from Poe's birth to two touring actors in 1809 through his mysterious death forty years later — the university gambling debts and the West Point court-martial he engineered himself; the invention of the detective story and the collapse of American magazine economics that kept him broke even at the height of his fame; his marriage to his young cousin Virginia and the grief that followed her death; and the still-unresolved five days in Baltimore before he was found delirious, in someone else's clothes, at a tavern doubling as a polling place.Along the way, the record consistently contradicts the myth: a Sergeant Major who earned his rank; an editor who grew two magazines' circulation dramatically; a critic feared across the literary world; a man documented, again and again, as genuinely loved by the people closest to him. This is a biography that corrects the record without swinging to hagiography — Poe was difficult, often his own worst enemy, and undone as much by a broken publishing economy and a hostile executor as by anything in his own character.

Some gifts are inherited. Others arrive as whispers.When Craig Gerard Ferguson began noticing impossible coincidences, meaningful dreams, and quiet signs that seemed to come from loved ones beyond the veil, he discovered that the greatest lessons in witchcraft were not found in ancient grimoires—they were already woven into family, memory, grief, and everyday life.The Inheritance is an intimate memoir and gentle spiritual guide that explores ancestral wisdom, intuition, signs from the other side, nature-based magic, and the healing power of ritual. With warmth, honesty, and quiet reflection, Ferguson invites readers to see the sacred hidden within ordinary moments—a honeybee that appears at just the right time, a candle that seems to answer a prayer, the comforting presence of those who continue to love us beyond death.Whether you practice witchcraft, follow a spiritual path, or simply long to believe that love never truly disappears, The Inheritance offers comfort, hope, and a reminder that the most meaningful magic is often the kind we inherit.A thoughtful memoir for readers interested in:- Witchcraft and modern spirituality- Signs from loved ones in spirit- Ancestral wisdom and family traditions- Ritual, intuition, and healing- Finding hope through grief