John Washbourne – författare

Blood Eagle is a horror novel drawing on ancient Norse Myth and Russian legend, set on a remote Irish island in the late 1960s.Light house men save a young woman washed ashore in a storm. But the young woman is not what she seems. Soon they and the islanders are faced with the young woman''s supernatural pursuers. They are trapped inside the lighthouse with an ancient evil, while outside wait the most feared warriors in history – a thousand years older: a thousand years more deadlyBlood Eagle is a horror novel set in the second half of the twentieth century. It draws together mythical beings from Scandinavia and Russia. These opposing dark forces have been locked together in an eternal quest for vengeance, culminating in a blood soaked struggle for immortality. Blood Eagle is the first novel in the series exploring the tales of these Ghost Warriors who haunt the seas.

Black Valley is The Wicker Man meets Silent Hill: a dark fantasy novel drawing on ancient Celtic Myth and grounded in post-industrial North Wales.1918: The Manager of a Welsh slate quarry at Cwm Du (Black Valley) pushes ahead with plans to open up a new slate face in a natural cavern in the mountains, despite the protests of his workers and the wise woman of the village, the Druidess Myfanwy. The resulting explosion not only unleashes underground water to flood the quarry killing hundreds of quarrymen, it also brings with it the ancient race from the Otherworld below: Gwyllion. To save the world from the wrath of the Gwyllion and the pestilence they carry, Myfanwy seals Cwm Du from the outside world: Cwm Du becomes a forgotten lost valley shrouded in myth, guarded by her daughter, Becca, the new Druidess.2020: a hundred years later: Becca''s only female descendant, Laura, is bequeathed a cottage in the village of Cwm Du, beside the now flooded quarry. Laura travels to the cottage with her boyfriend Jimmy. Laura and Jimmy enter Cwm Du to find a place where the Gwyllion are suddenly returning, threatening the inhabitants and the outside world. Laura''s unexpected role is to become the next Druidess, but can she do so and save the world when the Gwyllion are at her door? "Nothing can hold back the Otherworld: Except You"

Witch Sight: Modern City – Ancient VengeanceSince before history, before Mankind ruled the world, older ancient gods roamed the earth. On the east coast of Ireland a warrior creature, The Shannow ruled supreme and was worshipped as a god. But with the coming of the Celtic Saints The Shannow was driven underground to the Otherworld, the realm beneath our own. There The Shannow resided with all else which is no longer welcome in our world – the older races, The Dead and the other Old Gods.Since that time, those with the Witch Sight, the ability to see the beings of the Otherworld, have learned how to communicate with The Shannow. In Ireland those with the witch sight are a family of women, known as The Morrigan, and over time The Morgains. Over centuries they have called on The Shannow to avenge the deaths of innocents in the cruel world above.Today in Dublin, Sarah Morgain, the last of her family, reads the Tarot to tourists. When her childhood friend Mary''s son is murdered by a gang of drug dealers, Sarah Morgain raises The Shannow to avenge his death. Witch Sight is a dark fantasy drawing together the myths and supernatural inheritances of the Celtic nations, set in contemporary Dublin.Witch Sight tells a dark story of the arcane practices which is still alive in this modern metropolis.The mythology of Witch Sight is based on the Borderland Mythology, underpinning in a number of our projects at Garland Stone, including Borderland, Black Valley and Folk Devil.