Soul Asylum

Ravens Retreat harbours a sinister secret. Inside its blackened heart lurk the ghosts of patients and staff who died when the asylum was burned down in 1904. Over a hundred years later, the West wing survives and now the patients want revenge. Their eternal repose is disturbed by a malevolent poltergeist and the ghost tours led by the asylum’s resident, Phineas Soul, which attract the attention of journalist Mason Strider. His attempts to expose Phineas as a fraud have catastrophic consequences when it’s Ravens Retreat’s dark heart that’s exposed as it awakens to claim the lives of those who dare to enter its brutal past. Short listed for the National Self-publishing Awards 2012. Edited 2016.