STALKING
Sarah England
Copyright
© 2016 by Sarah England
It happens all the time – you’re being watched. How does it
make you feel? Annoyed? Scared? What if that person takes it to an
exceptionally intrusive level and decides to disrupt your life…and there is
nothing, absolutely nothing, you can do about it? Why? Well, because no one
believes you. And even if they do, they’ll no doubt say something along the
lines of, ‘it’s probably harmless’!
So when is it
stalking?
Take a friend of mine –
and this goes back a good few years now. Let’s call her Karen! Well Karen became
pretty good at her job, and a perfectly polite, ordinary-looking woman
befriended her. They shared a few confidences and had a couple of laughs, but
it wasn’t long before every time she looked up from her desk Karen would find
this woman (let’s call her Sandi) staring at her very intensely. She’d smile
and look away…but uneasiness crept in. And soon, everywhere Karen went so did
Sandi. It was a tad irritating, that was all. It wasn’t, however, until she
applied for promotion that she realised it might be more serious.
The interviewer
apologised to Karen for not being able to take ‘your friend Sandi’s’
application further. Karen frowned, somewhat puzzled. Later, after she had been
appointed, she was told over an informal coffee that Sandi had written to each
member of the interviewing panel stating Karen would like her to be promoted
too. She denied this but felt a little embarrassed so let it pass. A few weeks
afterwards a client mentioned in an email, ‘your friend Sandi keeps asking me
to review her work and I just don’t have time – please would you have a word?’ Karen
now switched on her antennae and discretely asked around. It seemed most of her
friends on social media, a few clients, and now some of her personal friends, all
had similar experiences. Annoying, she thought, but not threatening as such.
Some even suggested she should be flattered. Sandi then dyed her hair the same
shade as Karen and began to wear her make-up in a similar style and shop in the
same stores.
Karen started to
distance herself. But Sandi had only just got going. Karen would be in a bar on
a Saturday night, look up and see Sandi watching her. Her mobile would ring and
click off. Her home phone rang in the
middle of the night. Everyone around her said Sandi was harmless…had a bit of a
girl crush. It was nothing. But was it?
When her latest project
was hijacked by Sandi, who claimed the idea as her own during a meeting; and
when she discovered some of the more unpleasant aspects of her past life had
been shared with colleagues, who now seemed very friendly with Sandi, things
began to take a more sinister turn. Karen tried to shut down some of the social
media avenues to Sandi, at which point matters dramatically escalated. Malicious
one-line emails from various addresses pinged into her inbox with lines such
as, ‘What you dish out will come back to you a hundred fold, Karen.’ Demands to
have it out were issued verbally when she was alone - always when she was
alone. Which was why no one believed her when she said a car was parked outside
her house at 4am shining headlights through her bedroom window; or phone calls
from call boxes or mobiles came every hour on the hour all through the night.
It wore her down. She took what little evidence she could to the police, but it
carried on for three years, during which time Karen’s relationship broke down,
she moved house and moved jobs…
Stalking? You betcha!
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Ruby is the most violently disturbed
patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of
northern England. With no improvement after two years, Dr. Jack McGowan finally
decides to take a risk and hypnotises her. With terrifying consequences.
A horrific dark force is now unleashed on the entire medical team, as each in turn attempts to unlock Ruby's shocking and sinister past. Who is this girl? And how did she manage to survive such unimaginable evil? Set in a desolate ex-mining village, where secrets are tightly kept and intruders hounded out, their questions soon lead to a haunted mill, the heart of darkness...and The Father of Lies.
A horrific dark force is now unleashed on the entire medical team, as each in turn attempts to unlock Ruby's shocking and sinister past. Who is this girl? And how did she manage to survive such unimaginable evil? Set in a desolate ex-mining village, where secrets are tightly kept and intruders hounded out, their questions soon lead to a haunted mill, the heart of darkness...and The Father of Lies.
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Following the hypnosis of violently
disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on
the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team
remains - Ward Sister, Becky.
Despite her fiancé, D.I. Ross, being
unconscious and many of her colleagues either dead or critically ill, Becky is
determined to rescue Ruby's twelve year old daughter from a similar fate to her
mother. But no one asking questions in the desolate mining village Ruby
descends from ever comes to a good end. And as the diabolical history of the
area is gradually revealed, it seems the evil invoked is now both real and
contagious.
Don't turn the lights!
UPCOMING
Magda
The dark and twisted
community of Woodsend harbours a terrible secret – one tracing back to the age
of the Elizabethan witch hunts, when many innocent women were persecuted and
hanged.
But there is a far
deeper vein of horror running through this village; an evil that once invoked
has no intention of relinquishing its grip on the modern world. Rather it
watches and waits with a focused intelligence, leaving Ward Sister, Becky, and
Police Officer, Toby, constantly checking over their shoulders and jumping at
shadows.
Just who invited in this
malevolent presence? And is the demonic woman who possessed Magda back in the
sixteenth century, the same one now gazing at Becky whenever she looks in the
mirror?
You may need to sleep
with the lights on after reading this…Are you ready to meet Magda in this final
instalment to the trilogy? Are you sure?
AUTHOR BIO
Sarah England is a fiction writer based in
the UK. To date she has over 160 short stories and serials published in
magazines and newspapers around the world. However, back in the dark ages Sarah
qualified as a nurse in Sheffield before going on to work in the pharmaceutical
industry and specialising in mental health – a recurring theme in many of her
stories.
Then in 2013 everything changed. After meeting a lady who inspired her to
write ‘Father of Lies’, Sarah became hooked on occult horror and now has a
trilogy in the genre. ‘Tanners Dell’ was the second in the series, and ‘Magda’
is the final part – due for release on Halloween! All three books will also
soon be available on audio with Tantor.com (and amazon) as well as already
being on Kindle and in paperback. Up to date information can be found on
Sarah’s blog and social media sites. Please do sign up for the newsletter if
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A little more information on the style of
occult horror: this is rooted in the true account of a person who suffered
horrifically as a child from ritual satanic abuse. It is not gratuitous…but
focuses on the creeping horror of closed societies living in fear, and the
results of dabbling in the dark arts. All characters and personal stories
contained are fictitious, but it is important to know that this does still go
on - a fact which makes these books all the more terrifying. Best sleep with
the lights on after reading…
Awesome...Having been a victim of a Stalker the fear feels all to real. Vitina
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