Jack Hansard Bonus Content

A Very Uncanny Christmas
A FREE eBook available to download from most online retailers. When Jack Hansard takes a break from hawking dodgy magic wares to go home for Christmas, he expects to suffer through a painfully normal family reunion. However, it soon become obvious his family is under some kind of Christmas curse. Jack must face sinister singalongs, enchanted toys, and possibly even Santa Claus himself to get to the bottom of the mystery and save Christmas . . . Or at least, save his family from Christmas.

Lockdown Blues
A Jack Hansard short story written during the coronavirus lockdown of 2020. This story imagines how our favourite occult merchant and crotchety Welsh coblyn might have handled the absurd reality of lockdown themselves.

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Horror

Ecstatic Birth
A short psychological horror about birth, trauma… and maybe monsters.

Ecstatic Birth – Audio
My story was adapted into audio by The NoSleep Podcast and can be listened to for free in Episode 18, Season 17.

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Flash Fiction

Denizens Of The Deep Dark
Previously published in Copperfield Review Quarterly, this flash fiction triad explores spectres of industrial mining folklore, from helpful knockers to ghostly bluecaps and the sinister presence of Cutty Soames.

Sieg oder Tod: Victory or Death
Gunfire and smoke: a first-hand account of the battle of Waterloo.

The Nip-Slip
A humorous piece of flash fiction.

Sepia
Micro-fiction: a photograph.

Exultation
Micro-fiction: a lonely gargoyle.

Selkie
Micro-fiction: an ocean myth.

 

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