Richard M Pearson

Reading has always been a passion of mine. I love authors who build up a feeling of tension and foreboding in their books. Bram Stoker's Dracula is a classic example. More recently, I have added The Woman in Black by Susan Hill and Dark Matter by Michelle Paver to my list of favourite stories. So far, I have published eight books, the most recent two being dark short story collections, A Shadow on the Loch and A Ghost in the Glen. Each one contains seven macabre tales set in Scotland. Porcelain was my previous book. This is a tale of one man’s journey across Scotland, desperately trying to escape the porcelain lady who follows his every move. My first two books, The Path and Deadwater, are ghost stories that will hopefully take you on a lonely journey into the deep corners of your imagination. I want the reader to feel that they are the main characters in the book, so you have no choice but to turn each page with a mixture of hope, anticipation, and fear. Maybe then you too can become lost in the isolated forests and dark, forlorn Gothic Mansions. My third novel, Broken Leaves, is a tale of self-destruction and revenge. How many of us have a dark past that we hope will never come back to haunt us? This book was followed by A Season for Ghosts. Nine macabre tales from the deep shadows of Scotland. After this came Scotland Shall Burn. It follows the outcome of a fictional Scottish student independence uprising in the 1960s. The ghost of William Wallace haunts the background of this tragic tale. Things go wrong when the young people of a Borders village decide to invade England and take over the town of Berwick. The story mixes Love, tragedy, horror, and even black humour. . A lonely week-long trek across the forests and mountains of Scotland inspired me to write my first book. Of course, I had talked about doing this for years, and finally, in my fifties, I sat down and typed the first words. From that point on, there could be no return.