Carter is a teacher in London. One night he steps out into an autumnal storm and, on the way to his car, the oncoming night engulfs him and transports him to another, more sinister world. Almost immediately he senses he isn’t alone. When he turns and sees a shadowy figure approaching, he launches himself at the stranger. He soon discovers that Paul, the handsome Australian man pinned beneath him, is in a similar state of disorientated bewilderment. Together they begin to explore their surroundings, hoping and praying they can find a way back home. What they are about to encounter will send terror coursing through their veins. Little do they know this is a mere taste of the nightmare to come. Will their growing feelings for each other survive what follows? Can they themselves survive?

The Collection

He squatted by the tub of potatoes and began peeling, amassing quite a pile of skins in next to no time. Yet it didn’t seem to matter how many he peeled, the tub never seemed any emptier, although it sure beat wasting away in a cold, damp cell.


Not long after he’d begun peeling he noticed that through the legs of the vampire guard he could see the smallest sliver of daylight. It was a sight that set his heart racing. He dared to look again and saw that beyond the doorway was a garden. He kept looking down at what he was doing, but couldn’t help stealing surreptitious glances at the outside world just a few metres away. He began plotting. Two guards wouldn’t be so difficult to dispatch with a knife, not when there were five men.


His thoughts were interrupted by someone barking at him from the other end of the kitchen. It was the roly-poly man whose face was red from the steam coming up from the pots of boiling vegetables.


Chapter 17