The Bane of Bailgate

Award winning author Raven Dane’s love of steampunk, spooky tales and the beautiful, historic city of Lincoln have come together in this novella.A derelict shop along Bailgate has a long history of mysterious and disturbing events. Boarded up and shunned by local people, it lies in wait for the next hopeful owner wanting to restore it.Some people ignore the warnings…they did not choose wisely.

About the Author

Raven Dane is a UK based author of dark fantasy, steampunk novels and horror short stories. Her first books were the dark fantasy Legacy of the Dark Kind trilogy, Blood Tears, Blood Lament and Blood Alliance. These were followed by a High Fantasy spoof, The Unwise Woman of Fuggis Mire. Her steampunk novels so far are the award winning Cyrus Darian and the Technomicron and sequel Cyrus Darian and the Ghastly Horde. She has had many short stories published, including one in a celebration of forty years of the British Fantasy Society and in international horror anthologies. These have included Tales of the Lake 2, alongside Richard Chizmar, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lebbon and the late Jack Ketchum. She also had a story in Frightmare - Women Write Horror which was shortlisted for a Stoker award in 2017. She has appeared in two international lists of best female horror writers. In 2013, she was signed up by Telos Publishing for her collection of Victorian ghost stories, Absinthe and Arsenic and in 2015, the alternative history/ supernatural novel, Death's Dark Wings. All the Cyrus books are with Telos now in new editions with the third book in the series on the way. A lifelong Dr Who fan, in 2017, Raven was on the script writing team on a Dr Who spin off film. She was also involved in the novelisation and had an acting role in the film. Her latest work is the spooky novella, The Bane of Bailgate, published in 2018.

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