It has been 10 years since the events in the small picturesque town of Eden. Lives were forever altered as two newcomers found the courage to peek behind the curtain and bring Tolan Christian"s reign to a violent end as the town burned around them.
No-one was more affected than Sarah-Jane Mears. The once bubbly ball of good nature is now a shadow of the former woman she used to be. After travelling to try and find a new home she has eventually settled in Northern England. She has taken a teaching position at Ravenhill Academy, an exclusive private school.
But now there is a new student who has just transferred. A young American boy who is strangely familiar and oddly charismatic. As the school breaks for the Christmas holidays the harsh winter weather has cut them off from the outside world. Sarah is starting to learn that Ravenhill is an old building seemingly with a life and an energy of its own, one that is slowly stirring.
She is going to realise that not all lessons are learnt in the cla.s.sroom and that some secrets won"t stay buried.
"Gated II: Ravenhill Academy is as good a suspense thriller as any written by the big name authors. Indeed, it could serve as the Indie Publishing Poster Child" READERS" FAVORITE
"If you read Gated & loved it, then I know you will enjoy this book. The ending leaves us with an opening for a third book which I"m sure is what you want!" HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS
ASYLUM 13 TALES OF TERROR A US Horror Chart #5 best seller Voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review"s Top 10 Books of 2013 & a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal winner Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.
Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author"s career. Sidelined through a car crash"s injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.
He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital"s patients.
A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.
As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.
"Matt Drabble is nothing short of a genius when it comes to painting a picture of his characters. This novel was sensational! I started reading and couldn"t stop" LITTLE BLOG OF HORROR "Consistently very, very strong like Stephen King, or Clive Barker, there"s simply no telling what the man will deliver in a package of this nature" HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS
"It takes skill to make the short story format work and Matt Drabble has mastered it as he is able to establish both character and story in a matter of pages while conveying a sense of horror and terror" REELYBORED.COM.
"Turn down the lights, turn off the TV and cuddle up with these stories tonight - talk about being afraid of the dark!" BOOK FIDELITY.
OTHER BOOKS BY MATT DRABBLE.
See end of book for details.
GATED.
GATED II: Ravenhill Academy.
ASYLUM 13 Tales of Terror.
AFTER DARKNESS FALLS: Volume One AFTER DARKNESS FALLS: Volume Two ABRA-CADAVER.
THE TRAVELLING MAN.
THE MONTAGUE PORTRAIT.