Happy Goat Horror

Dark bleatings, my lovely tribe, and Happy St. David’s Day. I have gathered together a bunch of Welsh horror for you fine folk and your dragon-loving ways. No muss, no fuss, just the covers and what they’re about. Enjoy!

In this chilling new collection curated by bestselling horror anthologist Kevin J. Kennedy, five masterful Welsh authors invite you deep into the shadowy heart of Cymru, where ancient myths still breathe and old gods never truly die. Drawing inspiration from the rich, eerie landscape of Welsh folklore, each tale is a haunting journey into a world where the veil between the living and the legendary grows thin. From cursed mountains and ghostly choirs to forgotten beasts lurking in forested glens, Horror Tales From Wales delivers dread steeped in history, myth, and blood. These five brand new stories are as lyrical as they are terrifying—blending timeless superstition with modern fears, and reminding us that in Wales, the past is never truly buried.
Come for the folklore. Stay for the nightmares.

The cruellest game. The highest stakes. Only she can bring his family back alive …

Rose is the one that got away. She was the prey in a human trophy hunt organised by an elite secret organisation for super-rich clients seeking a unique thrill. She paid a terrible price. Every moment since she has been planning her revenge … And now her day has come.

Chris returns from his morning run to find his wife and children missing and a stranger in his kitchen.

He’s told to run.

If he’s caught and killed, his family go free. If he escapes, they die.

Rose is the only one who can help him, but Rose only has her sights on one conclusion. For her, Chris is bait. But The Trail have not forgotten the woman who tried to outwit them.

The Trail want Rose. The hunters want Chris’s corpse. Rose wants revenge, and Chris just wants his family back.

The hunt is on …

Ali Hussain, a student in Aberystwyth with an unusual past, suffers from migraines and sleep paralysis. Bit by bit, they’re taking over his life, chipping away at his sanity until something emerges from the darkness, something malevolent. It wants freedom to roam the earth, and the only way to get it is through Ali. When the lives of those closest to him are threatened, he is forced to face the lurking terror head-on. With his life and sanity on the line, Ali faces a race against time to stop this ominous threat and sever its tether before its darkness can seep into our world.

There is something wrong with the house. Something far beyond creaking floorboards and woodworm.

Ordinarily, Paige Daniels embraces the challenges that come with having a parent serving in the military. However, when her family are posted to the sleepy Welsh island of Ynys Mon, Paige discovers that their new quarter comes with a grislier history than most.

Plagued by an unknown entity with a malicious streak, Paige must join the pieces of a decades old puzzle if she hopes to save the ones she loves…

Philip and Quin believe climbing Snowdon at night will be a worthy challenge.

If they knew the local legends they wouldn’t go at night, as there’s a reason the Welsh call Snowdon Yr Wyddfa — The Burial Ground — which Philip and Quin are about to find out the hard way…

Sometimes the dead do not stay dead, and the living are not who they say they are.

It is 1981, Dylan Wolfendale’s first year in Comprehensive school, but it’s not just the bullies he needs to worry about. It’s the dead.

Able to traverse realms with ease, Dylan soon discovers that he’s destined to escort souls to the afterlife.

The peace of Draigwen, Wales, becomes shattered. People are being murdered; their bodies decomposing in seconds, rather than days. Unwilling to believe that there are dead men walking, the police are baffled.

Dark shadows become real, bodies are snatched, and a supernatural demon rampages through Draigwen. The realm of the dead is slowly being breached, and supernatural events cause an unlikely partnership between Dylan, his school friends, and police officer, Fiona Brasking.

Can they stop what is already dead?

Once upon a time, in lands far, far away, everyone lived happily ever after. Until now. If you thought you knew the fairytales well, think again. In a modern world without morals, where beauty does not always equal goodness and evil sometimes wins, the heroes of the legends learn the hard way that survival will take more than just a pretty face, and a handsome prince does not mean salvation. Ten broken fairytales that are definitely not for children’s bedtime.

The old gods are dead …
The OLDER gods have returned!

Before the American master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft came the Welsh genius of the weird Arthur Machen, who filled his pages with tales of ancient evil.

Now comes this collection of seven NEW stories from the ancient land of Machen, following in the footsteps of Lovecraft and his uncanny creations.

Featuring original stories by:

J. L. George
Mark Howard Jones
Paul Lewis
John Llewellyn Probert
C. M. Saunders
Charles Wilkinson

Shameless self-promotion! This is my wee little collection of apocalyptic horror and horror comedy stories.

In this new collection of eleven stories, Stephen Volk explores the wide span of possibilities of the ghost story in its various manifestations—from hauntings set in the quotidian modern world, to ones that hark back to traditional, but no less chilling, tales of the past.

When battle-scarred army veterans are recruited for an archaeological dig in Wiltshire, more than bones are unearthed, in ‘Unrecovered’. A pleasure park becomes anything but pleasurable in ‘Three Fingers, One Thumb’. In ‘31/10’ a notorious, fateful BBC TV studio is revisited, while in ‘The Waiting Room’ a supernatural encounter makes Charles Dickens himself come to question both his creative inspiration and his fundamental beliefs.

Three brand new stories are included here: ‘The Crossing’, ‘Baby on Board’, and ‘Lost Loved Ones’—the latter novella being a sequel to Volk’s television series Afterlife and a welcome return for him to the much-loved character of Alison Mundy, the troubled psychic medium, in a world post-Covid.

As with the rest of the book, these have the author’s trademark mixture of ‘horror and heartbreak’ (Nathan Ballingrud); qualities that have earned him praise as ‘one of our genre’s foremost practitioners in the short form’ (Peter Tennant, Black Static) and ‘one of the most provocative and unsettling of contemporary writers’ (Andy Hedgecock, Interzone).

A teenager bullied for her gender identity, a gang member haunted by the deeds of his past, a woman trapped in an abusive relationship, struggling to keep a secret that could endanger her life… Wish Upon a Dark Star compiles eleven tales of terror in Richard Clive’s follow up to his critically acclaimed debut collection, Strange Frequencies. Introduced by award-winning author Bridgett Nelson, Wish Upon a Dark Star serves up an array of cosmic horror, splatterpunk gore, and dark fantasy that will keep you awake long after you have turned the final page.

Bleeeeat!