Gareth Latimer

The Ingshall Chronicles: (The Complete Ingshall Series) Gareth Latimer

Publisher Marketing: Set in deepest, darkest Norfolk, the Ingshall Series consists of five stories centering around the abnormal inhabitants of Ingshall, formerly known as Fethersham. Owen Phillips is a necrophiliac who lives with Elizabeth, his mummified girlfriend. Mary Cowan is a spiritualist medium who acts as their intermediary. Kern and Kerri Miller are the pagan hippy couple who run the village pub. Sarah's Church: Pete Croft never stopped having nightmares about the ancient ruined church, where he witnessed a fatal motorcycle crash and a sinister phantom at the age of seven. Twenty-five years later, he resolves to get to the bottom of his fears, and confront the mysterious presence that has terrified him ever since. The Lady in the Chapel: Clinically depressed Owen Phillips escapes his miserable life in London by moving into a converted chapel in the isolated Norfolk village of Ingshall, where he discovers a mummified woman in a burial vault beneath his living room and falls in love with her. The Witch's Cottage: Owen and Elizabeth, find their 'lives' disrupted when a television crew arrive in Ingshall to film an archaeological dig. Mary gets to pitch her idea for a 'Dead Celebrity' chat show to a TV executive. The Ingshall Mermaid: Kern develops an obsession with mermaids and the Aquatic Ape Theory, after learning that such a creature may have been found washed up on Ingshall's shore in the late 1820s and buried in the grounds of St Margaret's Chapel. The Mummified Bride: Owen the necrophiliac finally gets to marry Elizabeth, his deceased beloved. Unfortunately, he has chosen a day when Ingshall receives unwanted attention from the outside world in the form of two hardened criminals.