STRANGE TALES OF A COTSWOLD TOWN by Denys S. Sissons
These are tales dealing with various inexplicable, bizarre and supernatural
happenings in localities around the author’s home town of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
Whilst the names of specific locations and the people involved have been changed
to preserve their anonymity, many will no doubt recognise the settings in the
area.
The tales involve a number of manifestations of the occult; including various
hauntings, a ghostly painting, werewolves, wild children, witch hunts and their
pitiful victims.
Tales of terror, malignancy and revenge, of fearful happenings, sometimes grotesque and quite incredible are written about here in Denys Sissons’ inimitable way. There are references to gallows and ley-lines, and cases where
everything seems so plausible yet frightening that a frisson of horrifying fear
is left behind in the mind of the reader.
Denys S. Sissons
The author attended Allen’s College and the Royal Liberty School in Essex, followed by Wimborne Grammar
School in Dorset. He served in the RAF from 1942-47. He was a sales manager in
the pharmaceutical trade and also for Cadbury-Schweppes over many years.
Following publishing success with short stories in various magazines, he is now committed to his writing career, with further books already in progress.
