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The Wretched

Name: The Wretched
Author: David.E.Gates

David.E.Gates 2 stories

Horror,Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Serial Killer, Psychopath, Psychopathic Killer, Horror, Presidential Assassination, Criminal Mind, Mutilation

Summary

A teenage boy explores the forbidden areas of his home town and gives life to a new evil that stalks him and his friends and family with vengeance in mind. Whilst grappling with the onset of puberty, he must battle the shape-changing menace which haunts his dreams and knows no bounds in its savagery whilst coming to terms with his own metamorphosis. A unique horror story, drawing inspiration from local folklore, set in and around Portsmouth.

Genre: Horror

Author: David.E.Gates

Status: Complete

Chapters: 39

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

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Foreword

I was born in Portsmouth and grew up in Stamshaw.

I loved to explore the harbours, scrapyards and dockyards that were in and around Portsmouth – sometimes trespassing into those sites to further my own sense of adventure. Not knowing how dangerous the sites we explored could be was part of the innocence of my youth.

Since my early teenage years, I’ve written short stories, film reviews, poems, scripts, novellas and books. It seemed fitting that a story filled with memories of my teenage years, albeit embellished with fictional aspects, should be set in and around the areas I grew up.

Some of the locations are since long-gone. Others have been developed and are unrecognisable as the places I once knew. Some you will recognise, especially if you were in Portsmouth and Southsea during the seventies and eighties.

I hope that as well as a unique horror story, The Wretched will provide you with some pleasant memories of places from a time that already, to me, seems so long ago.

Enjoy.

David E. Gates

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