But then, one night, they are visited…and their ordeal really begins, one that defies all explanation. A book with my name on it may crop up once a year, sometimes with even longer breaks, so it’s easy to think I while away my hours drinking in the local pub or wandering the world, watching the clouds pass by.

A new paperback edition of Testimony, the book that inspired the hit BBC podcast The Witch Farm, will be on sale soon. Such an odd story about Heol Fanog and living there for over 7 years during which he and his family stayed.

She says, “Bill’s paintings have never been exhibited, which I feel is sad, as he was an unusually talented artist. Once his debut short story earned him a Best New Author award, Chadbourn quit journalism to concentrate on writing his stories. All of it contributed to the art that he laboured over all his life, all of it, in some way, haunted. For me, one of the most interesting aspects of reading non-fiction by one of my favourite fiction authors, is picking up on the themes that have informed his more recent work.

Mark has been described as 'a contemporary bard - a post-industrial Taliesin whose visionary novels are crammed with remixed mythologies, oneiric set pieces, potent symbols, unsettling imagery and an engaging fusion of genre elements. I never felt that as a reader I was being pushed in any particular direction regarding what I should think or feel about what was going on.According to Testimony, the booked penned by Mark Chadbourn, the author/journalist who appears in True Horror, Burks arrived at the Rich home and soon identified a mysterious “pre-Christian” presence. The Grant Mansion in Beacon Hill is said to be haunted and the most obvious place to find the truth. But mostly praise the decision to reclaim horror for all those people who prefer a little meat on old bones.