Kate Murray
Author and Artist

Kate's first collection of short stories ‘The Phantom Horse’ was published in December 2013 and she subsequently has had another collection published by Raging Aardvark; “Love Just Is” looks at the truth of love, in all its guises from romantic to obsessive.


Her third collection ghost stories are also published by Raging Aardvark. 

The Phantom Horse on Amazon

A series of short stories and flash fiction from horror to romance. Everything needed for an adult book of fairy tales and stories. 

Titles include: 
"The Phantom Horse" - nightmare or premonition 
"Love and Mud" - a romance on a Welsh smallholding 
"Trapped in Amber" - unique earrings with a twist 

In all there are 32 stories in the book which is 110 pages long.

Love Just Is on Amazon

What is love? The Ancient Greeks knew. Realising there are so many types of love, they gave a name to each one. 

In Love Just Is each meaning is explored by short stories. Some are obvious and comforting, some shocking and some disturbingly unpleasant. 
Eros explores romance and passion. 

Ludus looks at love as a game. 
Storge, where family means everything. 
Mania sees love as art and obsession. 
Pragma allows you to shop for love. 
Agape is always selfless. 
Philia is an act of friendship. 

The anthology includes 22 stories; 130 pages and 7 illustrations

Shadows Close on AMazon

In October 1983, something happened in Shadows Close. The dead-end road was subject to a week of horror that left the inhabitants shaking with terror. This book documents that week and what happened to each resident. 

Unlike other short story collections, the characters appear throughout the book as each household lives through its own terror. Shadows Close has ghosts, killers and heroes; be warned that it is advisable not to read it after sunset. 

A young boy decides to protect his mother at all cost; a house slips into the floodplain; a couple find themselves reliving a story that is a hundred years old; a ghost, who killed its own mother, is threatened; a man tries to save his family from the evil which is steadily crawling toward his house. 

Written in the lean style of dirty realism the short stories are awash with fear and horror. Set within the confines of one street the stories have a strong narrative framework that allows the location to become as much a character as any of the people in the stories. The threshold has been crossed and Shadows Close is the boundary where the human character is placed under a darkly tinted glass.

Raging Aardvark Publishing

Mary marries a man picked by her mother, a marriage of convenience, yet sixteen years later she realises that she has to run. Except when she gets home she finds herself fighting to keep her family together and to save her son. She has to decide what lengths she will go to in order to protect him…

Bitsy walks off a plane to find that Heathrow airport is nearly abandoned. She and two men manage to run, but as they do they find themselves in an apocalyptic Britain where humans have become an endangered species and the world is ruled by The Gone. Can they get to the WHO before it is too late? 

The Gone is a gritty apocalyptic horror that began as a serialised blog at https://thegone.wordpress.com/. It slowly evolved into the novel with the help of readers, giving rise to a very different Britain that is a challenge to survive in.

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