Tales from Badgers Crossing
Tales from Badgers Crossing
“Welcome to Badgers Crossing
So says the sign on the road into town. If you’re in a car, you might not have time to make out the smaller text beneath it as you trundle past:
BE CAREFULL HOW YOU GO IN OUR TOWN”
Please note this is a pre-order, your copy of Tales from Badgers Crossing will be with you from 20th May, publication day. All pre-orders will receive a complementary novella eBook, Bait by Paul Childs, emailed to you separately to your order confirmation.
In a quiet corner of the British countryside, somewhere between the windy west coast and rugged hills to the east, you will find Badgers Crossing. An uncanny, sometimes sinister town, often dubbed The Most Haunted Town in Britain. Have you ever been there?
Paul Childs’ debut collection of horrifying tales was inspired by horror comics and ghost stories of his 1980s youth, Childs has grown the fictional town of Badgers Crossing since a chance glimpse of a road sign on the main road out of his hometown.
With a foreword by the terrific Rev Peter Laws.
About the Author
Paul was raised in Corby, Northamptonshire and now lives with his wife by a marina in Manchester city centre. Thanks to the creepy old safety films he grew up watching in the 70s and 80s, he has managed to completely avoid falling in while feeding the swans.
He has written nonfiction pieces for Film Stories, Horrified, Folklore Thursday, and Ginger Nuts of Horror as well as running pop-culture blog, World Geekly News. His first paid writing work was an article about Public Information Films for Den of Geek. In early 2021, Greenteeth Press released the anthologies Horrifying Tales and Tales To Survive The Stars which contained his first published works of fiction, The Conductor and In Memoria Furem, respectively. Later that year, Comma Press's horror anthology Strange Abrasions featured his story Jasper, his true-ish account of being stung by a wasp.
He likes single malt whisky, building Lego, cooking and eating spicy curries, rocking out to 1980s Hair Metal, and collecting vintage action figures. As far as he is aware, none of them have been possessed by a Solomonic Demon. Yet.