Wakeful Children Av S P Oldham

<div><b><i>Wakeful Children</i> is a collection of highly imaginative and inventive short stories. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>The oak sways gently, a shiver shimmers its way from roots to tip. A branch creaks as if in resistance. A small, fresh leaf strains to curl into life, shows promise for an instant, then withers and dies. A sigh, just beyond human hearing, vibrates the night. </i><i>All else is still. </i></div><div><br></div><div>You will be unwittingly taken on a journey to witness the twisted brutality of Joe Gallows, the weird dream-scape of The Sandman, the ice-cold grasp of The Face of the Gale, the elemental horror of an ancient, evil entity in Devil¿s Drop. You will visit some of the residents down a darkly troubled street in Absorption; watched over by a beautiful, malignant presence all the while. </div><div><br></div><div>These and other tales make <i>Wakeful Children</i> an extremely unusual, compelling and refreshingly different read in this genre. One that