Short Tales of Mystery & Intrigue

About the Book

That night wrapped up in his shawl was no different from any other night.

He dreams of a large house with a staircase in the main hall leading to the upper floor which has many rooms. A frightened boy about  fourteen years  old runs along a dimly lit corridor lit up with oil lamps.

The boy reaches the top of the stairs and without hesitating jumps from them.

Even though he is an infant Kevin at this point would  feel a falling sensation in his small stomach.

When the young boy in his dream hit’s the floor Kevin always feels pain in his right ankle and fear in the pit  of his stomach.

The boy in his dream gets up and tries to run away but before he can make his escape, a hand  grabs him and spins him around.

 Kevin sees the smiling face of a beautiful woman who speaks to him in a soft gentle voice and in a strange accent.

Kevin feels absolute fear and is terrified at this point  because he senses this woman is pure evil.

It is at this point that Kevin always wakes up crying.

About the Author

Patrick Dempsey  was born and raised in Glasgow  and currently spends his time living and working in  Perth, Scotland but also spends a lot of  time at his second home in the village of Creeslough , County Donegal ,  Ireland.

Patrick is a keen fisherman  and Musician who plays a number of Percussion instruments .

Although all the short stories in the book are fiction some of  the stories and  character names used  are based loosely around experiences which Patrick and close friends have encountered over the years. Patrick has embellished them using his own imagination.

Take the story about the Professor for instance.

This was based on the Professor who supposedly  walks the corridors in the old part of the Western Infirmary  in Glasgow.

Staff claim to have smelled a strong whiff of pipe tobacco wafting along the corridor from the department  he used to run back at the turn of the century. 

Patrick worked in the older part of the infirmary  for  a number of years and  he and his colleagues would joke about the Professor coming on shift  when they  started to smell  the pipe tobacco.  So basically the stories in the book have been written with the bones  of some odd experiences and a lot of imagination has been added in to give it some meat.

Short  Tales of  Mystery & Intrigue is Patrick’s first novel.

Hope you enjoy.