Murmurs In The Night

By Les Pobjie

Terrors await in the night. The ordinary becomes strange, mundane becomes unbelievable, normality flips into horror and life abruptly slips towards death — or worse.

Murmurs in the Night is a collection of stories about people — good and evil — coping with disturbing incidents that often begin with the commonplace...

A driver alone at night on a highway is puzzled when his radio switches off by itself; a woman walking home through a park looks back and sees the loudly argumentative couple behind her is just one person; a family dinner is disrupted when mum shouts out garbled words in a strange voice; a man walks out of his bathroom after a nocturnal visit to see an unknown old woman sitting up in his bed; a placid cat fights viciously to avoid being put out at night, a flimsily dressed woman walks in the cold rain, trying to make herself sick; a strange old man puts Christmas ''darks'' up on his house, with dire consequences for some townsfolk.

Ten stories of unusual — often scary, rarely funny — events when the everyday abruptly shifts into another, disturbing reality.
Enter if you dare — and be entertained.

A natural inheritor of the crown first forged by the great Roald Dahl

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mirador Publishing
• Release date: Feb 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781909220089

Les Pobjie

Les Pobjie is a retired newspaper editor. Much of what he considers his productive career has been with newspapers in various guises: photographer, reporter, sub-editor and editor. He has worked on regional newspapers in Queensland and on metropolitan and community newspapers in Brisbane and Sydney. Les has written two books of twist-in-the-tail short stories (Murmurs in the Night, More Murmurs in the Night), a humorous novel (Local Rag Hero) and a murder mystery (Handy Guide to Murderville). After struggling with failing sight for the past few years, Les is now blind. This book was written entirely by dictation and he is now aiming to continue writing fiction. He lives in Sydney with his wife Helen. They have four adult children.

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