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Harry Stubbs
Series · 5 books · 2014-2023

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Hide and Seek

2023

In 1919 South London, Harry Stubbs is freshly out of the army and dreams of glory as an up-and-coming heavyweight boxer. Afraid of nothing, one night Harry carelessly takes on a dare to explore a disused amusement park attraction. The fake mine is said to be haunted by something with a craving for human blood, and what follows is stranger and more dangerous than Harry could ever have dreamed. But the horrifying truth does not emerge until a chance encounter years later in a waxwork museum...
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#1

The Elder Ice

2014

Lovecraftian weird fiction set in 1920s London. In this atmospheric novella, ex-boxer Harry Stubbs is on the trail of a mysterious legacy. A polar explorer has died, leaving huge debts and hints of a priceless find. His informants seem to be talking in riddles, and Harry soon finds he isn't the only one on the trail—and what he's looking for is as lethal as it is valuable. The key to the enigma lies in an ancient Arabian book and it leads to something stranger and more horrifying than Harry could ever imagine. Harry may not be an educated man, but he has an open mind, the bulldog persistence and a piledriver punch—all vital for survival when you're boxing the darkest of shadows. The story of mystery and horror draws on HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and is inspired by Ernest Shackleton's incredible real-life adventures.
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#2

Broken Meats

2015

Weird things lurk in the dark streets of London in 1925. After a bizarre shooting incident, Harry Stubbs, former heavyweight boxer and sometime debt collector, is coerced into helping a visitor from Shanghai. Mr Yang, an agent of the feared Si Fan Society with unusual powers, is seeking information about a dead man. Roslyn D’Onston was a journalist and black magician—and a leading suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. D’Onston has been dead for thirteen years. But exactly how dead is he now? When Yang joins a cell of renegade Theosophists for a séance, things start to go terribly wrong and Harry finds himself caught in a battle between occult powers, with strange enemies and stranger friends. It will take all his deductive skills – and talent for throwing a killer punch – to survive against the all-too-real arts of necromancy…
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#3

Alien Stars

2017

London 1925: a grisly discovery in a ladies' rooming house sets ex-boxer Harry Stubbs on a new mission. An insidious alien force is at work, and the quest takes Harry from the lowest dives to high society, delving for occult secrets buried in the Horniman Museum and battling bare-knuckle with ferocious opponents. Harry's fighting skills and deductive prowess are put to the test, but telling friend from enemy is increasingly difficult and time is running out...a thrilling adventure where ancient mystery collides with 1920s science to the background of the Cthulhu Mythos,
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#4

Master of Chaos

2018

London 1925: Ex-boxer Harry Stubbs goes undercover, working in a mental institution to investigate an epidemic of madness. Bizarre deaths occur at the asylum, seemingly linked to an occult power. As he starts to unravel the mystery, Harry’s grip on his own sanity becomes increasingly precarious. Who is behind the killings? What are the strange new treatments doing to the patients? Why can Harry not get any reply from his handlers? To get answers, Harry must to venture into the borderland between magic and science, sanity and madness, and face the Master of Chaos... A thrilling 1920s adventure drawing on HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

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