Ben Sawyer

3 Turns Widdershins, the latest anthology from Harvey Duckman Presents is out today, featuring 18 terrifying tales of dark urban fantasy and gothic horror.
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Devilish Preludes: Tales of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York Devilish Preludes: Tales of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York : Sawyer, Ben: Amazon.co.uk: Books

Devilish deals to be made! Until the end of October, Devilish Preludes is available at half price in paperback to coincide with the new Holly Trinity novel.

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3 Turns Widdershins Available for Pre-Order The latest anthology from Harvey Duckman Presents is now available for pre-order. 3 Turns Widdershins is  a wonderfully dark collection of urban fantasy, with elements of horror and humour, fairyta…

Introducing the latest Harvey Duckman Presents anthology.

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry Six – Enter the Department of Unlikely Affairs This installment in the Masque of the Mummers Making Of was prompted by my walking past the real-life book shop that inspired Mira’s workplace.  There was a definite theme to the street …

The latest news on the third Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York brigs sinister government operatives to Holly's haunted stomping ground.

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Holly Trinity returns to the pages of Harvey Duckman Presents in two weeks, to do battle with one of the classics... #fantasy #darkfantasy #harveyduckmanpresents #Halloween ##spookyseason #newbook #shortstories

Woman in historic dress with lantern and woman with eyepatch and umbrella in a foggy street. Faceless men in top hats lurk in background

Presenting the cover art for The Masque of the Mummers, the third novel in the Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York series, out in time for #Halloween #spookyseason #newbookalert #urbanfantasy #fantasyreads ##fantasybooks

Art by Nick Jenkinson.

The Arden Footnotes: Entry Five – Covering Fire It’s cover art o’clock, so lets’s welcome graphic designer Nick Jenkinson to the Holly Trinity roadshow.

Introducing the latest recruit to the Holly Trinity roadshow as talk turns to cover art and a bold new direction... #booksky #urbanfantasy #theshowmustgoon

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Gjallahorn is sounded.

The Arden Footnotes: Entry Four – Home Again, Home Again Of local colour, to-do lists and heavy metal wasps…

More on the incoming third Holly Trinity novel. Of local colour, to-do lists and heavy metal wasps... #booksky #authorblog #fantasyreads #newbookalert #theshowmustgoon

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry Three – Introducing The Masque of the Mummers The third Holly Trinity novel comig soon.

The third Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York Novel is on its way... #booksky #newbookalert #fantasyreads

Upcoming Events in York This Sunday, I will be making my regular appearance at York Racecourse for bi-annual sci-fi convention York Unleashed. There will be copies of the Holly Trinity novels and assorted short story anth…

Events afoot in York... #booksky #yorkevents #Halloween #convention

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"Why do you put cheese in a mousetrap?"
"To catch mice."
"Why do you put a rope swing in a tree?"

The answer you've probably guessed lies in Devilish Preludes...

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry Two – Such Is the Life of a Supporting Character Behind the scenes on the third Holly Trinity novel

What to do with an ever-growing supporting cast - with a little help from #Hilda
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Watching Roaches Climb the Walls Cocker, Christie, Cthulhu and where the ideas live…

The story of broken laptops and old CDs behind the latest Holly Trinity tale in the pages of Harvey Duckman Presents. #althistory #shortstories #authorblog #newbookalert

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Harvey Duckman Presents tales from alternative history. #newbook #althistory

On A Different Tuesday Coming Soon from Harvey Duckman Presents History is written by the writers…

History is written by the writers... ##newbookalert

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry One It’s all about to get a bit real. Again. Regular readers may recall that two years back, I wrote a series of blog posts called The McAllister Journals, charting the journey of Monsters at the…

The journey to the third Holly Trinity novel begins here. ##urbanfantasy #authorblog
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A duck in a bobble hat. It can only mean one particular malevolent supporting character is about to meet one particular series of short story anthologies... ##newbookalert ##comingsoon

Despite not being on #Tiktok, I am currently live on Tiktok. #yorkhorrorfest

The Places in Between Introducing the new Holly Trinity short stories.

The stories behind and within the new Holly Trinity mini anthologies. #newbook #urbanfantasy bensawyerauthor.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/t...

Pleased to announce the release of Devilish Preludes, a trio of short stories from the world of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York. Characters new and familiar embark on terrifying rites of passage ahead of the third novel in the series. #fantasy #shortstories #quickread

"There's summat living in this tree. And this thing eats kids."

Something new is coming very soon from the world of Holly Trinity...

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Today we are contemplating how to blow up a steam train. #research ##authorlife

The last time I was at #scifiscarborough, I had to manoeuvre a pram laden with several kilos of books down the zig-zagging cliff path, trusting to misspent hours of F-Zero on the SNES to get self, books and child to the spa in one piece. Here's to an easier voyage this weekend. #comiccon #authorlife

#FantasyIndiesApril Day 14. The Fog by Kate Bush has been a bit of a theme in my head for the next Holly Trinity novel.

And a bit more #FantasyIndiesApril catch up for day 13. One of the things I've most enjoyed with book three is delving into Holly's childhood and her family life before everything changed. A hint I dropped in the first book is finally being brought into the light.

A quick bit of #FantasyIndiesApril cryptic catch up for day 12 from Holly Trinity Book Three...

"What the scut are you doing here?" Holly yelled.
One was seized with panic, the other coldly unimpressed.
"Actually, I'm not rightly sure who I just said that to." She admitted.

A Sparkle of Woodland Magic Available Today A Sparkle of Woodland Magic, the latest book in West Avenue Publishing’s range of fantasy short story anthologies, is now available in paperback and ebook. The book contains the following tal…

New #shortstories anthology A Sparkle of Woodland Magic is available now in paperback and ebook. #Fantasybooks #newbook
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New #scifi short story anthology Justice for Pluto is out today. ##newbook ##shortstories #bookrelease www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2G7PX4...