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St Ralph’s Hospital has been closed for a while but, in its day, it was a magnet for evil. The worst aspects of society gathered in its corridors. Inexplicable deaths happened with disturbing regularity. Killers patrolled the wards. But that was a century ago. Now, for those going on the #DeadEndTours urban exploration of St Ralph’s, the only dangers they expect to encounter are the tales of a bloody history and the lurid ghost stories that have grown around the building. None of the explorers expect St Ralph’s is still a magnet for evil.

The talismans of the magi control seven realms of the mortal world. One can grant the bearer immortality, another gives its owner unfathomable wealth, and a third gives the holder unerring foresight. There is a talisman to control reality, success, the deliberate and the accidental, and a talisman that governs the balance between love and hate.

At the end of each summer season, the staff at the Fun Park enjoy a private ritual called Payback Week. Every customer who ever upset them, every boss who ever crossed their path, every person responsible for a grievance, becomes eligible for payback.

Derek Turner makes his living as a psychic. But when he makes his first genuine contact with the spirit world, it is an encounter that starts him on a pathway to holding conversations with dead serial killers. Someone is recreating the most infamous crimes of the world’s sickest serial killers, including Jack the Ripper, BTK, Charles Albright, and Ed Gein. Derek learns that it’s within his power to either profit from this situation or bring it to a needed conclusion and prevent further unnecessary deaths. But profit can be a compelling argument.

People visit Blackpool for various reasons: sun, sea, sand, sex, and seagulls. This dark and twisted story, set against a backdrop of the UK’s most famous seaside resort, follows a private investigator as he tries to locate a missing person believed to be amongst the homeless community. It’s an investigation that will bring him face-to-face with violence, torture, punishment, murder, and the seagulls from hell.

Dagon has been summoned. The dead have risen from their graves. And whilst cultists, researchers, and the might of the military try to oppose him, Dagon’s power proves to be formidable. However, there is one final, slim opportunity to save the world from being eaten by Innsmouth’s returning elder god. A dwindling band of heroes fights against the inevitable apocalypse in this concluding story from Ashley Lister’s series of dark tales from Innsmouth.

Events in Innsmouth are moving to a climax. The Esoteric Order of Dagon are determined to bring about the end of the world with the summoning of the Elder God: Dagon. The order’s leaders refuse to acknowledge the repercussions of their act. And they are determined to make the seas boil and the dead rise as they prepare for Armageddon. But one fearless lecturer from Innsmouth University understands the impending perils. He believes the Esoteric Order can be stopped. And all he needs to do is to help three dangerous individuals escape from Sefton Institute for the Criminally Insane.

An excavation at a newly discovered kurgan, an ancient burial site, in Innsmouth uncovers some disturbing surprises. A senior archaeologist dies. A nefarious cult take advantage of the discoveries to further their own cause. And before long, a team from Innsmouth are travelling halfway around the world to find the relationship between their excavation and a long dead secret that yearns to rise from its grave.

Jean-Paul Sartre said, "Hell is other people." But he was only half right. Hell is the other people who work in the offices of Raven and Skull. After a week of horror and upset, six colleagues from the Raven and Skull offices get together in the pub to exchange stories and decide which of them has had the worst week.

Innsmouth University's Explorers Club meets once a month to share stories of the supernatural. They meet in empty houses, abandoned buildings, and derelict churches. They meet in the dead of night. They tell stories of the impossible, the unbelievable, and the most terrible. And now, it appears, their meetings have been cursed.

This audiobook contains a broad selection of Ashley Lister's poems, all of which have been described by various critics as either darkly amusing, absolutely hilarious, or obscenely offensive. Many of these poems touch on the subject of sex, and this is not surprising. The act of sex, whilst being a lot of fun, is also something that is quite amusing in our contemporary society. Intimacy is something most adults desire, yet the subject remains forbidden and taboo, as though our passions are base, unsavory, or simply inappropriate.

Five staff members from Innsmouth University break into a church to unearth a secret that should have remained buried. Deep beneath the church's ancient sepulchre, there is a grave labeled with a warning that promises hell on earth if it is ever opened. And still, because they believe they know better, the graverobbers ignore the warning. Harper slowed the pickup to a crawl. Goosebumps prickled his bare forearms, but he knew the cold weather was not responsible. Tendrils of chilly mist swept against the windscreen.

Innsmouth University is a place with a sinister past and a terrifying present. Two brilliant students, involved in illicit and unethical practices, believe they have found a cure for fear. The unwitting subjects of their experiments are subjected to a range of horrors as the students try to discover if it is possible for any individual to be truly fearless.

Swinging, swapping, dogging, threesomes, soft-swaps, group sex, and full-blown orgies. Everybody has heard about them. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who was rumoured to.... But who is really doing it? How? Where? Why? What's it like? And what really happens? Ashley Lister, a freelance writer, author, and reporter, uncovers today's swinging Britain and reveals the sexy, shocking, and true secrets of what happens behind closed doors.