Evangeline's not good. She might even be a bully. But she's not a baby, so why did her Dad think bringing that freaky-looking Watching Elf would help her behaviour before Christmas?! But then, footsteps scuttle beneath the fairy lights. Wrongdoers are attacked, each mysterious 'punishment' more violent and disturbing than the last. When she finds a tacky old horror magazine warning of a malevolent demon that flays your skin in the spirit of Christmas, Evangeline is filled with dread; is this connected to that hideous doll watching her from the hallway? And if so, what if she is on its naughty list? The first in a brand new horror series, Blood Texts. Book 2 publishing 2nd September 2025. Cover illustration by Keith Robinson.

Colm lives in a noisy flat with last year's Halloween decs still dotted around the place. He is mad on all kinds of horror, be it splatterfests, ghost stories, or unsettling psychological terrors. His writing desk is his phone, and he will write like mad at every chance he gets, fitting it around fixing marble and granite on rufty tufty building sites. While Colm’s major interest is books, he’s also written short films screened at Raindance, characters and plot maps for Secret Cinema, and occasionally rewrites emails for other builders onsite when someone's having a barney and wants to cut back on the bad language. As well as teen / YA horrors, Colm has also written middle grade adventures, and a grown up book made in bad taste.