A Haunted House in the Middle of a Lake

You'd do anything to protect your children, wouldn't you?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IG4GCY0

So would Howard Dougan but when he moves his family to a house in the middle of a lake things begin to go wrong. The house has an atmosphere. The house keeps secrets - but do the secrets belong to the house or do they belong to the Dougans?

When Howard realizes a secret has been kept from him all these years, is it already too late for him to do anything about it?

Three true tales of Vampires from England:

The Croglin Vampire from Cumbria - dating from the English Civil War

The Highgate Vampire, London - from the early 1970s

The Kirklees Vampire, Yorkshire, from 1990-2004

Are these really true accounts of vampires in England? Because if they are - you should be very scared.

https://tonywalker.live/2016/12/23/english-vampires/

This is an episode discussing the real life vampire burials that have been discovered across Europe and looks at the precautions people took to stop the dead returning.

See blog post at https://tonywalker.live/2016/12/13/vampire-burials-in-europe/

Here Tasmin Fitzgerald goes looking for Polly McMahon and can't find her. She joins up with detective Le Cozh and Professor Oderburg, but sees two nasty things that she can't forget.

On a snowy Christmas Eve in 1952, a man takes a lonely train journey. He arrives at a deserted railway platform in the country and meets someone who changes his life forever.

An old fashioned ghost story for Christmas.

Tasmin Fitzgerald is still under the spell of odious French poet (and vampire?) Henri Lazar. She goes to see Polly McMahon and wants to help her, but will her infatuation for Lazar stop her doing the right thing?

A short chapter. Christian Le Cozh is stationed outside Lazar's house in London. He observes a young couple going in. He doesn't recognise them, but you might. And then things go wrong when his craving for a drink gets the better of him

Professor Oderburg now has his deadly dagger. In this chapter he meets two women and a dangerous man in a dark, isolated spot and fails to get what he wants. The secret of the what he's up against is hinted at, and he counts on the worldly wise tough guy detective Christian Le Cozh

Chapter 12. Tasmin Fitzgerald is still hunting for the Ottoman dagger for her paymaster, the sinister French poet, Henri Lazar. She has heard how he broke in and scared Polly MacMahon, but still she goes to see if she can recover the dagger from Polly and tries to win her over.

Detective Christian Le Cozh receives a phone call from his employer to go to a graveyard on a rainy midnight. Like anyone would, he goes. There he finds things are not going well. Someone else arrives unexpectedly. Then someone jumps on his car. He finds all of this perplexing but tries to make the best of it.