A must have for lovers of the weird and mysterious, Solitary Island and Other Strange Tales sweeps the reader through entertaining landscapes replete with eccentric characters, unexplained events, and spine-tingling scenarios. The twelve original tales are a delicious potpourri of mystery, humor, science fiction and ghostly encounters, with a subtle thread of wry social commentary.

Readers will meet a pair of lovers on a baby-making camping trip gone wrong, a young man bewildered by a working holiday in a foreign country, dead animals avenging the ravages of climate change, frighteningly jingoistic lcoals on lonely roads, and giant vermin running amok on a distant planet. They will learn the fate of fanatics in the mountains, join the hunt for perverted poltergeists, and ride a train with an improbable spiral staircase.

This collection of refreshingly original stories will captivate readers from beginning to end.