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Book Two of The Cairnshore Tides — Out Now
THE TIDEWARDEN
Before Georgette vanished, someone was sent to bring her home. In Cairnshore, bloodlines are debts, and the Tidewardens always collect. When a young warden is ordered to retrieve a woman who escaped the village, he must choose between obedience, his brother’s life and the truth beneath the tide.
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The Architect of Dark Folk
John Togher is a Wigan-based writer whose fiction blends folk horror, coastal mystery and psychological unease as explored in debut novella, Bound by the Salt, set in the strange village of Cairnshore. John’s writing explores obsession, memory, and the strange pull of places we thought we had escaped.
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Writer of quiet dread • Psychological horror • Dark coastal mystery • Family secrets • Isolated places
READER REVIEWS
GOODREADS REVIEWER
“A disturbing fever dream.”
GOODREADS REVIEWER
“Poetry written in horror and pain.”
AMAZON REVIEWER
“If you like your folk horror to grip you by the ankles and cling to your skin, this is for you.”
AMAZON REVIEWER
“John Togher’s crisp, often poetic writing brought the gothic setting vividly to life while maintaining a steady undercurrent of tension throughout.”