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It took months for me to trust that Rachel - the imaginary “friend” who’d hurt me as a child - was gone, years to convince myself I was just a sick kid with an overactive imagination. But I finally did it. I pulled it together, got well, and I never looked back. On the day our school bus is knocked off an overpass, I’m just an average teen obsessed with becoming a professional dancer. Now, suddenly my childhood tormentor is back and I’m on the run from Rachel and men-in-black types who want me dead.

Hannah and Rea, on holiday in Tangiers are disturbed to discover that two sinister looking characters are following them. Then they meet the mysterious Toby who is himself following the stalkers. He wants to know why the men are interested in the girls. But the girls have no idea. They are not too worried, since they are moving on to Chefchouen. Toby says he will take them himself, secretly. But who is Toby? What does he do? Is he a policeman? A spy? A treasure hunter? All seems well until one of the girls disappears.

Amaranthine and Other Stories serves up nine schlock horror slices, sprinkled with quirk and humor. Forget vampires. Forget werewolves. Forget ghosts. Humans are the ultimate grotesques. Variant flavours of woe sift through this audiobook. The results are sometimes hilarious, sometimes outright hair-raising.