I have published several books of short stories, and they are a mixed bag of various genres. It occurred to me that someone who enjoyed my murder and mystery stories might not be interested in Science Fiction or tales of the supernatural or the occult, and vice versa.  So here is the first of my…

Michael Anderson takes us on a rollercoaster journey through his life from his youth in Bombay to his chaotic life in London. Filled with unusual and amusing incident, he bares his soul with searing honesty and insight as he tries to deal with one life crisis and heartbreak after another.

Something unusual happened before he was born …… Louis is a rat, outwardly unexceptional and looking very much like any other of his kind. But something had happened to his mother and when he was born it very soon became clear that he was unlike all the other rats in the shadowy underground world of…

England, 1810  Sir Joshua Strickland, his wife and three daughters lead a quiet and comfortable life in their modest stately home in a rural county until James, the adoptive son of his late brother, returns from India, where he has lived since he was a child. He is welcomed into the family with open arms…

Three years ago, strange events at Heaven’s Above in Mumbai affected many lives. Life seems to have gone back to normal, and memories have faded. But there are ancient events that resonate through time, malignantly present and all but invisible. A disparate group are drawn into an apocalyptic explosion of evil. Hari, visiting from the US. Sandeep,…

After impulsively pocketing an ancient clasp during a failed robbery at the British Museum, Max finds he has embarked on a terrifying roller-coaster journey back into Britain’s Dark Ages and the twilight of the old Celtic gods. But he is not alone. The enigmatic Dr Morris will stop at nothing to possess the clasp he…

Lieutenant Johnny Mercer finds himself caught up in the chaos and evacuation following the invasion of Crete in 1941. He meets Captain Michael Hughes of Section O, and finds himself drawn into a secret world he never dreamed existed. From war-ravaged Crete to Scotland to the deserts of North Africa to the first atom bomb…

Yujantze is the right hand of Shianze, Lord of Gaztoko. For a thousand years the Lords of Gaztoko have guarded a secret buried deep in the bowels of the castle, so well that its memory has faded in the outside world. With his health failing the ageing Lord Shianze summons Yujantze and his daughter, the…

Take the unmarked trails and dark paths you have come to expect from this author. We meet a young boy who, after a hair-raising escape from torture and degradation, makes a new life for himself. But the past has a way of showing up when you least expect it, with bloody consequences. Tom leads a…

An ancient evil threatens the whole world with annihilation A long, long time ago a vicious Emperor killed all the wizards and magicians in the land in an orgy of bloody violence, and magic was seemingly erased forever. Magic was written out of the histories and over time became consigned to myth and legend. An…

Diese kleine Sammlung Deutscher Gedichte spiegelt meine Gedanken, Gefühle und Lebenserfahrungen wider. Ich habe mehrere Bücher, Kurzgeschichten and Gedichte in Englisch verfasst, was zweifellos meine erste Sprache ist. Doch auch die Deutsche Sprache gehört zu meinen Wurzeln. So gab es Momente in denen ich aus irgendeinem Grund auf Deutsch zurückfiel, um bestimmte Gedanken besser ausdrücken…

In Michael Anderson’s third collection of short stories he takes the reader into the unsettling and unexpected byways they have come to expect from his previous collections, Gardening By Moonlight and Nighthawks. We meet Greg Sampson, whose stroll in the park begins a nightmarish journey he could never have imagined. Then there are Peter, Katy…

NEW EDITION! What is it about Heaven’s Above that makes it different from other apartment buildings in Mumbai? Is it the tragedy that happened here many, many years ago that has somehow reached into the present? The ripples of that ancient event touch and change many lives in Heaven’s Above. Attempted murder, illegal money, infidelity, kidnapping, abuse,…

This is Michael Anderson’s new collection of short stories. As in his previous collection, Gardening By Moonlight, he takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the unexpected. It is available on Amazon both as an e-book and as a paperback – just click on the book cover. A woman who finds her free software does more than she…

Gardening By Moonlight is a collection of a dozen short stories, the first book I have published. It is now available on Amazon both as an e-book and as a paperback – just click on the book cover. The stories straddle several genres and I take my inspiration from anywhere – a stray thought of what if, a…