Writer, Producer, Director, Actor
​JOHN MANGAN
THE BOOKS
These are the first of my books to be published over the next year. They are all original novels and will be available in both ebook (all formats) and paperback versions. Audio versions will be available.
You will be able to buy them from all major internet booksellers such as Amazon and all good bookshops.
The Haunting of Harry Payne
AVAILABLE 31st OCTOBER 2020
​Ex-gangster Harry Payne leaves prison after serving ten years for the murder of his best friend and gang boss Eugene McCann. Retiring to a small village in Norfolk to care for his vulnerable wife, Susan, Harry believes he has finally left his violent past behind. Instead, he becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome occult murders.
As the villagers fear the return of the ghostly "White Lady of Rayleton", the embittered but brilliant Detective Inspector Bracken and his young assistant, DS Belinda Churchill target Harry. However, unknown to anyone, Harry has psychic abilities he has always suppressed with alcohol. Now he must confront the supernatural and his own personal demons to save his wife and free the tormented souls of the ghosts that haunt him.
Black Shuck
AVAILABLE DECEMBER 2020
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1577: The supernatural hell hound, Black Shuck, rampages through two churches in East Anglia, slaughtering the faithful and leaving claw marks in the doors that can be seen to this day. Then, just as mysteriously, it vanishes never to be seen again until...
1642: England trembles on the brink of Civil War and a satanic conspiracy plots to assassinate King Charles I in order to raise the Beast again. Cavaliers battle Roundheads, Puritans burn witches and Three Wise Men arrive from the east to find the One destined to kill the monster.
Forced into this secret war is Isaac, the rebellious, proud son of a powerful witch, who must embrace his destiny, slay Black Shuck to win the aristocratic Sarah from her ambitious father Sir John and save his mother from the Witchfinders but there's a problem.
How can he when he has none of his mother’s powers?
The God Particle
AVAILABLE APRIL 2021
The Dark Matter Collider, Britain's entry in the race to discover and exploit dark matter and dark energy, now circles Rendlesham, the British Roswell. Plagued by delays, accidents and protesters who fear it will destroy the planet, the Department for Scientific Advancement sends Professor Richard Glaive to investigate.
He discovers a seething nest of conspiracy theorists, UFO hunters and spies locked in conflict with the DMC scientists led by the brilliant but broken Dr. Siegfreid Lamming. While wrestling with UFO sightings, supernatural terror and mysterious deaths, Glaive digs up an ancient monolith of alien design.
As the countdown begins for the DMC to go online and the Superpowers line up for war, Glaive must battle with vested interests and an evil artefact from another Galaxy in a life or death struggle to save the Earth.
Voodoo Wasp
AVAILABLE SUMMER 2021
Surviving a terrorist attack at Heathrow Airport, MI5 agent "Kat" Ellery and celebrity scientist Douglas Chandler are forced to go on the run when they discover alien implants in the dead terrorists, implants that change humans into mindless drones.
Surviving betrayal, pursuit by the authorities and attempts on their lives, they discover a terrifying conspiracy of alien experimentation, ruthless mind-control and human corruption that leads up to the highest in the land.
Fighting through seemingly impossible odds, Kat and Douglas finally penetrate to the heart of the alien conspiracy. Here they discover the horrifying alien plans for humanity and the extent of the powerful human cabal that has grown rich and powerful serving the aliens.
Kat and Douglas must make the impossible choice: genocide or collaboration.
Do they even have a choice?