Crowvus

07/12/2025

Our Christmas fayre this year is the Artisans North fayre at the Royal British Legion in Thurso. We'll be here until 3pm, with a range of fiction and non fiction titles, including our latest release: Apparition, a collection of winning ghost stories.
We also have a book lucky dip. £4 gets you a mystery book!

05/12/2025

👻Spread the Word👻

Happy Launch Day to our fabulous writers!
Twelve stories of ghostly happenings, vengeful spectres, comforting spirits, and shades of those who have gone before. As the days are darkening, settle down with this collection of stories, and transport yourself to places and times where the only limit is your imagination.

Vengeful spectres, comforting spirits, and shades of those who have gone before. It's all here, in the 9th Crowvus Christmas Ghost Story Anthology, featuring 12 winning stories from the annual competition. As the days are darkening, settle down with this collection of stories, and transport yours...

27/11/2025

Your Writing : Your Rules

Today's blog is on :

After the loss of NaNoWriMo, it did not take the Crowvus writers long to realise how much we relied on this structured routine for our writ...

31/10/2025

Psst! Did you see it?
The results of our 9th Ghost Story Competition are here:
https://crowvus.com/competition-results/
Congratulations to our winners and shortlisted writers! Their stories will be available in this year's anthology, *Apparition*, which will be published on 5th December.

We had a record number of entries in both categories, and we were amazed by all the original ideas for each story. Keep questioning, keep believing, and keep writing, Authors. Your work is incredible.
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31/10/2025

Today is the day...
Keep your eyes peeled for the announcement of our Ghost Story Competition winners!

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30/10/2025

We all love it, don't we?
This week's post is about . October's blog from Judith considers what the programme means to her as an author and a viewer.

My brief for this blog was to make it spooky - it being nearly Halloween. I then trawled the internet for the best historical spooky tv ser...

13/10/2025

We are loving the book launch for Beneath a Darkening Sky by Judith Crow! Come and see us in the next half hour at Spellbound in Thurso!

13/10/2025

We're all set up for the book launch of Beneath a Darkening Sky by Judith Crow.
Please pop along to Spellbound in Thurso for a signed copy of this brilliant gothic horror anthology. A perfect read for spooky season!

10/10/2025

👍 Fabulous coverage about Monday's book launch in our local paper!

06/10/2025

Oyez, oyez!

Whatever you have planned for next Monday, drop it and head over to Spellbound Caithness for the launch of our new collection of chilling horror stories.

Judith Crow's "Beneath a Darkening Sky" features ten unnerving tales told in the gothic tradition. Perfect for those premature evenings and the thinning of the veil.
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01/10/2025

New Book!

❤️Hooded: Cosy Romance is now available❤️
This issue of Hooded is filled with love: timeless and inspiring. Sometimes it is a love which has been celebrated for many years, sometimes it is a new awakening, and sometimes it is the rekindling of an old romance. We asked writers to think about romance in an older generation – there are lots of romance stories for the twenty-something generation – and the results have been beautiful.
On reading, you will find pieces of writing designed to celebrate the greatest and most powerful of human emotions: Love.

This issue of is filled with : timeless and inspiring. Sometimes it is a love which has been celebrated for many years, sometimes it is a new awakening, and sometimes it is the rekindling of an old romance. We asked writers to think about in an – there are lots of romance stories for th...

28/09/2025

So proud to be at the first ever Caithness Comic Con!