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Ben Sawyer
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Author of the Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York urban fantasy series and other strange tales.
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New supernatural urban fantasy novel The Masque of the Mummers is out now in paperback and ebook. #Halloween ##urbanfantasy #newbookalert #fantasybooks #ghosts

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The Masque of the Mummers is Out Now!
The Masque of the Mummers is out now in paperback and ebook, bringing more supernatural adventures for Holly Trinity just in time for Halloween. The show must go on, at least if York’s eterna…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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3 Turns Widdershins, the latest anthology from Harvey Duckman Presents is out today, featuring 18 terrifying tales of dark urban fantasy and gothic horror.
#newbook #fantasy #shortstories #bookrelease #DarkFantasy #gothichorror
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3 Turns Widdershins: A Collection of Dark and Urban Fantasy Stories (Harvey Duckman Presents...) eBook : Duckman, Harvey, Hayes, Mark, Connelly, R. Bruce, Errington, Keith, Sawyer, Ben, Sacks, Davia, ...
3 Turns Widdershins: A Collection of Dark and Urban Fantasy Stories (Harvey Duckman Presents...) eBook : Duckman, Harvey, Hayes, Mark, Connelly, R. Bruce, Errington, Keith, Sawyer, Ben, Sacks, Davia, ...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Devilish deals to be made! Until the end of October, Devilish Preludes is available at half price in paperback to coincide with the new Holly Trinity novel.

#shortstories #halloween2025 #bookdeals #bookbargain #fantasy #horror #SpookySeason #darkfantasy #UrbanFantasy
Devilish Preludes: Tales of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York
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September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Introducing the latest Harvey Duckman Presents anthology.

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3 Turns Widdershins Available for Pre-Order
The latest anthology from Harvey Duckman Presents is now available for pre-order. 3 Turns Widdershins is  a wonderfully dark collection of urban fantasy, with elements of horror and humour, fairyta…
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September 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The latest news on the third Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York brigs sinister government operatives to Holly's haunted stomping ground.

#newbookalert #fantasy #urbanfantasy #Halloween #theshowmustgoon #book
The Arden Footnotes: Entry Six – Enter the Department of Unlikely Affairs
This installment in the Masque of the Mummers Making Of was prompted by my walking past the real-life book shop that inspired Mira’s workplace.  There was a definite theme to the street …
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September 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Holly Trinity returns to the pages of Harvey Duckman Presents in two weeks, to do battle with one of the classics... #fantasy #darkfantasy #harveyduckmanpresents #Halloween ##spookyseason #newbook #shortstories
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Presenting the cover art for The Masque of the Mummers, the third novel in the Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York series, out in time for #Halloween #spookyseason #newbookalert #urbanfantasy #fantasyreads ##fantasybooks

Art by Nick Jenkinson.
Woman in historic dress with lantern and woman with eyepatch and umbrella in a foggy street. Faceless men in top hats lurk in background
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Introducing the latest recruit to the Holly Trinity roadshow as talk turns to cover art and a bold new direction... #booksky #urbanfantasy #theshowmustgoon

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry Five – Covering Fire
It’s cover art o’clock, so lets’s welcome graphic designer Nick Jenkinson to the Holly Trinity roadshow.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Gjallahorn is sounded.
September 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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More on the incoming third Holly Trinity novel. Of local colour, to-do lists and heavy metal wasps... #booksky #authorblog #fantasyreads #newbookalert #theshowmustgoon

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry Four – Home Again, Home Again
Of local colour, to-do lists and heavy metal wasps…
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September 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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The third Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York Novel is on its way... #booksky #newbookalert #fantasyreads
The Arden Footnotes: Entry Three – Introducing The Masque of the Mummers
The third Holly Trinity novel comig soon.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Events afoot in York... #booksky #yorkevents #Halloween #convention

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Upcoming Events in York
This Sunday, I will be making my regular appearance at York Racecourse for bi-annual sci-fi convention York Unleashed. There will be copies of the Holly Trinity novels and assorted short story anth…
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August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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"Why do you put cheese in a mousetrap?"
"To catch mice."
"Why do you put a rope swing in a tree?"

The answer you've probably guessed lies in Devilish Preludes...

#booksky #shortstories #urbanfantasy #darkfairytale #horror #darkfantasybooks Link in comments.
August 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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What to do with an ever-growing supporting cast - with a little help from #Hilda
#fantasybooks #writingcommunity #authorlife #authorblog

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The Arden Footnotes: Entry Two – Such Is the Life of a Supporting Character
Behind the scenes on the third Holly Trinity novel
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July 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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The story of broken laptops and old CDs behind the latest Holly Trinity tale in the pages of Harvey Duckman Presents. #althistory #shortstories #authorblog #newbookalert

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Watching Roaches Climb the Walls
Cocker, Christie, Cthulhu and where the ideas live…
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July 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Harvey Duckman Presents tales from alternative history. #newbook #althistory
July 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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History is written by the writers... ##newbookalert

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On A Different Tuesday Coming Soon from Harvey Duckman Presents
History is written by the writers…
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June 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The journey to the third Holly Trinity novel begins here. ##urbanfantasy #authorblog
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The Arden Footnotes: Entry One
It’s all about to get a bit real. Again. Regular readers may recall that two years back, I wrote a series of blog posts called The McAllister Journals, charting the journey of Monsters at the…
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June 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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A duck in a bobble hat. It can only mean one particular malevolent supporting character is about to meet one particular series of short story anthologies... ##newbookalert ##comingsoon
June 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Despite not being on #Tiktok, I am currently live on Tiktok. #yorkhorrorfest
June 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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The stories behind and within the new Holly Trinity mini anthologies. #newbook #urbanfantasy bensawyerauthor.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/t...
The Places in Between
Introducing the new Holly Trinity short stories.
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May 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Pleased to announce the release of Devilish Preludes, a trio of short stories from the world of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York. Characters new and familiar embark on terrifying rites of passage ahead of the third novel in the series. #fantasy #shortstories #quickread
Devilish Preludes: Tales of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York : Sawyer, Ben: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Devilish Preludes: Tales of Holly Trinity and the Ghosts of York : Sawyer, Ben: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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May 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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"There's summat living in this tree. And this thing eats kids."

Something new is coming very soon from the world of Holly Trinity...

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May 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Today we are contemplating how to blow up a steam train. #research ##authorlife
a black and white photo of a train on the tracks
ALT: a black and white photo of a train on the tracks
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May 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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The last time I was at #scifiscarborough, I had to manoeuvre a pram laden with several kilos of books down the zig-zagging cliff path, trusting to misspent hours of F-Zero on the SNES to get self, books and child to the spa in one piece. Here's to an easier voyage this weekend. #comiccon #authorlife
April 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM