Secret of Secrets

This is the first book by a talented young author with a very vivid imagination. It describes the experiences of highly intelligent students from a College in Oldham each hand-picked by a new teacher of Folklore, Myths, and Legends who go on a camping trip to a forest clearing called Daisy Nook. Daisy had lived there in the 1600s until she was burned at the stake during a witchcraft Inquisition. It transpires that the teacher is herself a witch with a desire for revenge, particularly against a vampire entombed in a cave in Daisy Nook for several centuries. In a gripping and complex plot, the students are forced into dozens of encounters with all manner of black magic, monsters and mythical creatures including The Greens, The Black Annis, elves, goblins, and ghouls. These fights are described in minute detail and frequently involve levitation, teletransportation, and psychokinesis. The ultimate duel, which culminates in the use of a guillotine coffin, is with the vampire of Daisy Nook, a relation of no less than Dracula and Elizabeth Bathory! Ultimately the book explores the interaction between humans and other beings with paranormal powers in parallel worlds, including close associates of the students, but the other beings do exist.