The Twelve Strokes of Brackenford

By C J Weddell

Brackenford has always known how to bury the truth.

Beneath an abandoned railway arch, five teenagers find a scarred stranger standing beside three wet marks cut into the stone. Each mark means a body. Each teenager carries a private hunger. And the stranger knows exactly what to offer them.

Power. Justice. Escape. Legacy. A name no one can forget.

But gifts in Brackenford are never free. As the ruined church bell counts towards its twelfth stroke, the town's dead begin to walk, old bargains tear open, and the families who own Brackenford are forced to face what their parents sacrificed beneath the pit in 1954.

The town did not survive its worst night by chance.

It fed something.

Now it is hungry again.

A dark, atmospheric folk-horror thriller about inherited guilt, desperate bargains and the price a town makes its children pay.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDWVWPTR
• ISBN13: 9798192203255
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"