About The Author

 

 

Phil Horey is a Commercial Diver and Photographer from the North east of England. He sailed to West Coast of Scotland in an old ships lifeboat from the Tyne back in 1985. He lived there for 30 years before returning to his old house on the outskirts of Newcastle-upon Tyne.

Recent Diving projects include work on the Costa Concordia salvage and search for a Spanish Armada Galleon.

His photographic roots are in sub-sea images and national Hunt racing and more latterly inspired by ghost stories, myths and legends of the British Isles.

 

 

Phil Horey has been a deep sea diver for all his long life and so has sensed the mysteries of deep waters. Those mysteries allow him the extra perspectives he shares with us in the book   His stories are often beyond solution in our own world’s imagining.  But, just maybe, the sea and the earth have their own extra ‘dimensions’ far deeper than our own thinking ability? Who could even dream up the colour ‘yellow’ had they not experienced it?  Phil Horey writes thrilling tales, drifting us into the far dimensions that have drifted to Phil himself.

Sir Humphry Wakefield

Chillingham Castle 2018

 

 

This book is the product of many years spent pursuing mysterious stories to their remote locations, travelling with an imagination wide open and a camera loaded with black and white film. Following in the footsteps of Simon Marsden, Phil Horey sets out to capture the supernatural reputation of places in the details of shadow, light and grain and evokes in his reconstructions the presence of characters who, one might sense, still lurk or watch. In each accompanying essay he brings to life the stories and tells of his own explorations, thus conjuring the places and associated events, each with its own particular prickle of senses.

Linda Cracknell  

 

Linda Cracknell is a writer of fiction and non-fiction whose latest books include ‘Call of the Undertow’ and ‘Doubling Back: Ten paths trodden in memory’.