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Your guide to the lost places and the secret histories.

Be cautious, though. If you follow them, you may become lost yourself.

For fans of (folk) horror, myth, legend and the eerie.

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About Maps of the Lost

Your guide to the lost places and the secret histories. I write other stuff elsewhere, novelist, shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award, Northern Writers' Awards winner blah blah...but this is where I just have fun and get weird.

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