The year is 1933. Like thousands of other men, Harry Lockley has moved his family down to Crowford so that he can work in the new coal mine. For Harry, this is a chance to start again after a tumultuous few years up north, but he soon discovers that the past has followed him to his new home.

Meanwhile Harry's young daughter Sally has begun to explore the local area. She discovers an old skull half-buried in a field, but this is no ordinary fragment of the past. As the miners continue to burrow through the earth hundreds of feet underground, something has been disturbed – something that stood have stayed buried forever.

Now a threat from the town's past is about to break through again, hundreds or perhaps thousands of years after it was previously cast into the depths. And as the miners face a nightmare of their own deep beneath the surface, Sally is about to discover that true evil knows no limits – and that some entities can never be truly destroyed.

The Skull of Potter's Field is another stand-alone book in the long-running Ghosts of Crowford series, about a spooky English town where the ghosts outnumber the living and nothing is ever quite what it seems.

First published: August 2025
Genre: Ghost / Horror
Series or Standalone: Anthology Series