E.M. Wallis is a Devon-based author, poet and trained journalist whose writing explores family secrets, love, loss and the lives we carry beneath the surface.
His supernatural mystery thriller, The Last Caller, draws readers into a world of dark family secrets and a voice from beyond the grave. His poetry collection, Awaken the Warrior Inside, takes a deeply personal turn, reflecting on a father’s experience of supporting his daughter through cancer.
Across fiction and poetry, his work explores how people face the extraordinary and find the strength to keep going.
Sign up for updates on new books, poetry and the stories still to come.
E.M. Wallis is a Devon-based author, poet and trained journalist whose writing explores family secrets, love, loss and the lives we carry beneath the surface.
His supernatural mystery thriller, The Last Caller, draws readers into a world of dark family secrets and a voice from beyond the grave. His poetry collection, Awaken the Warrior Inside, takes a deeply personal turn, reflecting on a father’s experience of supporting his daughter through...
Some calls should never be answered. Especially those from the dead.
When helpline operator Jacob answers a late-night telephone call, he expects another stranger in desperate need of someone to listen. Instead, he hears a woman’s voice that draws him into a mystery stretching back decades.
Her name is Veronica. And something about her story is...
“This short paranormal thriller kept me on my toes and turning the page!” Goodreads Reviewer
What if someone reached out to you... who shouldn’t exist?
When Jack receives a message that shouldn’t be possible, he is drawn into a mystery that challenges everything he believes about memory, loss... and the impossible.
The fog never truly lifts from Misthaven Island. Neither do its secrets.
Lillie is haunted by disturbing visions she cannot explain. They arrive without warning, revealing fragments of places, faces and moments that refuse to leave her in peace.
Then a brutal murder changes everything.
When suspicion falls on Lillie, the visions become the very...
What makes a supernatural mystery linger in your imagination long after you've turned the final page? Author E.M. Wallis explores five essential ingredients, from believable characters and atmospheric settings to the secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Why some stories stay with us
I can remember finishing books years ago and still being able to picture a particular scene, a character or a place. Sometimes I can't recall every detail of the plot, but the feeling the story created remains...
An isolated island, a young woman troubled by psychic visions and a murder mystery where nothing is quite as it seems. Author E.M. Wallis explores the thinking behind Misthaven Island, the atmospheric setting of his supernatural mystery novel, Whispers in the Fog.
An island with secrets
There's something about an island that appeals to the imagination. Perhaps it's the isolation, knowing that the mainland is somewhere beyond the horizon but reaching it isn't always straightforward or perhaps...
Ghosts, visions and mysterious telephone calls might draw readers into a supernatural mystery, but it's the people caught up in those extraordinary events who make them care. Author E.M. Wallis explores why believable characters are at the heart of the stories we remember.
It starts with a person, not a ghost
Imagine receiving a telephone call from someone who died twenty years ago.
You recognise the voice. You know the person is dead. Yet they're speaking to you as clearly as if they were...
