ALEX SCAPENS
AWRITER who was inspired by the belief his family home is haunted is having his supernatural thriller book turned into a film.
Nick Brown, 65, moved into his Victorian house, on Acres Lane, Bramhall, 35 years ago with wife Jill and says he would hear footsteps late at night and doors would open on their own.
Each of the couple’s three children Greg, Marcus and Guy, now 30, 22 and 20, also complained about a lady visiting them in the night.
The eerie happenings awoke an interest in the paranormal and Nick has since penned a series of supernatural thriller books.
And following an approach from a Los Angeles film company he and his youngest son are writing a screenplay of the first of the four novels, which is called Skendleby
Nick said: “I know it sounds crackers but things have happened for which there is no explanation. Things seem to happen when there is change, like when the boys were born or when we had an extension.
“I think of myself as a rational sort so I put these things to the back of my mind but as soon as he was old enough to talk Greg voiced his concerns.
“He would say a woman had come into his room during the night. I still thought nothing of it until Marcus made the same complaint and then Guy did too.
“These strange things are what started my interest in the supernatural and I began the books.”
The screenplay will be finished in early April, coincidentally at the same time as the fourth book in Nick’s series - the Greenman Resurrection - is released.
Before turning his full attention to writing Nick worked as a teacher and archaeologist, which is another source of inspiration.
His first book, for which he is producing the screenplay, tells the story of archaeologists who discover a mound.
But while excavating what they think is a natural occurrence they open a 5,000-year-old tomb that has been kept shut for very good reason.
Nick said: “What has happened is incredible, no one is more surprised than me.
“At first no one wanted to touch my books but now it is going well.
“It’s strange being on the phone about it to people in Los Angeles but even stranger working on it with my son, who for parts of it, is the boss.”