Novels by

Philip Maxwell

Old myths. Modern dangers. Stories that refuse to stay buried.

British novelist. Celtic myth, ancient secrets and the paranormal, colliding with the modern world.

The Inheritance Trilogy

The Samhain Legacy

Anglesey · Druids · the Otherworld

A New Yorker inherits a Welsh manor built on an ancient stone circle, and learns his bloodline makes him part of a 2,000-year-old secret order whose enemies have already started killing.

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A paranormal thriller series

Astral Encounters

California · the FBI · the Third Eye

A terrorist bomb kills a grieving father’s wife and leaves shrapnel lodged by his brain, unlocking the power to leave his body. Now an FBI agent with something to prove needs that power to stop the next attack.

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Unpublished · a vampire saga in two centuries

Deliver Us from Evil

The Costa del Sol · Anglesey · 1807

A drought drains a reservoir above Marbella and uncovers a drowned village. In its flooded crypt, a vampire who has slept since the Napoleonic Wars wakes hungry, and the only man who can see him for what he is never knew whose blood runs in his veins.

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From page to screen

Every series is available for film and television

3 series with worlds built to run for seasons. Rights are held by the author.

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The author

Stories born of the places he’s lived

From the North West of England to the mountains of North Wales and the coast of Spain, Philip Maxwell writes where myth and history break through into the present day.

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