Loglines & Screenplays by Peter Townsend

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Ghostly Images

GENRES: Crime, Historical, Horror, Thriller

On the verge of destitution an Victorian apprentice photographer reluctantly agrees to work for a charlatan in faking spirit photographs; but when ghostly images appear on the untouched plates of young women who are murdered within days of having their photographs taken this not only threatens his scientific outlook on life but makes make him the prime murder suspect.

(An adaptation of my novel ‘Ghostly Images’ published by LL-Publications).


Scarborough Fair

GENRES: Crime, Historical, Thriller

Official records indicate that Queen Victoria never visited Scarborough - but did she make a secret visit that came perilously close to claiming her life?


The Visit

GENRES: Crime, Historical, Thriller

Official records indicate that Abraham Lincoln never visited Boston in February 1865 - but did he make a secret visit with his wife that month which came perilously close to claiming his life at the hands of a Confederate sympathiser?

(US adaptation of Scarborough Fair)


The Wishing Stone

GENRES: Drama, Horror

Sixth-former Helen Maxwell moves to scenic Pendle Hill with her family. Pendle Hill hosted the infamous 1612 witch trials, when feuding local families used ancient artefacts to practice witchcraft. Family descendants still remain in the village, but the old ways, feuding and artefacts are long gone. Or are they?


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