Haunting Tales and Folklore

Written by Peter Bayliss

        Peter Bayliss is a creative writer/freelance journalist who has had short stories and articles published in both small-press and national magazines in the UK. Born on 3rd March 1949, he originally trained in Typographic Design after leaving school, but physical disability prevented him from following this as a career -- Peter has Friedreich's Ataxia, a rare and progressive disorder of the nervous system, and all of his current writing is done directly onto a computer using a voice recognition system.
     Re-training in clerical and commercial work, he eventually found full-time employment with the GEC in Coventry. Then after retiring on medical grounds in 1983, he studied with the Open University and also took a freelance writing course with the London School of Journalism. All writing at this stage was typed with an electric typewriter, then a word-processor, and later using the computer. He attained his BA (Hons) Degree and a Diploma in European Humanities with the OU, finishing after 14 enjoyable and successful years of study. He followed a variety of subjects, including literature, art history and philosophy.
      He currently writes stories and articles for many different publications and also produces a regular column, 'Pete's Patch', for the quarterly magazine of the UK's Friedreich's Ataxia Group. A long-standing member of the Coventry Writers' Group, he edits their monthly Newsletter and is three-times winner of their Trophy.
        Peter is a member of the British Fantasy Society and the Ghost Story Society. He lives with his parents in Street Ashton, a small rural district between Coventry and Rugby, Warwickshire.

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