The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

About this book

Winter with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle or the warm crackling of a fire and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings. Now eight bestselling award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales. From a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire from a country estate with a dreadful secret to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death these are stories to make your hair stand on end send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter. So curl up light a candle and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season . . . Featuring new and original tales from: Bridget Collins Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding Imogen Hermes Gowar Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Kiran Millwood Hargrave Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies Andrew Michael Hurley Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loney Jess Kidd International award-winning author of Things in Jars Elizabeth Macneal Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory Natasha Pulley Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Laura Purcell Award-winning author of The Silent Companions