The Haunting Season

Eight bestselling, award-winning authors return to the time-honoured tradition of the seasonal ghost story in this dazzling new collection. This is your indispensable companion to the long, dark nights this October. 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 Time. s bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. Laura Purcell. Award-winning author of The Silent Companions. Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a ghost story. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors-all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre-bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling tales. Taking you from the frosty Fens to the wild Yorkshire moors, to the snow-covered grounds of a haunted estate, to a bustling London Christmas market, these mesmerizing stories will capture your imagination and serve as your indispensable companion to cold, dark nights. So curl up, light a candle, and f. all under the spell of winters past..