The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

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.\r\n\r\nNow 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.\r\n\r\nFrom 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.\r\n\r\n So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season . . .\r\n\r\nFeaturing new and original tales from:\r\n\r\nBridget Collins\r\nSunday Times bestselling author of The Binding\r\n\r\nImogen Hermes Gowar\r\nSunday Times bestselling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock\r\n\r\nKiran Millwood Hargrave\r\nSunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies\r\n\r\nAndrew Michael Hurley\r\nSunday Times bestselling author of The Loney\r\n\r\nJess Kidd\r\nInternational award-winning author of Things in Jars\r\n\r\nElizabeth Macneal\r\nSunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory\r\n\r\nNatasha Pulley\r\nSunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street\r\n\r\nLaura Purcell\r\nAward-winning author of The Silent Companions