The Haunting Season

Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

Bridget Collins, Andrew Michael Hurley, Natasha Pulley, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Elizabeth Macneal, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Jess Kidd

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781643137988
• Year: 2021

Eight bestselling, award-winning writers return to the time-honoured tradition of the seasonal ghost story in this spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales.

Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, 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 spooky tale.

Now nine 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 of the English countryside, 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 fall under the ghostly spell of winters past . . . 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• 1. A Study in Black and White – Bridget Collins
• 2. Thwaite’s Tenant – Imogen Hermes Gowar
• 3. The Eel Singers – Natasha Pulley
• 4. Lily Wilt – Jess Kidd
• 5. The Chillingham Chair – Laura Purcell
• 6. The Hanging of the Greens – Andrew Michael Hurley
• 7. Confinement – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Author’s Note
• 8. Monster – Elizabeth Macneal
• About the Authors
• Copyright