Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark

Classic Halloween Ghost Stories from the Author of Uncle Paul

Celia Fremlin

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571312702
• Year: 2014

Spine-chillingly creepy Halloween tales of horror from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' ( Sunday Times) for fans of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith and Stranger Things.

'Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin.' Telegraph
'Grips like grim death.' Spectator

I tried to open my mouth to call out again; but it was not my mouth that opened; it was a great beak, jutting out of my face, cruel and curved like a bird of prey ...

In the high flats, up near the clouds, Hilda and her baby twins reach a fateful end ...
An aunt feels foreboding about her niece's new fiance - but the darkness comes from within ...
A haunted babysitter experiences a little girl's terror of The Hen With The Great Big Eyes ...
One teenage girl's evening home alone is ruined by a mysterious unexpected visitor ...
A little boy's obsession with angels leads to a dramatic metamorphosis ...

Celia Fremlin's classic Gothic story collection is a masterpiece of psychological horror, mining the darkest elements of marriage, childhood, and ageing; probing paranoia, grief and toxic relationships; inviting the ghosts of the past into our present; and exploring the nightmarish secret impulses and supernatural forces lurking beneath suburban Britain.

Table of contents

• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface to the 2014 Edition
• The Quiet Game
• The Betrayal
• The New House
• Last Day of Spring
• The Special Gift
• Old Daniel’s Treasure
• For Ever Fair
• The Irony of Fate
• The Baby-Sitter
• The Hated House
• Angel-Face
• The Fated Interview
• The Locked Room
• About the Author
• Celia Fremlin Adverts
• Copyright