Haunted Tales

A brilliantly eclectic mix of dark, unsettling tales Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters

Guaranteed to give you goosebumps Best Magazine

Atmospheric collection of spooky stories Observer

A lovely present The Spectator

Inspired by all the great ghost story writers BBC Open Book Editor's Pick

An unexpected and unwelcome voice on the world's first radio broadcast in 1908. A son who won't stop messaging his family on Facebook, although he's been dead for quite some time now. A frozen forest in a far north land where the sinister elf-kin lurk in the snow.

A Scottish island where the locals make very sure their old folk don't go hungry through the long winter.

Over the past two decades, Adam Macqueen has sent a Haunted Tale to his family in place of a Christmas card. A collection in the grand tradition of ghost stories - to be read by the fire in the depths of winter - it proves that terror lurks in many places, and the dead take on infinite guises...

READER REVIEWS

Spine-chilling

Dark and twisty

Pleasing terrors indeed

An awesome collection ... I loved how each story had its unique twist

An amazingly spooky collection ... Excellent

What a wonderfully weird and unsettling collection of short stories this is!

Fabulous ... I can't recommend this book enough