In this new collection of eleven stories, Stephen Volk explores the wide span of possibilities of the ghost story in its various manifestationsfrom hauntings set in the quotidian modern world, to ones that hark back to traditional, but no less chilling, tales of the past.When battlescarred army veterans are recruited for an archaeological dig in Wiltshire, more than bones are unearthed, in Unrecovered. A pleasure park becomes anything but pleasurable in Three Fingers, One Thumb. In 31/10 a notorious, fateful BBC TV studio is revisited, while in The Waiting Room a supernatural encounter makes Charles Dickens himself come to question both his creative inspiration and his fundamental beliefs.Three brand new stories are included here The Crossing, Baby on Board, and Lost Loved Onesthe latter novella being a sequel to Volks television series Afterlife and a welcome return for him to the muchloved character of Alison Mundy, the troubled psychic medium, in a world postCovid.As with the rest of the book, these have the authors trademark mixture of horror and heartbreak (Nathan Ballingrud) qualities that have earned him praise as one of our genres foremost practitioners in the short form (Peter Tennant, Black Static) and one of the most provocative and unsettling of contemporary writers (Andy Hedgecock, Interzone).

Binding: Paperback;286 pages; Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP; Classification: N/A; Weight: 544.11 g; Dimensions: N/A

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