'You won't find a more thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton

'You won't find a more thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Featuring new and original tales from:

Bridget Collins Sunday Times bestselling author of * The Binding |* Imogen Hermes Gowar Sunday Times bestselling author of * The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock |* Kiran Millwood Hargrave Sunday Times bestselling author of * The Mercies |* Andrew Michael Hurley Sunday Times bestselling author of * The Loney |Jess Kidd International award-winning author of Things in Jars |* Elizabeth Macneal Sunday Times bestselling author of * The Doll Factory |* Natasha Pulley Sunday Time s bestselling author of * The Watchmaker of Filigree Street |* Laura PurcellAward-winning author of* The Silent Companions *Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition, 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 ghost story.

Now eight 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 to the wild Yorkshire moors, 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 the cold, dark nights.** So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past...**