Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
Haunted Tales - Ghostly stories for the darkest nights - cover

Haunted Tales - Ghostly stories for the darkest nights

Adam Macqueen

Publisher: Swift Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

'A brilliantly eclectic mix of dark, unsettling tales' Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters
'Guaranteed to give you goosebumps' BestMagazine
'Atmospheric collection of spooky stories' Observer
'Inspired by all the great ghost story writers' BBC Open Book Editor's Pick
'Tis the season to be haunting
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'
Available since: 10/24/2024.
Print length: 224 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Dead Bolt - cover

    Dead Bolt

    Juliet Blackwell

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Turner Construction's latest restoration project is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Francisco. This time, general contractor Mel Turner has to work around the owners, who insist on sticking around—along with some ghosts that insist in their own way that the work stops.The ghosts aren't the only ones standing in the way of the renovations. A crotchety neighbor, Emile Blunt, secretly wants this house and could be behind some of the disturbances. But when Emile is found dead, it's Mel who appears guilty. Now she must restore the building—and her reputation—before it's too late.
    Show book
  • The Lifted Veil - cover

    The Lifted Veil

    George Eliot

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A man falls in love with his brother’s wife. When his brother dies, he marries the new widow. But is the love meant to be?
    Show book
  • The La Croix Fragments - cover

    The La Croix Fragments

    Kelly Logue

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Keep your imaginary friends close, but your imaginary enemies closer… 
In this torrid tale of an imagination gone wild.
    Show book
  • The Duchess and the Accidental Thief - cover

    The Duchess and the Accidental...

    Scott A. Clark

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Martin Alcott, an out of work IT Engineer, can’t shake his recurring nightmares of skyscrapers and cathedrals. This morning’s dream was different, though: he’s now certain he’s being watched. Halfway up London’s newest high-rise, Martin arrives promptly for his first job interview in weeks, only to find the office empty in more ways than one. 
Meanwhile, The Duchess, a powerful and enigmatic woman, sits at her desk high in her tower mansion. A panicked phone call alerts her to a deviation in her meticulous plan, and she sees a stranger on her security cameras. She's stunned to realize… 
I’ve seen that face before.
    Show book
  • GRIMM - Little Red Riding Hood - cover

    GRIMM - Little Red Riding Hood

    Benni Bødker, Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    This is the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood - the story about a little girl who wears a red cloak, on her way to visit her ill grandmother. On her way, she decides to pick some flowers for her grandma. She meets the charming and well spoken wolf, who is more than happy to accompany her…
    Show book
  • A Twist of Fate - cover

    A Twist of Fate

    Kelley Armstrong

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Three years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she's found her way back.The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes of answering her questions before showing up on his doorstep. Instead, a twist of fate has her mistaken for her young son's new governess.Rosalind has every intention of revealing herself as soon as August returns home from business. Until then, she'll get to know her son, a quiet child who has inexplicably been abandoned by an endless stream of governesses. That's when the hauntings begin. Rosalind has finally come home and something—or someone—doesn't just want her gone. They want her dead.
    Show book