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The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Bridget Collins, Laura Purcell, Sara Collins, Natasha Pulley
If you are part of the book twitter community, this is a book that you have no doubt seen a lot of posts about and rightly so, because this book is the perfect winter companion in my eyes and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy!
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings.
Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales.
From a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire, from a country estate with a dreadful secret, to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death, these are stories to make your hair stand on end, send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter.
So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season...
I found the stories in this short story collection to be genuinely scary. Each story featured a different type of supernatural element and they all seemed to all be set in the 19th century(?) which added to the dark, spooky aesthetic which the book created.
I really enjoyed the fact that each story also had a sort of ‘moral’ to the story which always became evident towards the end. Saying that, I think the tale I most enjoyed was the one written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (author of The Mercies) because the story was not only terrifying but based on a true journal entry by a woman who was placed in a psychiatric hospital, as well as raising awareness for psychotic depression, which Kiran herself suffered from.
I also really enjoyed the Lily Wilt story which is about the ghost of a young woman manipulating a young man to bring her back from the dead. The story, albeit not as scary as the other, was actually humorous in its portrayal of men being manipulated by a beautiful, young woman to do the unthinkable just by the power of her beauty.
Yet, now I’ve started thinking about picking my favourite story, it has reminded me how equally brilliant each story is so if you want me to pick my favourite, you’re going to have to read it yourself and decide for me. Trust me, you will not be disappointed.
READ THIS IF :
Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings.
Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales.
From a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire, from a country estate with a dreadful secret, to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death, these are stories to make your hair stand on end, send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter.
So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season...
I found the stories in this short story collection to be genuinely scary. Each story featured a different type of supernatural element and they all seemed to all be set in the 19th century(?) which added to the dark, spooky aesthetic which the book created.
I really enjoyed the fact that each story also had a sort of ‘moral’ to the story which always became evident towards the end. Saying that, I think the tale I most enjoyed was the one written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (author of The Mercies) because the story was not only terrifying but based on a true journal entry by a woman who was placed in a psychiatric hospital, as well as raising awareness for psychotic depression, which Kiran herself suffered from.
I also really enjoyed the Lily Wilt story which is about the ghost of a young woman manipulating a young man to bring her back from the dead. The story, albeit not as scary as the other, was actually humorous in its portrayal of men being manipulated by a beautiful, young woman to do the unthinkable just by the power of her beauty.
Yet, now I’ve started thinking about picking my favourite story, it has reminded me how equally brilliant each story is so if you want me to pick my favourite, you’re going to have to read it yourself and decide for me. Trust me, you will not be disappointed.
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