There are plenty of spooky and atmospheric tales in this book! All written by different authors, it is great to see different approaches to the winter ghost story tradition.

My personal favourite was The Eel Singers by Natasha Pulley. I loved the mystery and whimsy of it, and I thought it had the best resolution of all the stories. I’ll definitely be looking into some of her other books! Most of the stories are quite traditional in their historical setting and I liked that this one took a completely different approach.

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My least favourite was The Chillingham Chair by Laura Purcell. The idea of a haunted wheelchair, that moved its user around on its own, just didn’t sit well with me. I found the whole story very uncomfortable – and not in a creepy, spooky story way! With the way the story ended, I can sort of see what the author was trying to do, but I don’t think it was executed very well.

Anthologies are always a lottery, especially when lots of different authors are featured! And while I don’t think I will return to this one cover-to-cover, there are certainly stories in here that I will return to again.