{"product_id":"the-haunting-season-the-instant-sunday-times-bestseller-and-the-perfect-companion-for-winter-nights","title":"The Haunting Season: The instant Sunday Times bestseller and the perfect companion for winter nights","description":"Product Description      \n Eight bestselling authors. A dazzling new collection of original haunted tales. This is your indispensable companion to the long, dark nights this winter.  THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER '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 'From today's finest writers of suspense, horror and historical fiction comes a chocolate-box collection of stories to savour alone or share . . . Best read by candlelight.' METRO ______________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 Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street |  Laura Purcell  Award-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 . . .______________'Makes you feel oddly cosy, in the way only the best ghost stories can. Exquisitely crafted, I enjoyed every word.' FRANCINE TOON, Sunday Times bestselling author of Pine   'Brilliantly chilling . . . an absolute treat' ANNA MAZZOLA, author of The Unseeing  'Gorgeous . . . a book destined to be read and re-read' AMANDA MASON, author of The Wayward Girls \n      Review      \nThe chilling tales of The Haunting Season will make you feel oddly cosy, in the way that only the best ghost stories can. Exquisitely crafted from some of the finest British writers, I enjoyed every word. -- Francine Toon, Sunday Times bestselling author of 'Pine'\n\n\nGorgeous, macabre, beautifully crafted . . .a brilliant re-making of an old tradition, and this is\na book destined to be read and re-read through many a long winter night -- Amanda Mason, author of 'The Wayward Girls'\n\n\nYou won't 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'\n\n\nIt lured me in, then held me fast. A gut-wrenching collection of ghostly tales, at once sumptuous and thrilling, rich and raw. Powerful, original and beautifully written, I didn't want them to end. -- Joanne Burn, author of 'The Hemlock Cure'\n\n\nThe Haunting Season contains stories by some of our finest contemporary writers - between them, they\nrevitalize the traditional winter's tale with vibrant, tense writing that will\nhaunt you long after you finish reading -- Jenn Ashworth, author of 'A Kind of Intimacy'\n\n\nThe Haunting Season was\nan absolute treat. Eight gloriously gothic and ghostly tales from some of our best historical writers. Spectral chess, haunted chairs and stories of survival and psychosis.\nBrilliantly chilling writing. -- Anna Mazzola, author of 'The Unseeing'\n\n\nFrom today's finest writers of suspense, horror and historical fictio","brand":"Sphere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39930996392021,"sku":"9780751581973N","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/83b494ef-a321-41b2-8179-e9e38dbffda5.jpg?v=1644913617","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-haunting-season-the-instant-sunday-times-bestseller-and-the-perfect-companion-for-winter-nights","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}