Full Description
Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories is a darkly humorous collection of twelve ghost stories for grown-ups offering modern takes on the classic British supernatural tradition - including:*
There's a tale with a plan to expose fraudulent clairvoyants that leads
to unexpectedly grave consequences.
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A Gothic horror featuring the biblical Witch of Endor.
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Lady Thatcher a-haunting Downing Street and freaking out recent prime
ministers, including the present incumbent, Sir Keir Starmer.
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A murder mystery set in an old manor house where a symposium on the
Victorian ghost tale is taking place.
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A creepy Halloween homage to M.R. James.
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A laugh-out-loud farce involving a frolicsome Hattie Jacques taking up
ghostly residence in the downstairs toilet of two gay bears.
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Plus Christmas angels, unaccountable shadows and a theatre ghost!
All twelve stories have lavish, full colour
digital paintings by Spitting Image artist and illustrator, Scott
Brooker.
Contents
Introduction - The Collection
The Oath of Aesculapius
'It's What She Would Have Wanted'
The Portrait of a Looking-Glass
Visiting Hattie
The Final Fake
The Return of the Handbag
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'I Was Once a Haunted House'
The Strange Case of the Unaccountable Shadow,
For the Hell of It
The Ghost Light
Who Fed the Cat?
Under the Mistletoe
Appendix I - Thoughts on the Ghost Tale
Appendix II - A Yelly Nada in Polari
Appendix III - Transcripts of two lectures given at the Claverley Manor
Conference Centre symposium: 'The Ghosts of Many Worlds'.
