Moonstone

Laura Purcell

Magpie

HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

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.\nNow 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.\nFrom 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.\nSo curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season . . .\nFeaturing new and original tales from:\nBridget Collins 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding\nImogen Hermes Gowar 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock\nKiran Millwood Hargrave 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies\nAndrew Michael Hurley 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loney\nJess Kidd 
International award-winning author of Things in Jars\nElizabeth Macneal 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory\nNatasha Pulley 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street\nLaura Purcell 
Award-winning author of The Silent Companions

The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

Literature & Fiction

Bridget Collins

Andrew Michael Hurley

Natasha Pulley

Jess Kidd

Kiran Millwood-Hargrave

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Elizabeth Macneal

Literary

SPHERE

As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club. Curl up with gothic chiller The Silent Companions this winter, and send a shiver down your spine... Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure - a Silent Companion - that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...

The Silent Companions: As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club

Raven Books

The Corset EXPORT

The Corset: a perfect chilling read to curl up with this Autumn

The new Victorian chiller from the author of Radio 2 Book Club pick, The Silent Companions.\nIs prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain?\nDorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder.\nWhen Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted with the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets teenage seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another theory: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread. For Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches.\nThe story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations – of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses – will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality and the power of redemption.\nCan Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?

The Corset

Romance

Romantic Suspense

Whispering Muse

It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact with Melpomene, the tragic muse of Greek mythology, to become the greatest actress to ever grace the stage. Suspicious of Lilith, the jealous wife of the theatre owner sends dresser Jenny to spy on her, and desperate for the money to help her family, Jenny agrees.\nWhat Jenny finds is a woman as astonishing in her performance as she is provocative in nature. On stage, it's as though Lilith is possessed by the characters she plays, yet off stage she is as tragic as the Muse who inspires her, and Jenny, sorry for her, befriends the troubled actress. But when strange events begin to take place around the theatre, Jenny wonders if the rumours are true, and fears that when the Muse comes calling for payment, the cost will be too high.

Whispering Muse TPB ex/air

Bloomsbury UK

The Whispering Muse: The most spellbinding gothic novel of the year, packed with passion and suspense

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