Eight best-selling 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 best seller

Featuring new and original tales from:

Bridget Collins: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Binding

Imogen Hermes Gowar: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Kiran Millwood Hargrave: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Mercies

Andrew Michael Hurley: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Loney

Jess Kidd: international award-winning author of Things in Jars

Elizabeth Macneal: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Doll Factory

Natasha Pulley: Sunday Times best-selling 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 best-selling, 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 cold, dark nights.

So curl up, light a candle and fall under the spell of winters past....