Author Description

"Something strange is happening on British shores ... Britain's long history of folk tales, ghost stories and other uncanny fictions shimmers beneath the surface of this green and pleasant land. Every few generations the strangeness crawls out from the dark places of the British imagination, among literary ley lines, seeping into our art and culture. We are living through such a time. This collection of seventeen new horror stories and weird fictions draws upon the landscape and history of the British Isles. They walk the realms of folklore and legend but are firmly rooted in the present, calling to the country's forgotten spaces. The ghostly figures half-hidden by mist, the shadows in city corners and the violence of the sea, battering the coastline relentlessly. The land dreams them all."--Provided by publisher