It wasn’t scary at all but it was certainly eerie, the stories play with the reader’s imagination, you think it is going one way and it gets twisted right around on you, this happens particularly well in easily the best story in the collection, “Just Good Friends”, it was very clever how that story unfolded.Ī lot of these “ghosts” aren’t ghosts in the traditional sense, these are more like memories attached to a place or a location. What I Says: A collection of ghost stories written by a nature writer and I have to admit it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Railway tunnels, the lanes and hills of the Peak District, family homes, old stones, shreds fluttering on barbed wire, night drawing in, something that might be an animal shifting on the other side of a hedge: Tom has drawn on his life-long love of weird fiction, folklore and nature’s unregarded corners to write a collection of stories that will delight fans old and new, and leave them very uneasy about turning the reading lamp off. What Da Cover Says: Inspired by our native landscapes, saturated by the shadows beneath trees and behind doors, listening to the run of water and half-heard voices, Tom Cox s first collection of short stories is a series of evocative and unsettling trips into worlds previously visited by the likes of M.
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