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9781800754454

Haunted Tales

Haunted Tales

by Adam Macqueen

Publisher Swift Press

Genre: Horror

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About the book

'A brilliantly eclectic mix of dark, unsettling tales' Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters

'Guaranteed to give you goosebumps' Best Magazine

'Inspired by all the great ghost story writers' BBC Open Book Editor's Pick

'Tis the season to be haunting

An unexpected and unwelcome voice on the world’s first radio broadcast in 1908. A son who won’t stop messaging his family on Facebook, although he’s been dead for quite some time now. A frozen forest in a far north land where the sinister elf-kin lurk in the snow.

A Scottish island where the locals make very sure their old folk don’t go hungry through the long winter.

Over the past two decades Adam Macqueen has sent a Haunted Tale to his family in place of a Christmas card. A collection in the grand tradition of ghost stories – to be read by the fire in the depths of winter – it proves that terror lurks in many places, and the dead take on infinite guises . . .

READER REVIEWS

'Spine-chilling'

'Dark and twisty'

'Pleasing terrors indeed'

‘An awesome collection … I loved how each story had its unique twist’ 

‘An amazingly spooky collection … Excellent’

‘What a wonderfully weird and unsettling collection of short stories this is!’

‘Fabulous … I can't recommend this book enough’

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About the Author

Adam Macqueen

Adam Macqueen is the author of books includingThe Prime Minister's Ironing BoardandThe Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit.The King of Sunlight, his biography of the soap manufacturer William Hesketh Lever, was named byThe Economistas one of its books of the year. He has contributed toPrivate Eyesince 1997, and wrote the bestselling history of the magazine which was published for its 50th anniversary in 2011. He has written two Tommy Wildeblood crime novels, published in 2020 and 2022.

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