Help The Witch - Hardcover

Tom, Cox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783526696 ISBN 13: 9781783526697

Publisher: Unbound, 2018

Synopsis

'These stories are a delight' Guardian

'Often unnerving, frequently funny and always original, the tangled roots of these haunted stories reach into deep, dark places to unearth an alternative England' Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing

'Everyone should read Help the Witch – funny, odd, moving, haunting . . . Brings so much emotion and humour to horror' Isy Suttie

As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across hills and hedgerows, shadows appear where figures are not; things do not remain in their places; a new home is punctured by abandoned objects; a watering hole conceals depths greater than its swimmers can fathom.

Riddled with talismans and portents, saturated by shadows beneath trees and whispers behind doors, these ten stories broaden the scope of folk tales as we know them. Inspired by our native landscapes and traversing boundaries of the past and future, this collection is Tom Cox's first foray into fiction. Funny, strange and poignant, it elicits the unexpected and unseen to raise our hackles and set imaginations whirring.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Cox lives in Devon. His debut novel Villager was published by Unbound in 2022. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Good, The Bad and The Furry and the William Hill Sports Book longlisted Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia. 21st-Century Yokel was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and the titular story of Help the Witch won a Shirley Jackson Award.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Unbound
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783526696
• ISBN 13: 9781783526697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208