Help the Witch

Cox, Tom

ISBN 10: 1783526696 / ISBN 13: 9781783526697

Published by Unbound, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Help the Witch

Publisher: Unbound

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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. R. James and E. F. Benson.

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.

Review:

'Often unnerving, frequently funny and always original, the tangled roots of these haunted stories reach into deep, dark places to unearth an alternative England. Cleverly crafted and always unexpected, Tom Cox brilliantly brings the ghost story into the twenty-first century... and beyond' Benjamin Myers, author of The Gallows Pole