The Haunting Season

The instant Sunday Times bestseller and the perfect companion for winter nights

By: Bridget Collins, Natasha Pulley, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Imogen Hermes Gowar

Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Juliet Stevenson, Rory Kinnear, Rosalind Eleazar

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Eight best-selling authors. A dazzling new collection of original haunted tales. This is your indispensable companion to the long, dark nights this winter.

The instant Sunday Times best seller

Featuring new and original tales from:

Bridget Collins: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Binding

Imogen Hermes Gowar: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock

Kiran Millwood Hargrave: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Mercies

Andrew Michael Hurley: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Loney

Jess Kidd: international award-winning author of Things in Jars

Elizabeth Macneal: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Doll Factory

Natasha Pulley: Sunday Times best-selling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

Laura Purcell: award-winning author of The Silent Companions

Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a ghost story.

Now eight best-selling, award-winning authors - all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling tales.

Taking you from the frosty Fens to the wild Yorkshire moors, to the snow-covered grounds of a haunted estate, to a bustling London Christmas market, these mesmerizing stories will capture your imagination and serve as your indispensable companion to cold, dark nights.

So curl up, light a candle and fall under the spell of winters past....

©2021 Natasha Pulley, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Bridget Collins, Laura Purcell, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"Gorgeous...a book destined to be read and re-read." (Amanda Mason, author of The Wayward Girls)

"Makes you feel oddly cosy, in the way only the best ghost stories can. Exquisitely crafted, I enjoyed every word." (Francine Toon, Sunday Times best-selling author of Pine)

"You won't find a more thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who have mastered the gothic and ghostly" (Sara Collins, Costa Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton)