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Film critic and speculative fiction author (and Neil Gaiman friend and collaborator) Kim Newman whose exuberant tales of the supernatural underworld, alternate Dracula tales and dizzying excursions into the bizarre have delighted me for ages, now takes a left hand turn and makes the ghost story his own. A disfunctional family moves from the big city to the quiet haven of the Somerset countryside. Their new home The Hollow greets them at first before the tide turns and dark waves of dread begin their systematic assault on their sanity and ties. Newman grabs a well-worn theme and breathes frantic new life into it, orchestrating the rise of horror with both a scalpel and a sharp knife until the tension becomes unbearable, proving how good horror tales are ageless. Not a book for dark nights.
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A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most - threatening to destroy them from the inside out.
An English Ghost Story features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Fiction
An English Ghost Story is available in Paperback
An English Ghost Story was written by Kim Newman and published by Titan Books Ltd
An English Ghost Story has 315 pages
£7.19
