Tom Cox

Tom Tom

A collection of folk ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling author Tom Cox.

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Janice Hopper

What lovely, quirky stories! I saw this author on Twitter and was curious about his work. 

These stories prompted me to do more of something I do rarely: highlight passages to remember.

Like this:
 People are expected to be the same person all their life, but different places make us different people. 

Or this:
 ... she would always feel oddly grateful to the property world as, had she never been in it, she would never have recoiled from it in such a way that prompted her to boldly do something she had always really wanted to do, which was dye her hair blue and play the harp.

I really enjoyed the subtle things that happen here. I did find that I preferred to read a bit and think a bit, instead of reading straight through.

A delightful find, will look for more by Mr. Cox.

A well-written, immersive and eerie collection of ghost stories, ideal listening for Halloween weekend. An excellent mix of folklore, the unsettling atmosphere of old houses and isolated locations, and the challenges of modern life, richly imagined and evocatively described, with plenty of dark humour.

Laura Dobie

McKinley Valentine

'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 Gallows Pole 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.

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