Sarob Press is pleased to present a bumper first hardcover collection of ghostly stories by Michael Chislett. These thirteen stories are mostly set in or around the author’s fictional London borough of Milford and the suburb of Mabbs End (possibly some of the most haunted of London locations). Although Mr Chislett’s very original voice shines brightly in every story, a few also subtly (or not so) reveal his influences ... especially Angela Carter, MR James & Arthur Machen. Some of the stories have previously appeared in the excellent Supernatural Tales magazine (edited by David Longhorn) and some in Rosemary Pardoe’s superb Ghosts & Scholars journal. “The Old Geezers” previously appeared in The Silent Companion (the fiction journal of “A Ghostly Company”). The novelette “The Changelings” and the story “Held in Common” are both original to this volume.
These are not your usual hauntings ... in the city of ghosts there are no rules. And not everything is as it might, at first, appear.
There is darkness ... and there is light ... and, often, it’s not easy to spot the difference!
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Sarob Press is pleased to present a bumper first hardcover collection of ghostly stories by Michael Chislett. These thirteen stories are mostly set in or around the author’s…
Introduced by Mike Ashley. Jacket Art by Richard Gray.
THE BLOOD MONTH In 1030 AD, King Olaf of Norway, a Christian Viking, driven from his homeland two years previously, returns with a small band of warriors, and attempts to overthrow the pagan administration set up in his absence by the ruthless King Sveyn of Denmark.
TWILIGHT IN THE ORM-GARTH It is the spring of 1070, and the Norman baron, Dagobert of Caux, is celebrating his fiftieth birthday at his stronghold, Wulfbury Castle, on England’s eastern coast. But this will not be a happy occasion. For a fearsome being is also headed for Wulfbury, a being whose hellish appearance and brutish nature encapsulate all that once was savage and barbarous about ancient, pagan Britain.
Out of print from the publisher. 220 copies printed in total. Publisher no longer in business.
Contains the novellas:
THE BLOOD MONTH & TWILIGHT IN THE ORM-GARTH.
Introduced by Mike Ashley. Jacket Art by Richard Gray.
15 ghostly and supernatural tales, mostly set in east Anglia and narrated by the regulars and visitors to The Endeavour.
Mr Johnson’s stories have appeared previously in the annual Year’s Best Horror anthologies, in Rosemary Pardoe’s Haunted Library publications, and elsewhere. This volume is a must for all admirers of Jamesian and traditional ghostly /supernatural fiction.
15 ghostly and supernatural tales, mostly set in east Anglia and narrated by the regulars and visitors to The Endeavour.
Mr Johnson’s stories have appeared previously in the…
