Ghost Gleams: Tales of the Uncanny

A wood fire on a wind-swept island. A little group of listeners bent toward the flames. And, unfolding slowly through the Sunday evening hours, the kind of story that ought not to be told aloud at all.

These fifteen ghostly tales range from the quietly unsettling to the frankly horrible. A scholar’s rosary of withered berries, gathered at the foot of a gallows, draws something dreadful into his quiet study. A bank of autumn fog over London teems with unseen, many-legged shapes. An ancient Sc...