The Festival Line and Other Ghostly Tales

Love that delicious shiver you get with a good old fashioned ghost story? The sort they used to tell around a blazing fire on a winter's night? You don't have to go back hundreds of years to find it. This contemporary collection of short stories is mostly set in the modern era yet evokes the feeling of isolation from the days before the haunted and terrified had access to electric lights and smartphones.

Tales set in tube stations, on film sets, in laboratories, housing estates and wine ba...