The Haunting Season

Eight bestselling authors. A dazzling new collection of original haunted tales. This is your indispensable companion to the long, dark nights this October. 'You won't find a more thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa

Jess, who is able to talk to ghosts, visits the haunted Siler House for a month-long study on the paranormal, and discovers that each of her fellow test subjects have their own supernatural powers, and that dark forces within the house are determined to keep them there forever.

Eight bestselling, award-winning writers return to the time-honored tradition of the seasonal ghost story in this spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales. Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather

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