The Ghastling

A ghostly hitchhiker forces a lonely traveller to question all that is real in Mat Troy's thought-provoking story, 'Nancy'. 

Living by a remote moor, disillusioned by play-groups and the education system, Frankie decides to home educate her young children, but the task of parenting becomes relentless - too relentless. So Frankie, having consulted a grimoire, finds another truly petrifying way to cope. In Charlotte Turnbull's folk horror, 'Sharing Stone'. 

A mother and her 14-year-old daughter live alone in a remote house. The mother must leave her daughter while she goes off to work night shifts; one day three strands of horse-hair appear on the mother's pillow and strange hoof tracks in the snow encircle the house in this truly eerie tale, 'Five Knocks' by Fawn Emmalee Ward. 

Two housemates think the other is the perpetrator of strange noises in the attic. Their neighbours, too, are suspicious. A beautifully creepy and subtle exploration of what might haunt us in Ashley Harnett's,  'It Was Nothing'. 

A house-bound and miserable man starts to notice a peregrine falcon is terrorising and killing the pigeons that visit him in his block of flats. He soon realises there's a lot more to gain from feeding the birds in Simon John Parkin's 'Peregrination'. 

A woman receives the news that someone very dear to her has been found dead. Grief-stricken and unable to comprehend the news, she does what she would normally do: heads to the swimming pool - she was going anyway. As she swims, she starts to hear something recognisable, yet very strange, in the water. In Katherine Stansfield's, 'The Call'. 

Ever been to a house viewing and wondered who'd lived there before and what happened to them? One prospective tenant is given a viewing that haunts them long-after in Alex Gillinder's, 'The Viewing'.

The son of a wealthy baron returns to the home he would rather forget. But unfortunately it seems his dead wife walks again and something must be done, in Emma Oxley's tale of the unquiet dead, 'The Return.'