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 bars, dealing with themes of obsessive love, murder, domestic violence, vivisection and OCD - dark enough among the living, but in the hands of the dead...?

But we haven't forgotten the good old fashioned ghost story. To complete the circle, this collection concludes with a short novella that pays homage to the original genre. Set in the early reign of Victoria, the tale takes us to an isolated inn on the edge of the Lincolnshire marshes where heavy footsteps dog a young woman's sleep, and the arrival of a man who was supposedly murdered there exactly fifty years earlier puts everyone on edge...