Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark

Spine-chillingly creepy Halloween tales of horror from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: the ''grandmother of psycho-domestic noir'' ( Sunday Times ) for fans of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith and Stranger Things. ''Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin.'' Telegraph ''Grips like grim death.'' Spectator I tried to open my mouth to call out again; but it was not my mouth that opened; it was a great beak, jutting out of my face, cruel and curved like a bird of prey ... In the high flats, up near the clouds, Hilda and her baby twins reach a fateful end ... An aunt feels foreboding about her niece''s new fiance - but the darkness comes from within ... A haunted babysitter experiences a little girl''s terror of The Hen With The Great Big Eyes ... One teenage girl''s evening home alone is ruined by a mysterious unexpected visitor ... A little boy''s obsession with angels leads to a dramatic metamorphosis ... Celia Fremlin''s classic Gothic story collection is a masterpiece of psychological horror, mining the darkest elements of marriage, childhood, and ageing; probing paranoia, grief and toxic relationships; inviting the ghosts of the past into our present; and exploring the nightmarish secret impulses and supernatural forces lurking beneath suburban Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Celia Fremlin, Fremlin Celia
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.10.2024
• EAN: 9780571391288
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39128-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Holidays, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, FICTION / Ghost, Hallowe’en, Horror and supernatural fiction, Ghosts and poltergeists, Classic horror and ghost stories, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Supernatural (inc Ghosts)