Hauntings: Ghost stories to chill the spine...

[Ian Whates]

A caress when there's no one there to touch you... that sense of being watched by someone or something just beyond your perception... Hauntings; a collection of all new ghost stories coming soon from NewCon Press.

Cover art by Ben Baldwin​

Features original stories by:

Tanith Lee
Robert Shearman
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Liz Williams
Alison Littlewood
Sarah Singleton
Paul Kane
Marie O'Regan
Amanda Hemingway (aka Jan Siegel)
Kim Lakin-Smith
Mark West
Ian Whates
and more...

 

[Fried Egg]

This sounds very interesting Ian.

I didn't know you wrote ghost stories?

 

[Ian Whates]

FE, I actually adlibbed my story in front of a live audience and cameras, in an attempt to give it a more immediate feel. (I did have a basic idea in advance and a few cribnotes researched that morning.) When it came to actually writing the piece, I had to do so listening to a recording of the performance.

If you have a spare 11 minutes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJctPHXJop4

 

[Ian Whates]

I can now reveal the full ToC and cover of the book, which will be launched at Forbidden Planet in London on Saturday June 30th.

• Intro – Adele Wearing
• Don’t Listen – Ian Whates
• The Cradle in the Corner – Marie O’Regan
• On the Grey Road – Alison Littlewood
• Not a Cat Person – Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Fog on the Old Coast Road – Mark West
• Dark Peak – Kim Lakin-Smith
• The Things I See – Theresa Derwin
• Presence – Paul Kane
• Starcross – Liz Williams
• Forward and Back, Change Places – Marion Pitman
• Long Dene Mill – Sarah Singleton
• The White Otter – Amanda Hemingway
• The Ghost (In Two Letters) – Tanith Lee
• The Scariest Place in the World – Mark Morris
• Simon Harries – Robert Shearman
• About the Authors