Spine-chillingly creepy Halloween tales of horror from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: <\/i>the ‘grandmother of psycho-domestic noir’ (Sunday Times<\/i>) for fans of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith and Stranger Things.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin.’ <\/b>Telegraph<\/i>
‘Grips like grim death.’ <\/b>Spectator<\/i><\/p>\n
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 …<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
In the high flats, up near the clouds, Hilda and her baby twins reach a fateful end …<\/b>
An aunt feels foreboding about her niece’s new fiance – but the darkness comes from within …<\/b>
A haunted babysitter experiences a little girl’s terror of The Hen With The Great Big Eyes …<\/b>
One teenage girl’s evening home alone is ruined by a mysterious unexpected visitor …<\/b>
A little boy’s obsession with angels leads to a dramatic metamorphosis …<\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
‘Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark’ was the first gathering of Celia Fremlin’s short fiction, a form in which she had published prolifically while building her reputation as a novelist of psychological suspense. Female characters predominate in these tales, as does the doom-filled atmosphere that was Fremlin’s metier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[406],"product_tag":[1102,2695,27041],"class_list":["post-105863","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-crime-thrillers","product_tag-classic-horror-ghost-stories","product_tag-ghosts-poltergeists","product_tag-horror-supernatural-fiction","pa_book_author-fremlin-celia","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-823-914-edition23","pa_edition-short-stories","pa_imprint-faber-faber","pa_language-english","pa_pages-11194","pa_publisher-faber-faber","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n