IT’S GIVING HAUNTING THIS SEASON

‘A brilliantly eclectic mix of dark, unsettling tales’ Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters

'A delight from start to finish. Adam MacQueen demonstrates a wonderful variety of voice and tone, and a great affection for the form, lacing these tales with genuine chills. He has created a wonderfully seasonal treat - exactly the kind of book you want to curl up with as the winter nights draw in' - Amanda Mason, author of The Wayward Girls

'A unique and terrifying collection of ghost stories with twists I never saw coming. A book to be read by the fireside in the cold winter nights. Just don't look up at the shadows!' - Carly Reagon, author of The Toll House

Adam Macqueen's first collection of ghost stories will be released in time for Halloween. First written and sent in place of Christmas cards to the author’s family over the past two decades, this collection proves that terror lurks in many different and unexpected places, and the dead take on infinite guises.

An unexpected and unwelcome voice on the world's first radio broadcast in 1908. A son who won't stop messaging his family on Facebook, although he's been dead for quite some time now. A frozen forest in a far north land where the sinister elf-kin lurk in the snow. A Scottish island where the locals make very sure their old folk don’t go hungry through the long winter. And an ordinary North London bedsit that would be perfect – if it weren't for the dreadful noises from the upstairs neighbours.

Haunted Tales is a must-read for fans of Hammer Horror, Neil Gaiman, the Uncanny podcast, Inside Number Nine, and of course, the master of the Christmas ghost story, M.R. James. This is a collection in the grand tradition of ghost stories – to be read by the fire in the depths of winter and perfectly timed for the spooky season and readers looking for their next trick or treat…

About the author

Adam Macqueen is the author of books including The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit. The King of Sunlight, his biography of the soap manufacturer William Hesketh Lever, was named by The Economist as one of its books of the year. He has contributed to Private Eye since 1997, and wrote the bestselling history of the magazine which was published for its 50th anniversary in 2011. He has written two Tommy Wildeblood crime novels, published in 2020 and 2022.