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 on their new Persian carpet … An aunt feels an indefinable 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 aura that lurks beneath suburban Britain.