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Halloween and Ghost Short Story Collection
Paperback
Publisher: Barrel Coops
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some stories survive because they are remembered. Others survive because they are waiting.
Across Britain, old warnings linger in forgotten places. A lantern flickers over a silent Norfolk marsh. Something ancient feeds on the colour and life of Camden at Halloween. An abandoned school refuses to surrender its dead, while a lonely house keeps memories far more faithfully than any living mind. Standing stones, village traditions, old rituals and local legends have endured for generations.
Most sensible people stopped believing in them long ago.
That may have been a mistake.
In these twelve tales of ghosts, folklore and supernatural horror, ordinary people encounter things that should belong safely to the past. Researchers go searching for explanations. Sceptics demand evidence. Artists follow inspiration too far. Travellers take journeys from which they may never return. Some discover that history has been waiting for someone to listen. Others learn that certain traditions survived for a very good reason.
From mist-covered marshes and remote coastal villages to the streets of London and the hidden places beneath Edinburgh, each story opens a different door into the unknown. Behind them wait restless spirits, ancient bargains, impossible memories and forces that do not care whether you believe in them.
Some doors can be closed again.
Some cannot.
And as Halloween approaches, when old stories insist the boundary between the living and the dead grows thin, perhaps the safest thing is to remember why those stories were told in the first place.
Turn the page. Follow the light. Enter the house.
Just don't assume you'll be the one who decides when the story ends.
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