Joan Aiken is perhaps best known for the classic The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, a book which like all the best children’s tales contains elements of darkness. This is probably the first time This Is Horror has featured an author whose publishing credits include Good Housekeeping, Vogue and Women’s Own. Here are tales of suspense and the supernatural that will chill, amuse, and exhilarate.įeatures a new introduction by the late author’s daughter, Lizza Aiken. Here is the whisper in the night, the dog whose loyalty outlasted death, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound that raises goose-flesh, the wish you’d checked the lock on the door before dark fell. Look Out For… The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken “Written a constantly engaging and evocative style, full of twists, turns and note-perfect endings.”
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