An oral history of Margaret and the village by Matthew and five others. Listings -- Speed awareness -- Nine tiny stories about houses -- The pool -- Robot -- Just good friends -- Folk tales of the Twenty-third Century -- Seance -- An oral history of Margaret and the village by Matthew and five others.
Summary:
Ghost stories for the 21st Century set in the dark dark country hedgerows and hills of England. As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across hills and hedgerows, shadows appear where figures are not; things do not remain in their places; a new home is punctured by abandoned objects; a watering hole conceals depths greater than its swimmers can fathom. Riddled with talismans and portents, saturated by shadows beneath trees and whispers behind doors, these ten stories broaden the scope of folk tales as we know them. Inspired by our native landscapes and traversing boundaries of the past and future, this collection is Tom Cox's first foray into fiction. Funny, strange and poignant, it elicits the unexpected and unseen to raise our hackles and set imaginations whirring.-- Amazon.
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