The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson
A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.
The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson
'Always passionate and provocative'
NEW STATESMAN
'One of the wittiest writers around today'
NATASHA PULLEY, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.
To live amongst us.
To remind us.
To tempt us.
To take their revenge.
These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson
A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.
The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson
'Always passionate and provocative'
NEW STATESMAN
'One of the wittiest writers around today'
NATASHA PULLEY, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.
To live amongst us.
To remind us.
To tempt us.
To take their revenge.
These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
In the stories Winterson is at her best, unsurprisingly, when doing
new things with the form
*The Times*
A thought-provoking collection of short stories, interspersed with
memories of her own unexplained encounters with the paranormal… The
theme that runs through all the stories is loss and how it haunts
the living
*Daily Mirror*
Thought-provoking... A captivating and chilling collection
examining grief, revenge and how technology can breach the boundary
between life and death
*Sunday Express*
Spine-chillingly good
*i*
Jeanette Winterson brings the classic gothic literature theme into
the 21st century by imagining what happens when the undead have to
find modern ways to reach out to us... This collection is as
hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty and
thought-provoking
*Independent*
Winterson the artist at her most potent, melding the viscerally
real with the lavishly supernatural
*Guardian*
I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the
wittiest writers around today… I can't think of any other writer
who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and
pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson
that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very
happy!
*Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street*
A collection of ghost stories that range from campfire-level spooks
to speculative reflections on the meaning of life.. As challenging
and entertaining as anything undertaken by this endlessly ingenious
writer
*Los Angeles Times*
At the height of spooky season, turn off the lights and immerse
yourself in the spine-tingling delights of this frighteningly
modern ghost story collection. Blurring the lines between
nonfiction and campfire tale, this one imagines what would happen
if there really was a ghost in the machine
*Good Housekeeping*
This collection is as hair-raising and suspenseful as it is witty
and thought-provoking
*UK Press Syndication*
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