Nightcomers

by Susan Price

This collection is designed to chill your soul and haunt your mind, with nine stories of ghosts across time and lovers beyond the grave.

154 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so I did not realise this was a book of short stories. It took me up to the fourth story to realise they were not going to intersect. Shame really, because the first one was kind of dull but ended well and made me read on, the second made no sense, and the third started strangely and I was surprised by what teenagers were reading in the 90s because reading about a random old guy wasn't appealing at all - but then it got dark, real fast. It was great to read an LGBT+ story from the 90s, as the way people talk these days, you'd think they never existed before now. The story, Beautiful, was so compelling, I was getting goosebumps reading it. Then the fourth story, I thought was the history of the Beautiful guy in Beautiful and I thought we were getting his backstory, but nope! Suddenly we're into the next one and that's when I clicked it's a short story collection. The last few stories weren't great at all.
Crazy how I picked up this old book because I thought it was going to be a story about these Nightcomers, ghost horses on the moor, and the book would be something like Morpurgo's Where the Whales Came. The book was not that at all, and mostly not worth reading EXCEPT for that story: Beautiful. Wow, that one will stay with me for a long time.