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Nightcomers: Eight Eerie Stories
The beautiful and the uncanny…
A young blacksmith is hired to spend Midsummer’s Night in a lonely field, near an ancient mound, to shoe with silver the horses of ‘those who come by’…
A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide – and after her death she follows her faithless lover home…
In the echoing, eerie surroundings of an out-of-hours shopping mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger…
A family gather at the bedside of a dying girl, and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window…
A man walks home, in the early hours, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog…
A young actor playing James Dean in a bio-pic, hates that people are impressed by his looks rather than his talent. Then he’s offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, ‘130.’
A holiday cottage holds memories of despair…
And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story.
Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.
Beautifully uncanny...
Praise for NIGHTCOMERS from Philip Pullman
'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.' (PHILIP PULLMAN, THE GUARDIAN )
Download a free sample, or click on ‘Look Inside’ to try the book.
Susan Price is an acclaimed author of over 60 books, which have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Russian. She has won several awards, including the Carnegie and the Guardian, and has been short-listed for the Whitbread.
She is a founder member of the Authors Electric Collective (Find them on-line.)
Visit her Amazon Author Page to find out more about her books, and links to her website and blogs.
A young blacksmith is hired to spend Midsummer’s Night in a lonely field, near an ancient mound, to shoe with silver the horses of ‘those who come by’…
A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide – and after her death she follows her faithless lover home…
In the echoing, eerie surroundings of an out-of-hours shopping mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger…
A family gather at the bedside of a dying girl, and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window…
A man walks home, in the early hours, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog…
A young actor playing James Dean in a bio-pic, hates that people are impressed by his looks rather than his talent. Then he’s offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, ‘130.’
A holiday cottage holds memories of despair…
And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story.
Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.
Beautifully uncanny...
Praise for NIGHTCOMERS from Philip Pullman
'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.' (PHILIP PULLMAN, THE GUARDIAN )
Download a free sample, or click on ‘Look Inside’ to try the book.
Susan Price is an acclaimed author of over 60 books, which have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Russian. She has won several awards, including the Carnegie and the Guardian, and has been short-listed for the Whitbread.
She is a founder member of the Authors Electric Collective (Find them on-line.)
Visit her Amazon Author Page to find out more about her books, and links to her website and blogs.
134 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 1997
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December 3, 2022
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.
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.
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