Not on the Passenger List and Other Strange Stories

by Barry Pain

A distraught woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband on a voyage to England... or is she?

A billiard-room echoes to the sounds of a spectral game...

A haunted tower reveals its terrifying secret on Christmas Eve...

A family dog appears to foretell a terrible danger...

These are just some of the delights contained in this unsettling collection of supernatural stories from a master of the genre.

Genres: Fantasy

146 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2015

About the author

Born in Cambridge, Barry Eric Odell Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories.

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good collection of old-fashioned supernatural stories. I particularly liked "Smeath", about a man with clairvoyant powers who finally takes revenge on the showman who exploits his abilities, and "Zero", about a faithful dog who somehow knows whenever something bad is about to happen to his owner.

[Bethany Stewart · Rating 1 out of 5]

Weird stories and too dark for my liking!