Help the Witch

Tom Cox

ISBN 10: 1783528397 / ISBN 13: 9781783528394

Published by Unbound, 2019

About this Item

Tom Cox?s first steps into fiction, these short stories evoke their Peak District setting and elements of the inexplicable. Broad in scope and encompassing the future as well as the past, they include a hiker?s encounter with a robot, ghostly encounters and ?Folk Tales of the Twenty-Third Century?.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Help the Witch
• Publisher: Unbound
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783528397
• ISBN 13: 9781783528394
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

<p>Ghost stories for the 21st Century set in the dark dark country hedgerows and hills of England.<p><p>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.<p><p>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.<p></p></p></p></p></p></p>

About the Author

<p>Tom Cox lives in Norfolk. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The Good, The Bad and The Furry and the William Hill Sports Book longlisted Bring Me the Head of Sergio Garcia. 21st-Century Yokel was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and the titular story of Help the Witch won a Shirley Jackson Award.@cox_tom<p></p></p>