Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories
Twelve Spooky Tales of Supernatural Strangeness and Weirdly Wonderful Goings On
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd
Published:28th Oct '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories is a darkly humorous collection of twelve ghost stories for grown-ups offering modern takes on the classic British supernatural tradition - including:*
There's a tale with a plan to expose fraudulent clairvoyants that leads to unexpectedly grave consequences.
* A Gothic horror featuring the biblical Witch of Endor.
* Lady Thatcher a-haunting Downing Street and freaking out recent prime ministers, including the present incumbent, Sir Keir Starmer.
* A murder mystery set in an old manor house where a symposium on the Victorian ghost tale is taking place.
* A creepy Halloween homage to M.R. James.
* A laugh-out-loud farce involving a frolicsome Hattie Jacques taking up ghostly residence in the downstairs toilet of two gay bears.
* Plus Christmas angels, unaccountable shadows and a theatre ghost!
All twelve stories have lavish, full colour digital paintings by Spitting Image artist and illustrator, Scott Brooker.
'One of our best impersonators has now found his voice as a writer - stories full of wit, character and intrigue, as entertaining as any of Steve's characters.' Rory Bremner,
'FABULOUS. Fascinating tales. Fascinating writing. Fascinating wit. Steve Nallon has a HIT... Needs to be show, Netflix are you listening?' Christian Dion,
'Steve Nallon's "It's What She Would Have Wanted" is funny, relatable and spookily familiar - finding the funny in death is no mean feat and Nallon has done it - read this and take heed, it could well be you one day!' Arabella Weir
'These are absolute GENIUS! Perfectly formed, individually wrapped treats, to be consumed by the fireside, a large sherry in hand, the fingers of long branches scraping across a window. A mixture of Wodehouse, Conan Doyle and fresh Nallon, these spooky tales chill and thrill in equal amounts.' James Dreyfus,
'Just when you thought it was safe, she's back. A shiver will run down your back when you learn of the return of Mrs T in ghostly form. Be afraid. Very afraid.' Iain Dale,
'With a fine grasp of character and idiolect, Steve Nallon conjures up worlds with a great sense of authenticity and an even greater sense of imagination... Steve has an uncanny ability to find fresh and disturbing images - of life and death - in what we think are familiar worlds.' Alistair McGowan
- Winner of For the Hell Of It - best screenwriting, MEI International Film Festival 2024
ISBN: 9781068618963
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 26mm
Weight: unknown
416 pages