Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you’d checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark. Here are tales of suspense and the supernatural that will chill, amuse, and exhilarate…
We’re pleased to reprint Joan Aiken’s short story, “The Cold Flame.” The People in the Castle—available April 12th from Small Beer Press—collects this and 19 other wildly inventive, darkly lyrical stories from Aiken’s impressive career.