Macqueen Adam

''A brilliantly eclectic mix of dark, unsettling tales'' Joanne Burn, author of The Bone Hunters''Guaranteed to give you goosebumps'' Best Magazine''Atmospheric collection of spooky stories'' Observer''A lovely present'' The Spectator''Inspired by all the great ghost story writers'' BBC Open Book Editor''s Pick''Tis the season to be hauntingAn unexpected and unwelcome voice on the world’s first radio broadcast in 1908. A son who won’t stop messaging his family on Facebook, although he’s been dead for quite some time now. A frozen forest in a far north land where the sinister elf-kin lurk in the snow.A Scottish island where the locals make very sure their old folk don’t go hungry through the long winter.Over the past two decades Adam Macqueen has sent a Haunted Tale to his family in place of a Christmas card. A collection in the grand tradition of ghost stories – to be read by the fire in the depths of winter – it proves that terror lurks in many places, and the dead take on infinite guises . . .READER REVIEWS''Spine-chilling''''Dark and twisty''''Pleasing terrors indeed''‘An awesome collection … I loved how each story had its unique twist’ ‘An amazingly spooky collection … Excellent’‘What a wonderfully weird and unsettling collection of short stories this is!’‘Fabulous … I can''t recommend this book enough’

In the age of AIDS and Section 28: a secret that could change political historyIt is 1987, and Tommy Wildeblood has put his days as a Piccadilly Circus rent boy long behind him. Slightly to his own surprise, he is now a rookie teacher at a South London comprehensive.But when Margaret Thatcher? s government launches a chilling attack on the ? promotion? of homosexuality in a new law known as Section 28, Tommy can? t stay silent ? especially when he realises he may have information about one of Thatcher? s key lieutenants that could change the political situation completely.Forming an uneasy alliance with a sharp-elbowed tabloid journalist, and delving deep into his past on the ? Dilly? , he puts everything on the line ? both for himself and his old friends ? in a desperate bid to expose the truth.With his trademark blend of historical research and ? what if? fiction, Adam Macqueen captures the spirit of a frightening age in another spellbinding case that lifts the lid on the Eighties political establishment? s murkiest secrets.