Five horror stories for lovers of ghosts, séances and noir
Add Scandi noir, literal ghost stories, opening doors to the unknown and domestic noir to your reading list this Halloween
With just weeks left till Halloween, what those of us who do our best to escape skulls and cobwebs — and the horror that is pumpkin spice latte — love most about the spooky season is a list of new spine-tingling mysteries and ghost stories.
Swedish writer Camilla Sten’s hair-raising 2019 novel The Lost Village was internationally acclaimed. In her latest, The Resting Place, a young woman named Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognise a familiar person’s face. It causes her acute anxiety and makes her question everything. When she walked in on the scene of her cruel grandmother’s murder, she saw the person who cut her throat escaping, but she is a useless witness and is left questioning her perception of reality...
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