Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a big fight, and they haven't spoken since - until the day before Joe's funeral. What? On the day before his funeral Joe would be dead, wouldn't he? Yes, he would.

Best known for his science fiction, H.G. Wells was also a master of the ghost story, producing numerous tales of the gothic, the eldritch and the uncanny. These six stories, ranging from the humorous to the horrifying, epitomise the very best of Wells? occult fiction. The Moth Two entomologists are embroiled in a scientific feud. When one dies, the other believes he has discovered a rare new species... The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham A medical student...

Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary, in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton, who died at the same table, exactly one year previously.

A lonely ghost with a dust allergy finally finds a friend who isn't scared of her sneezes.

At the end of the nineteenth century, a twelve-year-old girl is disinherited by her cousin and it would seem that her fate is tangled with the intentions the ghost of a dead girl.

Fifteen-year-old Noah discovers malevolent forces afoot when he and his mother travel to a remote Scottish island so that she can write her next children's novel.

A horror story about a ghost that cuts smiles into people's faces with a pair of scissors.

From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the author of 'The Woman in Black'.

It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives - to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast...

When fourteen-year-old Preston is killed by a monstrous entity on his way home from Scouts, he finds himself in a ghostly between-world where he tries to save himself and his new friends from a fate worse than death by changing the past.