haunting

A haunting mystery: Enlightenment, by Sarah Perry, reviewed

25 May 2024 9:00 am

The story of the disappearance from an Essex manor house of a Romanian astronomer named Maria Vaduva starts to obsess a local journalist a century later

Sarah Vine, Prue Leith and Jilly Cooper on their most convincing ghost story

16 December 2017 9:00 am

  Anthony Horowitz  Novelist   I have never really believed in ghosts, but I actually had a personal experience which…

Stage fright

2 September 2017 9:00 am

Patrick McGrath is a master of novels about post-traumatic fragmentation and dissolution, set amid gothic gloom. His childhood years spent…

The cold grip of fear

22 July 2017 9:00 am

A screenwriter sits in a lovely rented house somewhere up an Alp in early December. The air is clear, the…