A Ghostly Little Book: Five Frightening Tales from Five Essential Writers

Olga Ravn · Roddy Doyle · Eliza Clark · Tom Crewe · Helen Oyeyemi

Oct 2026 · Penguin

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A Ghostly Little Book brings you five brand new spooky stories from five of the best writers on the planet

From Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Dickens, from Shirley Jackson to Toni Morrison, the greatest writers have always been drawn to that ancient, mysterious thing: the haunting.

A Ghostly Little Book is a slim, beautiful testament to the enduring appeal of the spook, a landmark collection of specially composed modern ghost stories from Roddy Doyle, Olga Ravn, Eliza Clark, Tom Crewe and Helen Oyeyemi, five of the most acclaimed and exciting authors at work today.

With surprising scares and anguished apparitions, with chance encounters, spectral phones and vengeful spirits, these tales chart the many twists and turns the ghost story might take: strange, unsettling, heartwarming, hilarious and, of course, blood-chilling.

A Ghostly Little Book brings you five brand new spooky stories from five of the best writers on the planet From Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Dickens, from Shirley Jackson to Toni Morrison, the greatest writers have always been drawn to that ancient, mysterious thing: the haunting. A Ghostly Little ...

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