Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark
- Author Celia Fremlin
- Narrator Clare Corbett
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Publish Date 10 October 2024
- Run Time 4 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic horror and ghost stories, Ghosts and poltergeists, Horror and supernatural fiction, Mind, body, spirit.
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What to expect
Spine-chillingly creepy Halloween tales of horror from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month,
Uncle Paul: the 'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir' (
Sunday Times) for fans of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith and
Stranger Things.
'Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin.'
Telegraph
'Grips like grim death.'
Spectator
I tried to open my mouth to call out again; but it was not my mouth that opened; it was a great beak, jutting out of my face, cruel and curved like a bird of prey ...
In the high flats, up near the clouds, Hilda and her baby twins reach a fateful end ...
An aunt feels foreboding about her niece's new fiance - but the darkness comes from within ...
A haunted babysitter experiences a little girl's terror of The Hen With The Great Big Eyes ...
One teenage girl's evening home alone is ruined by a mysterious unexpected visitor ...
A little boy's obsession with angels leads to a dramatic metamorphosis ...
Celia Fremlin's classic Gothic story collection is a masterpiece of psychological horror, mining the darkest elements of marriage, childhood, and ageing; probing paranoia, grief and toxic relationships; inviting the ghosts of the past into our present; and exploring the nightmarish secret impulses and supernatural forces lurking beneath suburban Britain.
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