Inspired by our native landscapes, saturated by the shadows beneath trees & behind doors, listening to the run of water & half-heard voices, Tom Cox s first collection of short stories is a series of evocative & unsettling trips into worlds previously visited by the likes of M. R. James & E. F. Benson. Railway tunnels, the lanes & hills of the Peak District, family homes, old stones, shreds fluttering on barbed wire, night drawing in, something that might be an animal shifting on the other side of a hedge: Tom has drawn on his life-long love of weird fiction, folklore & nature s unregarded corners to write a collection of stories that will delight fans old & new, & leave them very uneasy about turning the reading lamp off.