The stories in this collection all deal with psychological aspects of love - love given and withheld, love craved and lost, and love met and disappointed.

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. In the title story, on a murky evening in a warmly lit club off St James, a bishop listens closely as a paranormal detective recounts his most memorable case, one whose horrifying denouement took place in that very building....

This selection includes five tales of very different kinds written in the 1850s & 'Cousin Phillis'. Immensely readable & sophisticated works of art, they show Gaskell's mastery of the genre.