num_pages: 241
description: As night draws through country lanes and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across hills and hedgerows shadows appear where figures are not; things do not remain in their places; a new home is punctured by abandoned objects; a watering hole conceals depths greater than its swimmers can fathom.Riddled with talismans and portents saturated by shadows beneath trees and whispers behind doors these ten stories broaden the scope of folk tales as we know them. Inspired by our native landscapes and traversing boundaries of the past and future this collection is Tom Cox's first foray into fiction. Funny strange and poignant it elicits the unexpected and unseen to raise our hackles and set imaginations whirring.Inspired by our native landscapes saturated by the shadows beneath trees and behind doors listening to the run of water and half-heard voices Tom Cox's first collection of short stories is a series of evocative and unsettling trips into worlds previously visited by the likes of M.R. James and E.F. Benson.Railway tunnels the lanes and 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 and nature's unregarded corners to write a collection of stories that will delight fans old and new and leave them very uneasy about turning the reading lamp off.
language: English
title: Help the Witch
publisher: Unbound