{"product_id":"the-good-unknown-and-other-ghost-stories-9798869680730","title":"The Good Unknown: And Other Ghost Stories","description":"In this new collection of eleven stories, Stephen Volk explores the wide span of possibilities of the ghost story in its various manifestations-from hauntings set in the quotidian modern world, to ones that hark back to traditional, but no less chilling, tales of the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen battle-scarred army veterans are recruited for an archaeological dig in Wiltshire, more than bones are unearthed, in 'Unrecovered'. A pleasure park becomes anything but pleasurable in 'Three Fingers, One Thumb'. In '31\/10' a notorious, fateful BBC TV studio is revisited, while in 'The Waiting Room' a supernatural encounter makes Charles Dickens himself come to question both his creative inspiration and his fundamental beliefs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree brand new stories are included here: 'The Crossing', 'Baby on Board', and 'Lost Loved Ones'-the latter novella being a sequel to Volk's television series Afterlife and a welcome return for him to the much-loved character of Alison Mundy, the troubled psychic medium, in a world post-Covid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs with the rest of the book, these have the author's trademark mixture of 'horror and heartbreak' (Nathan Ballingrud); qualities that have earned him praise as 'one of our genre's foremost practitioners in the short form' (Peter Tennant, \u003ci\u003eBlack\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStatic\u003c\/i\u003e) and 'one of the most provocative and unsettling of contemporary writers' (Andy Hedgecock, \u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Volk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798869680730\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940896702579,"sku":"9.79887E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_820ecda2-2ed8-4e40-b14b-92b6698ad0ff.jpg?v=1758979639","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-good-unknown-and-other-ghost-stories-9798869680730","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}