Ghosts of Christmas Past: A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories

About Bernard CapesE. F. BensonE. NesbitFrank CowperL. P. HartleyLouis de BernieresM. R. JamesMuriel SparkNeil GaimanRobert Aickman

L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) was a British writer described by Lord David Cecil as 'One of the most distinguished of modern novelists; and one of the most original'. His best-known work is The Go-Between which was made into a 1970 film. Other works include The Betrayal The Brickfield The Boat My Fellow Devils A Perfect Woman and Eustace and Hilda for which he was awarded the 1947 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was awarded the CBE in 1956. Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel A Kind of Intimacy was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 her second Cold Light was published by Sceptre and she was chosen by BBC's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. Her most recent novels The Friday Gospels and Fell were published to resounding critical acclaim. She has also written a memoir Notes Made While Falling. She lives in Lancaster with her husband son and daughter.