{"product_id":"the-good-unknown-and-other-ghost-stories-paperback","title":"The Good Unknown: And Other Ghost Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Volk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 286\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52555821646131,"sku":"9798869680730","price":33.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UFcSsNqV-G9798869680730.webp?v=1761141217","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-good-unknown-and-other-ghost-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}