Description

A ghost has no substance, but it has power – and presence – and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.

The genre-bending and dazzling new collection of ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestselling Jeanette Winterson

‘Winterson the artist at her most potent’ GUARDIAN

‘Thought-provoking’ DAILY MIRROR

‘Spine-chillingly good’ I

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They’ve simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.

To live amongst us.

To remind us.

To tempt us.

To take their revenge.

These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead – of those we’ve lost, loved, forgotten… and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

Publisher Review

I loved Night Side of the River. Jeanette Winterson is one of the wittiest writers around today... I can't think of any other writer who can treat death and horror with such lightheartedness and pragmatic cheerfulness but without losing the cold-yet-cosy frisson that comes with all the best ghost stories. MR James would be very happy! -- Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language * Evening Standard * Winterson is always passionate and provocative * New Statesman * A fascinating and engrossing look at AI, science, gender fluidity and, ultimately, what it really means to be human -- Nicola Sturgeon Packed with charm and beautifully illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let you escape the less salubrious aspects of Christmas for a literary wonderland * Stylist, praise for CHRISTMAS DAYS * Thought provoking and necessary * Guardian, praise for 12 BYTES *