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A Ghostly Little Book
  • Published: 1 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405988490
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

A Ghostly Little Book

Five Frightening Tales from Five Essential Writers

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Hardback
6 Oct 2026
EBook
1 Oct 2026
Audiobook
1 Oct 2026
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A landmark collection of newly written ghost stories from five of the world's greatest writers

From Edgar Allan Poe to Charles Dickens, from Shirley Jackson to Toni Morrison, the greatest writers have always been drawn to that ancient, mysterious thing: the haunting.

A Ghostly Little Book is a slim, beautiful testament to the enduring appeal of the spook, a landmark collection of specially composed modern ghost stories from Roddy Doyle, Olga Ravn, Eliza Clark, Tom Crewe and Helen Oyeyemi, five of the most acclaimed and exciting authors at work today.

With surprising scares and anguished apparitions, with chance encounters, spectral phones and vengeful spirits, these tales chart the many twists and turns the ghost story might take: strange, unsettling, heartwarming, hilarious and, of course, blood-chilling.
  • Published: 1 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405988490
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144

About the authors

Eliza Clark

Eliza Clark is the author of novels Boy Parts and Penance and the short story collection She’s Always Hungry. Boy Parts was named Blackwell’s Fiction book of the year and was adapted for the stage in 2023. She was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Futures 10 award and listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Europe.
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Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn is one of Denmark’s most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021, the Ursula K.Le Guin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Awards and the Dublin Literary Award. Her novel My Work won the Politikens Literature Prize in 2021 and led to changes in the country’s maternity rights. She has also written shorter pieces for the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Granta.
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Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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Tom Crewe

TOM CREWE was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life is his first novel. Crewe says: 'This is the book I knew I wanted to write long before I actually wrote it. I hope it reveals to readers an unfamiliar Victorian England that will surprise and provoke, inhabited by a generation in the process of discovering the nature and limits of personal freedom, struggling to create a better world as the twentieth century comes into view.'
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