The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts

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Why do people love ghost stories, even when they don’t believe (or say they don’t believe) in ghosts? Is it simply the adrenaline rush that comes from being terrified by a great storyteller? Or is it that such tales give form to our own inner demons?

In The Wrong Turning,  Stephen Johnson evokes the irresistible draw of being frightened, with some of the world’s most chilling – and enigmatic – stories. With contributions from Alexander Pushkin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Tove Jansson, Penelope Lively, Flann O’Brien and more, The Wrong Turning is the perfect read for dark autumnal evenings, to be read by candle light. As Johnson writes, ‘the line between menace and enchantment may be perilously thin, but, on the evidence of these stories, treading it can be as perversely delightful for the writer as for the reader.’

Besides The Wrong Turning, Stephen Johnson is also the author of the bestselling How Shostakovich Changed My Mind, also published by Notting Hill Editions.