For the discerning reader of horror fiction, who appreciates a chilling tale above blood and gore, here are five very British horror stories to make the blood run cold. Around the villages, towns and cities of Britain, some very disturbing things are happening. Disfigurements made with love, families full of cruelty, murderous call centre workers, haunted mansions and strange happenings in the woods. You will never see Britain in the same way again. This collection includes a fascinating author's note on the story 'Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?' which is based on a real life gruesome murder...

When the past comes back to haunt us... literally "Before Owen, my hours were filled with music, sex and food." So says Alice, who lives a self-indulgent life with her lover, Liam, in Shakespeare's old town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Then without warning a boy turns up on their doorstep and announces that he is Liam's son, Owen. Alice struggles with this intrusion into their life and home, finding Owen a difficult and creepy child. Soon terrible long-forgotten memories of her own childhood start to stir. When Alice starts seeing her long dead mother, she learns that nothing is what it seems,...