Publisher's Synopsis
For those who like ghost stories in the wintertime; in this collection are tales of the strange and supernatural, evoking folk-memories of hauntings and natural magic; interspersed between the stories are poems that tell of winter chill and the wildlife of a white frostbitten world. An RAF pilot, becomes snowbound on the Derbyshire moors and almost dies..... But what has the prehistoric barrow to do with his rescue?An odd little sailor makes a long journey that ends in the crypt of a village church and he never realises how much terror he causes.A Land girl knows her brother has died in his battleship. But no one else knows anything about the sinking of the ship. Until one Christmas Day ....A war-fatigued journalist visits his old friend, now a vicar in the Cotswolds, and gets to know a former vicar who had lived there.....three hundred years before.Returning after a long ignominious absence to attend his father's funeral, a man is ignored by all but his former girlfriend. Just some of the stories in this seasonal collection. And the poems such as Covenant of Wolf and Prey chill the heart and mind. Winter is more than fireside comfort. It is the season of darkness, stark trees and the primeval desire for return of the light. Within the jollity there is a darker pagan element. Yet reading these stories and poems makes the mulled wine and the burning logs more warming, more welcome.