Poignant, haunting, and deliciously dark. Grab a blanket, hot drink, and maybe some tissues, and settle in for five compelling short stories by gothic suspense author, Jo Buer, including:

VOICES: Everything that dies comes back… someday. While reconnecting with old friends, a mysterious voice and chilling song force a woman to confront her tragic past.

DEWEY DECIMALS: Tick, tick, tick. The red hand tiptoes round the face. Six o’clock. Time to begin. A man with sinister intentions watches a librarian go about her tasks.

RABBIT SKIN: If you can’t see them, they can’t see you… A young girl tries to make sense of her grandmother’s death, and her grandpa’s actions thereafter.

THE WALNUT TREE: Something nags at you. Something snarls and snaps and nips at your insides, making you pause… A teenage girl comes home from school to find that something unsettling has changed in her parents’ demeanours.

RUATAPU RIVER: The river remembers us as we remember it: the canoeing, the swimming, the paddling… It even remembers the drowning. But how much is memory, and how much is imagination? And can intuition really precede death?