Winter Spirits

Winter Spirits is a ghost story, set in a Victorian mansion. It follows the course of one of the tenants, whose job it is to collect the rent in the landlord's absence. On his rounds, he gets to know everyone in the house, including the mysterious woman on the first floor. She sets off a chain of events that makes him reconsider everything and challenge the safety of his sceptical mind. Winter Spirits is a novella of approximately 27,000 words and has nine chapters. 'At the bottom of the stairs, I instantly felt so distant from the normal, rational world, as though I was in a foreign land that had suddenly become hostile. A feeling of isolation crept over me and with it the subtle mist of a presence that was looking in on me, detecting and assessing me. With this in my mind, I walked on tiptoe so as not to disturb whatever might be there, as though the quietness of my movements would give me an advantage. I felt like an ancient hunter living on his instincts, but in that no man's land I did not know how obvious or stealthy I was being. I felt I was in uncharted territory and would wake a sleeping phantom'