In the dead of winter, the veil between worlds is as thin as ice
Featuring authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Ruth
Rendell, E. F. Benson, W.W. Jacobs and more, selected by Cecily
Gayford.
Cecily Gayford studied English at the University of Oxford, where
she immersed herself obsessively in the gothic, morbid and
mysterious side of literature. Now a Publishing Director, she has
worked at Profile Books for eleven years. A life-long scaredy-cat,
she once saw a ghost in a hotel room.
'With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground' - Daily
Mail
'Looking forward to Christmas? [The Vintage Murder series] is a
fine way to start it. It's a cracker' - Amy Myers
'Praise for Vintage Murder series' - :
'Has everything you might want ... take this little book to the
beach [and] relax in the sun while reading of battered corpses' -
Craig Brown
'An excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writers'
- Marcel Berlins
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