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Alison Hart, a professional medium working the dead-end towns around London's orbital motorway, hires a brittle assistant named Colette, while the spirit guides of her childhood refuse to leave her alone.
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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
In 2016, Finn, a suspended history teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York hospice, ends up on a strange road trip through the South with his ex-girlfriend Lily, who has recently died.
The Haunting of Velkwood
Talitha Velkwood was one of three girls who got out when an anomaly swallowed her suburban street in the 1980s, leaving everyone else there as ghosts. Decades later a researcher persuades her to go back in.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
A war photographer wakes up dead in Colombo and has seven days to solve his own murder while navigating the Sri Lankan afterlife.
Enlightenment
In an Essex town in 1997, Thomas Hart, a closeted journalist, and Grace Macaulay, the teenage daughter of a strict chapel family, share a love of astronomy as the Hale-Bopp comet crosses the sky, and over the years their friendship is tested by love, faith and a local ghost story.
The September House
Margaret loves the big Victorian house she and her husband Hal bought, even though every September the walls bleed and the ghosts turn violent, so when Hal disappears and their grown daughter comes looking for him, Margaret has to keep the house's rules and her own secrets.
Here Goes Nothing
A murdered man watches from a chaotic afterlife as his killer moves in with his pregnant widow, while a pandemic sweeps the world he left behind.
Damned
Madison Spencer, the thirteen-year-old daughter of film stars, wakes up in Hell, which turns out to be run like a corrupt, bureaucratic high school, and sets out to make the best of it.
The Séance
A young woman who once staged seances to console her grieving mother inherits Wraxford Hall, a decaying Suffolk mansion where a family vanished years before, along with a bundle of papers about what happened there.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
The Sea, the Sea
Charles Arrowby, a celebrated theatre director, retires to a house on the rocks by the sea to write his memoirs, and there meets Hartley, the girl he loved as a boy, now an unremarkable married woman in the village.
Darkmans
In Ashford, Kent, a hospital laundry manager, his drug-dealing son and the people around them find that something from the fifteenth century, perhaps a royal court jester, is working its way into the present.
Frankenstein in Baghdad
A Baghdad junk dealer stitches together body parts that come alive as a creature seeking justice.