A scary read that will chill you to the bone ... Beware if fact and fiction suddenly start to blur crimesquad.com on A Cold Season Littlewood's first novel is an assured and finely-crafted piece of work, probably the best horror debut since Joe Hill's 2007 novel, Heart-Shaped Box Reader Dad on A Cold Season A Cold Season is an intelligent, sensitive book. Its chills are delivered with precision certainly, but in subtle yet equally terrifying manner it's the parts that aren't scary which speak as loudly as the parts that freak you out Spooky Reads on A Cold Season Alison has been churning out intriguing and clever chilling stories that always manage to raise my heartbreak Upcoming4.me on Alison Littlewood The quality of the writing makes the introductory passages soar, with landscapes populated by flora and the villagers' closed community depicted with all its questionable traditions ... I found the book a particular joy to read Gary Fry Powerful and Chilling ... so many sinister undercurrents, locals steeped in superstition and full of secrets and tales of fairies stealing the most attractive babies and substituting their sickly own ... I was engrossed all the way through D. L. Rees - Amazon Vine Reminded me of both The Woman in Black and The Wicker Man, but it has a magic all of its own Littlepig - Amazon Vine This is a masterclass in terror fiction and will leave no reader unshaken. Read and beware... David Spanswick - Amazon Vine Suitably strange with a twist Kirkus Reviews One of those books that you will probably read over the course of a single night and wonder in the morning where the time has gone ... The Hidden People is an intriguing piece of work that takes its cue from complex mythology and superstition to weave a timeless story that equally delights and disturbs. Upcoming4.me There's an amazing sense of place and time in this novel, as Littlewood perfectly captures the literary style, attitudes, and class consciousness of Victorian England Publishers Weekly

Alison Littlewood is the author of A Cold Season, published by Jo Fletcher Books. The novel was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, where it was described as "perfect reading for a dark winter's night." Her sequel, A Cold Silence, has recently been published. Alison's short stories have been picked for Best British Horror 2015, The Best Horror of the Year and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror anthologies, as well as The Best British Fantasy 2013 and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10. She also won the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction with her story The Dog's Home, published in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories. Alison lives with her partner Fergus in Yorkshire, England, in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls. You can talk to her on twitter @Ali__L, see her on Facebook and visit her at www.alisonlittlewood.co.uk.