Alison Littlewood

Alison Littlewood is the author of A Cold Season, which was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club, where it was described as “perfect reading for a dark winter’s night”. Her second novel, Path of Needles – a dark blend of fairy tales and crime fiction – was recently short-listed for a British Fantasy Award. Her third, The Unquiet House, is a ghost story set in the Yorkshire countryside. Alison’s short stories have been picked for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror and The Best Horror of the Year anthologies, as well as The Best British Fantasy 2013 and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10. Other publication credits include the anthologies Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame, Resurrection Engines, Terror Tales of the Cotswolds, Where Are We Going? and Never Again. Alison recently won the Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction for her story ‘The Dog’s Home,’ published in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories.