Selfie-sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real. John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the gahstly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life. Very modern ghost stories from the author of 'The Wall'.