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Authors: Kate Mosse
Tags: #Anthology, #Short Story, #Ghost
The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales (30 page)
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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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ISBN: 978 1 4091 1209 9
Lines from ‘Dispossessions’, from THE FLASHBOAT: POEMS COLLECTED AND RECLAIMED by Jane Cooper. Copyright © 2000 by Jane Cooper. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Lines from ‘Church Going’ from THE LESS DECEIVED by Philip Larkin. Copyright © 1955 Estate of Philip Larkin. Used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
Lines from ‘The Dry Salvages’, from FOUR QUARTETS by T.S. ELIOT. Copyright © 1941 T.S. Eliot. Used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
A version of ‘Sainte-Thérèse’ was first published in
Woman & Home
magazine (2005); a version of ‘Red Letter Day’ first appeared in an anthology called
Little Black Dress
, edited by Susie Maguire (Polygon, 2006); ‘La Fille de Mélisande’ first appeared in
Midsummer Nights
, edited by Jeanette Winterson (Quercus 2008); a shorter version of ‘The House on the Hill’ first appeared in
Woman & Home
magazine (2009); a version of ‘The Revenant’ first appeared in two instalments in
The Big Issue
(2009); ‘Why the Yew Tree Lives So Long’ was first published in the collection
Why Willows Weep
, edited by Tracy Chevalier (IndieBooks, 2011).
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