Full of creepy moments, with a great atmosphere, Dead of Winter is a perfect gothic horror for younger, mature readers (around 12-15 years old). It moves along at a great pace that will have your heart beating faster and faster.

Elisa. Book grocer

'A superb little ghost story ... it's quite chilling, and has the capacity to give children a pleasingly good scare. It would make a great book for reading aloud over a series of nights' SFX 'Open a Chris Priestley Gothic ghost story and what seeps from the pages, like mist from a desolate marsh, is his sheer love of the genre. This passion not only shapes a gripping story with well-rounded characters, but lifts the level of writing well above similar Victorian chillers ... Deliciously creepy with lots of twists and turns to keep young readers on edge' Daily Mail 'In The Dead of Winter, Chris Priestley takes his Gothic ghost stories into a full length novel. Gorgeously shivery right up to the very last page, it won't disappoint fans of his Tales of Terror series' Thebookbag.co.uk 'Priestley assembles his plot and possibly psychotic characters with wicked glee, creating a supernatural tale which is aware that revenge is always open-ended. Genuinely frightening, this will make your ghoulish nephews stay up all night' Literary Review