Sometimes our nighttime imaginings merely hint at the real horrors…

An expert at chilling the spine and curdling the blood, Edith Nesbit relates three of her best Gothic tales while recalling her own childhood terrors. In The Shadow, a repressed housekeeper encounters an abominable entity, while in The Pavilion the shade of a long-dead necromancer envelops a social gathering. Finally, a deranged young woman harbours a deadly secret in a rediscovered story called A Strange Experience.

Directed by renowned horror expert Jonathan Rigby, this gripping insight into the darker side of Edith Nesbit, author of The Railway Children, won Claire Louise Amias the 2025 Hamilton Deane Award.