Free: Agnes of Grimstone Peverell

A wry-humoured ghost story for Christmas, in which a snobbish English theatre critic and his wife find themselves enjoying the Victorian Christmas market in the little-known Dorset town of Grimstone Peverell. Chilled to the marrow, they retire to the town’s minster where they are accosted by a pious and enthusiastic guide, who knows a great deal about some things, yet next to nothing about that which would, to most people, seem obvious; she seems determined not to let them go, but return to London they must – Lionel has a play to review. Free on Kindle.