Book excerpt: Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman. "'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'" (The Guardian.) "Nightcomers..." The beautiful and the uncanny... A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even after death... A young blacksmith spends Midsummer's Night near an ancient mound, to 'shoe with silver the horses of those who come by'... In an echoing, eerie, out-of-hours mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger... A family gather at a dying girl's bedside and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window... A man walks home, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog... A young actor is offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, '130.' A holiday cottage holds memories of despair... And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story. Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.