Night and Day in Misery

Eight years after her husband and son died, Stella returns to Room 17 — the very hotel room where their lives ended — hoping to feel close to them one last time. She checks in for a single quiet night. But as she tries to sleep, urgent, disturbing visions bleed through the walls between the living and the dead, and the other side has a message it is desperate for her to hear.

Part of The Shivers, a collection of short, haunting tales of the uncanny, Night and Day in Misery is Catriona Ward's contribution: a compact, grief-soaked ghost story that keeps the reader guessing at what is real and what is mourning turned monstrous. It sits at the collection's darkest end, wringing dread from memory and the terrible pull of the places where we lost the people we loved.