Alison Littlewood’s most recent novel, published as A. J. Elwood, is The Other Lives of Miss Emily White, a spooky tale of dark academia. Her first book, A Cold Season, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club and described as ‘perfect reading for a dark winter’s night.’ Other titles include Mistletoe, The Hidden People, The Crow Garden and The Unquiet House. Her short stories have been selected for several Best Of anthologies and published in her collection, A Curious Cartography. She has also won the Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction. Alison lives in a house of creaking doors and crooked walls in deepest darkest Yorkshire, England.