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Hi, I’m Ali!

I love to write stories with a little bit of magic at their heart and often more than a little of the strange. My novels include A COLD SEASON, PATH OF NEEDLES, THE HIDDEN PEOPLE, THE CROW GARDEN and MISTLETOE.

“Hugely enjoyable – perfect reading for a dark winter’s night” – The Richard and Judy Book Club, of A Cold Season

I also write as A. J. Elwood

Latest title: THE OTHER LIVES OF MISS EMILY WHITE.

“A. J. Elwood has carved a solid reputation with her spooky and hauntingly beautiful historical fiction. This novel is no exception, and its brilliance surely cements her place as one of the finest British writers working today in any genre” – Tim Lebbon, author of The Silence

• The Wayfarer’s Weird
  Here’s a first look at The Wayfarer’s Weird: Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles.
  
  Edited by Weird Walk, this anthology is a journey into the ghostly and bizarre, striking out from the shelter of the inn for the places where the path begins to fade. It takes in the sublime wilderness of mountains, coasts and ravines, as well as forbidden, ancient tracts of woodland. 
  
  It features classics from John Buchan and Algernon Blackwood alongside modern, thrilling (and sometimes violent) warnings to the intrepid.
  
  I’m very proud that my story, On Ilkley Moor, is included among these luminaries of dark fiction! With thanks to Paul Finch, who first published it in Terror Tales of Yorkshire.
  
  The anthology is being published this August by British Library Publishing and is now available for preorder.