The Ghost Tour

Blurb

Every night, Gid Marsh dies on the Shambles.

He is York's most out-of-work actor, and the ghost walk he fronts is the cheesiest in England: dry ice from a hired machine, a hooded Black Abbot who is actually Gid's cousin in a bin bag, and a Victorian child's wail played off a phone. The tourists love it. The ghosts, it turns out, do not.

York is the most haunted city in Europe, and its dead are sick of being misrepresented. After decades of fake spooks and invented history, they start turning up on the tour to set the record straight. Politely at first. Then less so.

Now Gid has a plague victim heckling from the back, a Roman soldier correcting his dates, a very real Abbot who has opinions about the costume, and a rival company circling with a lawyer. Worse, someone has noticed that the footage is genuine. A live Halloween broadcast is booked, the whole city is watching, and the dead have one more thing they want said.

THE GHOST TOUR is a warm, fast and very British horror-comedy about faking it, owning your story, and what the dead might say if anyone ever bothered to listen. Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett, Good Omens and What We Do in the Shadows.