Sublimely dark stories from ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up.Join us with authors Claire Fuller, Will Mclean and Ally Wilkes in conversation with editor Dan Coxon to discuss this gloriously chilling collection.Dan Coxon is a finalist for the World Fantasy Awards (Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology) and has won two British Fantasy Awards (Writing the Uncanny and Writing the Future, both co-edited with Richard V. Hirst). He has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards a total of eight times, and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards. In October 2025 his anthology of haunted house stories, Unquiet Guests, will be published by Dead Ink Books. His second short story collection, Come Sing for the Harrowing, will be reissued by CLASH Books in April 2026.Claire Fuller is the author of five novels. Her sixth, Hunger and Thirst will be published in May 2026, and her fourth, Unsettled Ground won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Claire has taught creative writing for Arvon, The Women’s Prize, Buckinghamshire Culture, Curtis Brown Creative and many other organisations. She also writes flash fiction and short stories and has won BBC's Opening Lines short story competition, and the Royal Academy / Pin Drop prize.Originally from the Wirral, Will Maclean has been fascinated by ghost stories since he was a child, and has been writing them almost as long as he can remember. He’s written for television professionally since 2006, during which time he’s worked as a scriptwriter for people as varied as Alexander Armstrong, Miranda Hart, Al Murray and Tracey Ullman. As well as comedy, he’s also written extensively for children’s television, where he’s been an integral part of writing teams that have picked up two BAFTAs and an International Emmy. He lives in London with his wife and young daughter.Ally Wilkes’s debut novel, All the White Spaces, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and her second novel, Where the Dead Wait, was one of Esquire’s best horror books of 2023. Her short fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies from publishers including Nightmare Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Flame Tree Press, Eerie River, and Nepenthe Press. Her next novel, Man Eater – set in the fevered jungles of the Amazon during the late Victorian orchid-hunting craze – will be published in February 2026.
