Tagged: haunted house

"Third callout in a fortnight, same house, same complaint. He says there's a knock in the pipes." That's my brother-in-law Terry, halfway through his second can, telling this at my sister's kitchen…

When we moved into 14 Corry Vale there was a phone on the landing windowsill. Not a mobile, a proper corded phone, cream-coloured, the kind with the coiled cable gone slack from age. Nobody plugs…

We were wrapping the good plates in newspaper, badly. Sue kept using yesterday's paper, the wet bit from where the milk had leaked, and half the sheets came apart in your hand before you'd got the…