The only author to have been awarded the CWA Historical dagger three times, this is his collection of three gothic novellas: }Broken Voices, The Leper House{ and }The Scratch{ It's Christmas before the Great War and two lonely schoolboys have been left in the care of an elderly teacher. There is little to do but listen to his eerie tales about the nearby Cathedral. The boys concoct a plan to discover if the stories are true. But curiosity can prove fatal.