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If you're suffering from the summer swelter, you might like me be slightly guiltily looking forward to the winter. Well, I have good news. Absolute Zero, a new anthology of cold-themed horror fiction is just around the corner, and I have grim little story in there called The Cold Case. The Cold Case is set in Glasgow in 1960 during a period when Scotland was moving away from post-war gloom and starting to embrace modernity. Trolley buses had replaced trams and would all too soon be replaced themselves by the iconic Corporation buses.

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

I was talking with a writer friend in the U.S. the other day, someone I've known for years and whose work I've long admired. They mentioned that they've been...