Hardcover UK, first printing and true first edition. Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. A tale of ghosts and hauntings. "[A]n ambitious contemporary literary achievement, filled with writerly devices ranging from simple recursive in-jokes to sharp metafictional commentary about the storytelling art, not to mention a thoroughly unreliable narrator." Locus - September, 1998. Award History: 1998 Publisher's Weekly Best of 1998 List; 1999 British Fantasy Award Winner; 1998 Stoker Award Winner for Best Novel; 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel.