It’s publication day for Best British Short Stories 2025, which includes my story ‘Ghost Walks’! Available from all good bookshops, or from the publisher Salt Books.
Here’s what the Manchester Review had to say about my story:
“Another unusually surprising story was Ian Critchley’s ‘Ghost Walks’, telling the story of a woman having a moment of Déjà vu as she revisits York, where she once spent her student days and met her future husband. What, at surface level, can be read as a deceptively simple ghost story turns into a complex exploration of identity, marriage and retrospection on the lives we thought we would live in the halcyon days of youth.”
Ian Critchley 