Ghosts at the Old Library

Jennie is a trainee teacher eager to make World War I come alive for her new class. She strives to connect with Zehra, a mute refugee. Bonding over a magic eye book, they discover an unexpected shared love for history, but Jennie also learns that the past may not yet be over.

Jo Howard is a writer of children’s and young adult fiction. Her work has been published in Confingo, Funny Pearls and in 100 Voices, an anthology celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage.

Ghosts at the Old Library is produced by Levenshulme Old Library in collaboration with ALLFM with support from Arts Council England.

• Artwork: Kanie Lucchese
• Music and production: Oscilloscope
• Series editor: Richard V. Hirst.
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For more information visit ⁠https://levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk⁠

When a cryptic message from an old acquaintance reignites forgotten connections, Nick finds himself drawn into the life Mark, of a former classmate. But who is Mark? Had he actually been the same school as Nick? And is their shared past truly over?

Nicholas Royle is the author of five collections of short fiction, two works of nonfiction and seven novels, most recently First Novel. 

Ghosts at the Old Library is produced by Levenshulme Old Library in collaboration with ALLFM with support from Arts Council England.

• Artwork: Kanie Lucchese
• Music and production: Oscilloscope
• Series editor: Richard V. Hirst.
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For more information visit https://levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk

Beneath the cadence of her running steps, Helen discovers an eerie harmony on the Fallowfield Loop - an isolated former railway line, now a public footpath. Haunted by the echoes of an historic train accident, she finds herself drawn by a mysterious song she hears on the Loop, a melody that seems all too familiar.

Ghosts at the Old Library is produced by Levenshulme Old Library in collaboration with ALLFM with support from Arts Council England.

• Artwork: Kanie Lucchese
• Music and production: Oscilloscope
• Series editor: Richard V. Hirst.
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For more information visit https://levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk

A young woman navigates the aftermath of her father's death, As she struggles with her grief, mysterious offerings of soil materials in her home, and she finds that living and the departed may now be as separate as she thought.

Lauren O'Donoghue is a writer from South Yorkshire. Her fiction has been published in ergot and Mslexia among others.

Ghosts at the Old Library is produced by Levenshulme Old Library in collaboration with ALLFM with support from Arts Council England.

• Artwork: Kanie Lucchese
• Music and production: Oscilloscope
• Series editor: Richard V. Hirst.
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For more information visit https://levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk

The year is 1778. Rose is celebrating Boxing Day with her parents when her husband returns home. Peter is soaking wet and seems preoccupied, but this isn't the oddest thing about him: Rose's husband has been dead for 20 years. Melissa Wan is the author of This Must Be Earth, published by Nightjar Press. Her other short fiction has been published by a number of independent presses, including by Bluemoose Books, Dead Ink Books and Cōnfingō Publishing.

A retired builder relates his experiences when working on the foundations of a demolished Victorian library building beneath which he discovered a door in the ground. Richard V. Hirst is a writer and editor based in Manchester.

Ange's life is one of routine: marriage, children and a job in her local library. But when it's announced that the neighbouring swimming baths are to be closed down, she finds it provokes a fierce and inexplicable reaction - both in herself and seemingly in the two buildings. Marie Crook is a writer based in Levenshulme. Her work has been published in The Real Story and The Caterpillar magazine.among others, and she has performed at numerous venues including Manchester Central Library.

Ghosts at the Old Library is a series of ghost stories for Christmas commissioned by Levenshulme Old Library, a former Carnegie library building in South Manchester, now the home to a local community arts charity. In 'The Only' a young boy relates the story of how he died in the library and became a ghost - and the terror that awaits him. Adam Farrer is a writer and editor based in Manchester. His first book, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays about the Yorkshire coast, won the 2021 Northbound Book Award.