Synopsis: A down-on-his-luck magician plays for an audience who want to involve him in a most unpleasant Christmas tradition. A stranded traveller waits for the next train whilst out in the storm something waits for him. An angry and lonely old man faces up to the increasingly vivid ghosts of a past he has tried to bury. Two lovers explore the collapse of their relationship on a holiday in witch-haunted countryside. A hopeless jobseeker finds himself in a rural art gallery whose walls hold the last things he might ever see. A motorist heading home seeks help at an isolated farmhouse and makes the mistake of venturing into the nearby maze. A seaside town bears witness to the end of the world, or the start of a new one. A heartbroken young man becomes obsessed with seeing the face of a forgotten missing girl. The first original collection of short fiction in almost a decade from the award-winning author of some of the most unsettling contemporary horror, 'They Come At Dusk' shows us glimpses of things we might never forget.