Willy Randle is a sensitive young man from a close, loving family. With a place at university and a new girlfriend, he’s happy and confident, his future secure – until a minor accident leaves him with altered perceptions, and his world is shattered. Willy begins to doubt his own senses, convinced that the world and the people around him are not what they seem. Determined to discover the truth about what has happened to him, he sets out on a quest that leads him ever further from the reality he has rejected – and deeper into the nightmarish and labyrinthine secrets of Irongrove Lodge...

Irongrove Lodge draws the broken and disillusioned, the merely curious, the poor and the wealthy alike. Steeped in a terrible and arcane history, it is a house like no other. And here is a man like no other; for a fee he can change his face. He can be you – providing an alibi, manipulating evidence. When he encounters Irongrove Lodge, it causes him not just to question his own identity, but the nature of reality itself...

Tara and Harry Newton have just bought the beautiful Irongrove Lodge, an ideal place to raise their children, Cory and Adrienne. But they are far from the first inhabitants of this house. Bizarre written messages, unnatural infestations and phantoms noises are just the first fruits of the gnawing spiritual hunger that possesses the ancient building; and soon, Tara and Harry will find out that to buy a house and to own it are two very different things...

“All right. Here’s another haunted house story for you. Pay attention. There will be questions later. Maybe even a written exam!” Irongrove Lodge is a house of stories. It draws those with tales to tell, and it shapes it inhabitants through its own constantly evolving story. An extraordinary boy finds an extraordinary place. When he opens a door that shouldn’t be there, he finds himself gripped by a story that must be told. But how to explain what happened? How to tell a story full of impossible things?

Irongrove Lodge gets under your skin, insinuating itself into your thoughts; whispering terrible things, demanding the ultimate sacrifice. Malika and Robin believe that the house will be the fresh start they need, a real fixer-upper with ‘so much potential.’ When they discover a former resident’s old photo album, things began to change. Robin throws himself into renovating the Lodge, little aware that every change he makes is being revisited upon him tenfold. Robin is changing, and for Malika it may already be too late to save him.

One house, five hauntings, five chilling stories. Five Stories High is a collection of five novellas each set in the same house – Irongrove Lodge. This five storey Georgian mansion, once a grand detached property, has now been split into five apartments. This is a building with history, the very bricks and grounds imbued with the pasts of those who have walked these corridors, lived in these rooms. Five extraordinary writers open the doors, revealing ghosts both past and present in a collection that promises to be as intriguing as it is terrifying. Featuring novellas by Sarah Lotz, K.J. Parker, Nina Allan, Robert Shearman and Tade Thompson.