Grandmother Wolf and other stories

<p>Frances Oliver's new collection of ghostly and sinister tales has its share of phantoms and vampires - but never in their traditional character or guise.</p><p><br></p><p>A disabled demented centagenarian longs to escape from her care home - but in the form of a creature she has not seen since her childhood long ago ...</p><p><br></p><p>A nervous sickly little boy sent to his uncle's country home to recuperate wanders into the nearby forest and meets a group of friendly welcoming children who always play the same ancient but exciting game ...</p><p><br></p><p>In the shrunken impoverished post-climate-change world still run by despotic corporations a secretary wonders why her glamorous boss has asked her of all his staff to accom- pany him for a conference on a remote private island ...</p>