If you’re looking for spooky stories on a dark night, then ‘Phantoms at the Phil’ is where you need to be.

After a brief hiatus, ‘Phantoms’ is back at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle with three new stories of a supernatural disposition. Putting the willies up you this year will be Gail-Nina Anderson (cultural historian, lecturer, journalist and short story writer), Sean O’Brien (Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, his twelfth collection of poems is published this January) and David Almond OBE (the esteemed author of Skellig, Counting Stars, The Falling Boys, Puppet, The Tightrope Walkers, A Song for Ella Grey and many more novels, short stories, picture books, and radio programmes besides). If you’re looking for some eerie disquiet this January, then the ghost-friendly chambers of the Lit & Phil beckon…

Phantoms at the Phil, Thursday 8 January, Lit & Phil, Newcastle, 7pm-9pm, £5/£3, litandphil.org.uk