Sophie Parkes at Ghosts at the Old Library

Ghosts at the Old Library is back!

This Christmas, Levenshulme Old Library has commissioned new ghost stories from six writers for a series of very special atmospheric winter events.

Ghost stories at Christmas have long been an oral storytelling tradition, from tales told around the winter fire through to Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. This moved into the TV era with A Ghost Story for Christmas, a series of late night television movies broadcast on the BBC which continue to this day.

This Christmas, we have commissioned six brand new ghost stories from some of the North West’s finest authors.

This is the third year of Ghosts at the Old Library. The first year we ran the project we commissioned ghost stories inspired by our building; the following year we selected a number of local landmarks for writers to respond to. This year, we have taken ‘households’ as our starting…