Midnight. Time of the witches, as some say. Others call it the hour of the devil. But here, in the cemetery, midnight is a very special time. This is the time when spirits and ghosts are most powerful, when the veil between our world and the other world practically disappears. Legend has it that while most of the world sleeps, the absence of prayer allows spirits to whisper under the cover of darkness, flying among the tombstones and rustling the leaves of old oak trees. If you find yourself in a cemetery at this hour, then without a second thought you will attribute this rustling to the ordinary wind, and you will consider the carnivorously swirling cemetery fog to be just a play of shadows in the streams of moonlight. But the creaking of the closing cemetery gates behind you will make you believe that the dead have their own stories that they are eager to share with you.

"Dead Man's Tablets" is a collection of 13 stories, piercing to the core, at times dark , at times poetic, but at the same time filled to the brim with sadness and the weight of unfulfilled hopes. Take a deep breath and get ready. It will hurt...