Rachel Harrison's The Return

Exactly two years after she disappeared, Julie mysteriously comes back, with no memory of where she's been. To celebrate her return, Julie's friends get together for a girls' weekend away at a remote hotel. Things, however, are not all wonderful–Julie doesn't seem like herself at all. Something else, something more sinister and dangerous, is hiding beneath the surface, and it all comes out over the course of the trip. Recommended in this episode: Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill and Patrick Stewart's autobiography Making It So UP NEXT: Ada Buisson's "The Ghost's Summons" in The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume One Buy Toil and Trouble here!