Touched

I read it with great delight. A delicious page-turning treat.

Barbara Trapido

Deeply creepy

Diva

Briscoe builds suspense brilliantly

The Bookbag

A wonderfully claustrophobic horror. It's all wonderfully creepy ... Touched is thoroughly eerie, an enjoyably chilling sliver of ice on a hot summer's day

Observer

a ghost story interwoven with crime, love and horror. It works on every level….Touched is a finely balanced creation, reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Briscoe’s prose is sensuous, poetic, light. The rhythm is delicately controlled. A strange, fascinating tale.

Financial Times

that sense of suffocation and slowly creeping madness is something that Touched - the latest novella from the Hammer horror imprint - expertly mines

Daily Mail

An old fashioned, scary horror story

Sunday Mirror

Haunting novella from Joanna Briscoe…a disorientating ride

Grazia

Touched is a terrific little ghost story …This is an eminently accessible text, bolstered by an exquisitely composed story

Tor.com

Totally wonderful. Touched makes me mindful of Dylan Thomas, it's so poetic and haunting; Joanna Briscoe is a truly lovely writer

Penny Vincenzi

Touched is a gripping novella, a waking nightmare in the home counties that is both erotic and claustrophobic. There's a woozy atmosphere of menace, a satirical stab at Britain's post-war commuter-belt aspirations, and an elegant, postmodern, cine-literate twist…Touched has something of The Turn of the Screw, certainly, but with it, the brasher influence of Ira Levin, or Anthony Shaffer, screenwriter of The Wicker Man. …This is a haunting and disquieting parable

Guardian

a spine-chilling tale of a creepy cottage and a mother’s terror

Daily Express

a ghastly gathering sense of unease never lets up… chilling tale

Woman & Home