‘Touch Me with Your Cold, Hard Fingers’ by Elizabeth Stott

“Tony had been something of a womaniser, but Maureen has changed him.” Or so she thinks. Yet when Maureen discovers an “extraordinarily realistic mannequin” in Tony’s flat, Maureen begins to wonder if he haschanged; if he really has been transformed by her love. A deliciously uncanny tale, I was gripped to the very (disturbing) end.

First published as a chapbook by Nightjar Press, 2013. Collected in Best British Horror, Salt Publishing, 2014