The Witching Hour – Michelle Paver, Bridget Collins and Jess Kidd

As darkness falls, step inside Maidstone's own haunted museum for a spine-tingling evening celebrating the genre of the ghost story with three masters of supernatural fiction.

Michelle Paver, Bridget Collins and Jess Kidd – three bestselling authors and contributors to a chilling collection of supernatural tales in ‘The Witching Hour’ – join Gianna Pollero to explore why ghost stories continue to haunt our imaginations. Expect eerie inspiration, fascinating conversation and perhaps even a few unexpected chills in this year’s final festival event.

MICHELLE PAVER was born in central Africa but came to England as a child. After gaining a degree in Biochemistry at Oxford University, she was a partner at a City law firm, until she gave that up to write full time. She is the author of the bestselling, award-winning series that began with Wolf Brother. The series has sold over 3 million copies in 36 territories, with acclaimed audio editions read by Ian McKellen.

BRIDGET COLLINS is the international bestselling author of The Binding and The Betrayals. She is also the author of seven acclaimed books for young adults and has had two plays produced, one at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Bridget trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art after reading English at King’s College, Cambridge. She lives in Kent, United Kingdom.

JESS KIDD was brought up in London as part of a large family from County Mayo. She is the author of four novels. She has been nominated for many awards including the CWA New Blood Dagger, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Her books have been chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and the BBC Between the Covers Book Club.