Ten very different stories linked by the focus on the supernatural and the measured, unsensational quality of the writing. All have a nicely physical grounding in the geography of Manchester and the best of them then take off into more fantastic places: the Angel of Death as a leather-clad attractive young man, the cat which, becomes a baby, the Dracula mask which takes over Imran, the wonderful green candle which allows everyone in the old-people's home to remember a special moment. These gently unsettle and suggest other possibilities, frequently dominated by a warmth for people and their lives.