The Inn Closes for Christmas

Cledwyn Hughes is Aickmanesque in his ability to unnerve and unsettle, and is at once both uncanny and droll, The Inn Closes for Christmas is a dark and bizarre tale of obsession and its consequences – Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM
I absolutely loved The Inn Closes for Christmas. Cledwyn Hughes is a master at taking the ordinary and seemingly mundane and transform it into something terrifying. I was gripped the whole way through and devoured it all in one sitting! The Inn Closes for Christmas is perfect for fans of Celia Dale, Celia Fremlin, and Shirely Jackson – Jessie Elland, author of THE LADIE UPSTAIRS

Cledwyn Hughes was an Anglo-Welsh author of short stories, novels, and narrative non-fiction. He wrote for more than 30 years across a wide range of genres including crime, ‘Celtic Noir’, children’s and topographical writing.

Born in Llansantffraid, Montgomeryshire, he worked as a hospital pharmacist in the north of England before settling down in Wales to write full-time. His work has been featured in magazines such as Suspense, as well as in collections like Woodrow Wyatt’s English Stories. He was also a regular contributor to the BBC.

He is best known for the novel The Civil Strangers (1950) and the macabre novella The Inn Closes for Christmas(1947), which remained in print until shortly before his untimely death. His contemporaries called him a ‘brilliant young Welshman whose short stories have already established his reputation’ (The Spectator).

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