Small Animals
Alison Moore ‘Eerie, claustrophobic and disconcerting – a pitcher plant of a story’ Michael Marshall Smith (14pp) SOLD OUT more info |
Puck
David Rose ‘David Rose successfully marries a tone of conversational, and almost chatty, informality to a vocabulary that is dense with allusion and symbolism. The result is a short and mysterious anecdote which somehow manages to imply an entire life’ Mark Cocker (12pp) available more info |
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Marionettes
Claire Massey ‘Claire Massey has the gift of making the ordinary something very sinister, and the extraordinary uncomfortably real. Don’t get too close — this burns like ice’ Robert Shearman (12pp) available more info |
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Into the Penny Arcade
Claire Massey ‘Massey masters the art of quiet disturbance. I like her cool, controlled violence’ Liz Jensen (12pp) available more info |
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Remains
GA Pickin ‘An abandoned church, a haunting tune, a walker alone on the moor after dark... GA Pickin creates a wonderfully evocative and shivery new tale from a few classic ingredients’ Lisa Tuttle (13pp) available more info |
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Sullom Hill
Christopher Kenworthy ‘Sharp, dark and poignant... belying its realist approach, Christopher Kenworthy’s tale of north country childhood resonates with an epic sense of latent magic’ Stephen Gallagher (15pp) available more info |
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Field
Tom Fletcher ‘He builds up tension and dread meticulously, and to wonderfully grim effect. This is where I go for horror these days’ Paul Magrs (12pp) SOLD OUT more info |
Lexicon
Christopher Burns ‘Christopher Burns has wittily reimagined a primitive creature of myth, and turned him into a scholar and a gentleman. His appetites, however, remain as voracious as ever’ Patrick McGrath (17pp) available more info |
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The Beautiful Room
RB Russell ‘RB Russell’s poignant and fantastic story narrates how ordinary househunting can take us into the beautful room of our dreams and nightmares: the room where love is lost and found and lost’ Jennifer Clement (12pp) SOLD OUT more info |
A Revelation of Cormorants
Mark Valentine ‘Lured into a dangerous no-man’s land, the protagonist goes to the edge of his known world and peers over the brink. Tense and beguiling, as odd and mysterious as the cormorant itself’ Stephen Gregory (16pp) SOLD OUT more info |
Black Country
Joel Lane ‘Joel Lane writes about how the past is constructed by the future, how our self-debilitated environment echoes the things we have forgotten about; how this is both an individual and a social process. Uneasy, passionate, never bitter’ M John Harrison (16pp) SOLD OUT more info |
When the Door Closed, It Was Dark
Alison Moore ‘Alison Moore tells a gripping story of sexual power and powerlessness, making audacious use of the economies peculiar to the short story form for her chilling climax’ James Lasdun (16pp) SOLD OUT more info |
The Safe Children
Tom Fletcher ‘Tom Fletcher’s story is a quiet nightmare with a disturbingly brutal heart’ Christopher Burns (16pp) SOLD OUT more info |
What Happens When You Wake Up
in the Night Michael Marshall Smith ‘Michael Marshall Smith is one of the best short fiction writers of his generation’ Ellen Datlow (12pp) SOLD OUT more info |
