In Urban Creatures, Sarah Gray’s short stories shift from the unsettling to the surreal to the frightening, all cut through with her characteristic black humour. Urban survival makes creatures of us all.

Urban Creatures skirts the edge of reality, dexterously defying form and genre. Primal urges feed on the city, stalking its inhabitants. From a psychotherapist gorging on tragedy, to a predatory hair thief, and a grief-stricken father’s search for his lost daughter, humanity’s subterranean secrets and shames are unearthed.Urban survival makes creatures of us all. Sarah Gray’s short stories shift from the unsettling to the surreal to the frightening, all cut through with her characteristic black humour.

‘Sarah writes beautifully and he sense of foreboding and unease is brilliantly conveyed. It echoes Mary Shelly or Edgar Allen Poe.’ - Clare Balding, award-winning broadcaster, journalist. and author

‘Brilliant on so many levels. It can’t fail to engage you!’ - Helena Frith Powell, international bestselling author