Out of Water is the first story in the queer horror collection Shapes in the Dark by William Jackson and a particular favourite of our publisher's: 'Drown in this skilful evocation of the sea, of slim-hipped youth, of desire, life and death.'

Matt has rented a beach house for the summer on a remote and unpopulated coastline. He walks and swims and relishes his own aloneness. Then one day everything changes: what he took to be a seal turns out to be a strange and beautiful castaway with no name.

Out of Water is the third book in the Publisher's Choice series, a collection of slim volumes selected by our publisher at the Cambridge Queer Press.