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Carly Holmes
The Scrapbook is a novel about memory, and the unreliability of memory. It’s about the tangled, often dysfunctional, bonds of family. And it’s about absence and the power that a…
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This anthology brings together the winning entries to the Penfro Festival’s Poetry and Prose competitions, selected by Rhiannon Hooson and Niall Griffiths.
Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are in turn chilling, playful, and melancholy. Every tale is rich with landscapes haunted by loss and longing.
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Crow Face, Doll Face is about being forced to live with the consequences of the decisions we make and the fantasies we construct to soothe ourselves when the life we…
Alex Barr
This collection brings together prize-winning and critically acclaimed stories: encompassing both the poignant realism of bereavement or childhood night terrors, and the fantastical realms of an alternative Garden of Eden.
Christine Harrison
In these stories, antique coats retain the personality and power of previous owners; women fantasise about murdering their ex-husbands over tea and cake; mental breakdown sparks a quest mission that…
A collection of short literary horror stories based on the tradition of the Victorian ‘Penny Dreadful’ alongside high quality illustration and design. A very collectable magazine gaining cult status around…
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Nuth
A story too disturbing to be true, too possible to be ignored, and it should frighten each of us.
The Mediterranean. Sun-bleached ruins, azure seas, foaming wine. But history's cruellest tyrants reigned here, delighting in blood and torture. Myths tell of snake-haired harridans and one-eyed giants, of humans cooked…
