Uncanny short stories - Dark Is The Water & Other Wyrd Tales

Dark Is The Water contains startlingly original tales where the natural world and the human world are deeply intertwined. Through birds, bodies and blurred boundaries these uncanny stories pick at the characters within them, and at the reader. Some are brutal, all are bold, and things are rarely as they seem. A perfectly unsettling collection that filled me with awe and unease in equal measure.
Gaynor Jones, author of Among These Animals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buy the paperback or the ebook.

This is a pocket-sized book of horror.

This is a book for your handbag in the dentist’s waiting room.

This is a book to take on a hike and consume whilst drinking coffee from a flask on the side of a hill.

This is a book to read with friends and compare fiction to real life.

This is a book that would be the perfect gift to slide in the post, as a Get Well Soon treat through an ally’s letterbox.

This is a book that will take you somewhere else when you are sick of doom-scrolling and your attention span is shot.

This is a book. A small but meaty book.

If you like Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, and Julia Armfield, then you'll like this.

If you're not sure what I mean by wyrd, well it's the old way of saying weird, but with more of an uncanny meaning, see here for a better description.

A pocketbook of horror short stories and flash fiction.

A gang of young women are not what they seem. A creature waits on a beach.  A ceremony in a small community turns into a nightmare. The everyday spaces of cricket grounds and train stations become places where inhabitants unravel into themselves. Susan Earlam’s obsession with bodies and their potential for metamorphosis is unveiled in this haunting collection. Dark Is The Water will make you question what it is to live on the edges of this and other worlds.

 A version of this page appeared in late March 2022 on an older version of this website.

 

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