Dark Is The Water

"Through birds, bodies and blurred boundaries these uncanny stories pick at the characters within them, and at the reader."

Gaynor Jones, author of Among These Animals

 

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 & Other Wyrd Tales, will make you question what it is to live on the edges of this and other worlds.  

 

"Susan Earlam's wholesome is hostile; her masterfully minimal prose an irresistible cocktail of magic, menace, and the macabre. Each night, you'll find yourself returning to pull it over your head, knowing all too well that there are fouler things lurking than the fuzzy comfort within.
This collection is birth-sac beautiful - gushing with warm, sticky, seductively grotesque storytelling. Like any great horror anthology, each squirming lump in this litter is irresistible, but bites without warning."

Ben Tallon, author and artist