First published 2013
This horror anthology brings together twenty writers who craft tales spanning time and space. Small children face terrors beyond their understanding while old-time cockney gangsters navigate violence in London's underworld. Aimless stoners encounter forces that shatter their hazy reality. The collection moves readers through a house that sits on the darkest street, down into hospital basements where fluorescent lights flicker over unspeakable things, and onto first-class flights where luxury cannot protect passengers from what waits in the cabin. Among these varied nightmares walks Mr Stix, a figure whose presence connects the stories in ways that become clear only as darkness deepens. The writers include Jeremy C. Shipp, Jasper Bark, Scott Nicholson, and seventeen others who understand that true horror lives in the spaces between our world and whatever lies beyond it. Each story captures a different facet of fear, from the innocent terror of childhood to the sophisticated dread of adults who thought they understood the rules.
Genres: short-stories, horror, dark-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: interconnected-stories, unsettling-presence
Setting: London, Hospital
Period: Contemporary
428 pages · Kindle Edition · Crystal Lake Publishing
Content warnings: violence