ABOUT THIS BOOK From an old regional theatre on the English coast to a Hollywood sound stage, an odd audition in London, by way of a sad and lonely hotel that attracts a series of strange residents. And much else too. Here are reflections on the nature of truth, how fiction and childish verse can impact reality, and the dangers inherent in retreating from that reality. Photographs and hauntings. Loss and longing. Just how lucky is it being lucky. Strange revenges and even stranger curses.
These nineteen tales of skewed everyday existence, divorced from the outwardly mundane world, demonstrate that all is not quite how it at first appears. These small, uneasy dramas play out in the shadows, in the twilight, hiding from the rational world.
These stories embrace the Shadows.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn
Totu Stephen Volk
If MGM is Killed, Who Gets the Lion? Ray Bradbury
Damaged but Adorable Rosanne Rabinowitz
As Far as Sacred Goes Nancy Kilpatrick
Stigma Paul Kane
The Charmed Robert Bagnall
Never to be Told Colleen Anderson & Tom Johnstone
Ever So Quietly, Ever So Softly Gary McMahon
I Is for Infestation Steve Rasnic Tem
The Fire Ghost Gail-Nina Anderson
Begbrook Tim Jeffreys
Echoes, Dying Marion Pitman
Commitment to Truth Bret McCormick
The Pit KC Grifant
The Long Drop Upwards Garry Kilworth
December’s Children John Linwood Grant
The Rosehill Truth Doctor Wendy Purcell
He Dances Alone Joanne Anderton
South Riding Reggie Oliver