Lost Places

Jacket design by Jason Van Hollander from a photograph by Wendy Unsworth

SIMON KURT UNSWORTH was born in 1972 and lives in the north of England, somewhere between Lancaster and Morecambe, with his gorgeous wife, exuberant son, and two dogs rescued from the local dogs' home. By profession he works for a charity as a trainer, working across the whole of the U.K., which gives him plenty of time on trains to write stories. His work has previously been published by the BBC, by Ash-Tree Press in their anthologies At Ease with the Dead and Shades of Darkness, in Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes, and in Ellen Datlow's anthology Lovecraft Unbound. His story from At Ease with the Dead, 'The Church on the Island', was reprinted in Stephen Jones's Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19 and was a 2008 World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Short Story. It has also been selected for inclusion in the Very Best of Best New Horror. This is his first collection.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction by Barbara Roden
• A Different Morecambe
• Haunting Marley
• The Derwentwater Shark
• When the World Goes Quiet
• Old Man's Pantry
• Scucca
• Flappy the Bat
• A Meeting of Gemmologists
• Where Cats Go
• The Baking of Cakes
• The Lemon in the Pool
• Stevie's Duck
• Forest Lodge
• The Station Waiting Room
• The Animal Game
• An Afternoon with Danny
• The Pennine-Tower Restaurant
• The Church on the Island
• Endword/Story Notes

Limited to 400 copies.