Uncertainties VII
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Cover art by James F. Johnston
Selected by Carly Holmes
“It came out of the dark, and into the dark it has gone again.” – E. F. Benson
“Ghost stories,” as Elizabeth Bowen observed, “are not easy to write—least easy now, for they involve more than they did.” But these eleven writers take up the challenge, each in their own way, with expert awareness of the genre’s limitless possibilities.
Uncertainties is an anthology series—featuring authors from Wales, England, Germany, Canada, and the United States—each exploring the concept of increasingly fragmented senses of reality. These types of short stories were termed “strange tales” by Robert Aickman, called “tales of the unexpected” by Roald Dahl, and known to Shakespeare’s ill-fated Prince Mamillius as “winter’s tales”. But these are no mere ghost stories. These tales of the uncanny grapple with existential epiphanies of the modern day, when otherwise familiar landscapes become sinister and something decidedly less than certain . . .
Limited to 425 copies
| Publisher | Swan River Press |
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