Short Stories

A Curious Cartography is a short story collection available now from Black Shuck Books. Tales of dark lore, inescapable hauntings, peculiar beasts, strange birds and mysterious happenings from across the known world and beyond…


A House the Size of Me is in The Other Side of Never.


The Flowering is a micro-collection, published as one of Black Shuck Books’ popular Shadows series. It features six short stories, all set in the Victorian era: The Zoetrope, The Marvellous Talking Machine, Meet Me at the Frost Fair, The Ballad Box, The Winter Tree and The Flowering.


The Snow Child is in Isolation.


The Same as the Air is in Best New Horror #31.


The Light You Can Hear is in Songs of the Northern Seas.


Jenny Greenteeth is in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror.


Swanskin is in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror.


Let’s Dance is in the No More Heroes anthology.


Words is in the Bitter Distillations anthology.


The Sisters of Epione is in Sisterhood.


The Marvellous Talking Machine is in Best New Horror #30.


Swanskin is in the After Sundown anthology.


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The Zoetrope is online at The Dark, or support the magazine by purchasing the whole issue.


The Merrie Dancers is in the Cursed anthology.


The Hungry Ghosts is in Shadows & Tall Trees 8.


Eat Me, Drink Me is in Wonderland.


The July Girls is in Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories.


The Goddess of the Rain is in Dark and Stormy Nights.


The Same as the Air is in Ten Word Tragedies.


Down in the Dendrons is in The Book of Flowering.


The Entertainment Arrives is in Best New Horror #29.


The Marvellous Talking Machine is in Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre.


The Entertainment Arrives is in Year’s Best Weird Fiction 5.


The Headland of Black Rock is in This Dreaming Isle.


White Feathers is in Best New Horror Volume 28.


The Halloween Monster is in The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories.


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Ways to Wake is online at Nightmare Magazine. There’s also a free audio version as well as an author spotlight.


The Entertainment Arrives is in Darker Companions, celebrating the work of Ramsey Campbell.


The Boggle Hole is in New Fears.


The Adventure of the Avid Pupil is in Sherlock Holmes’s School for Detection.


The Ballad Box is in Murder Ballads.


The Orphan Bird is in Black Feathers.


A Midwinter EntertainmentMeet Me at the Frost Fair is in A Midwinter Entertainment.


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In the Quiet and in the Dark is online at Far Fetched Fables, episode 118.


Meet Me at the Frost Fair is in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2017.


BestHorror7The Dog’s Home is in Best Horror of the Year: Volume 7.


HydeHotelThe View from the Basement is in The Hyde Hotel.


SaltBestHorrorOn Ilkley Moor is in Best British Horror 2015.


MBO Sherlock Holmes Abroad UK coverThe Mystery of the Red City is in The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad.


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Wolves and Witches and Bears is online at Nightmare Magazine. There’s also a free audio version as well as an author spotlight.


postscripts-32-33-far-voyagerA Legion of Echoes is in Postscripts 32/33 Far Voyager.


Whispers in the DarkOne Nameless Thing, a novella, is in Whispers in the Dark: A Cthulhu Anthology.


ZA EndgameZombie vs. Zombi  is in Zombie Apocalypse! Endgame, created by Stephen Jones.


TTs_of_YorkshireOn Ilkley Moor is in Terror Tales of Yorkshire.


Beside The Seaside CoverThat’s the Way To Do It  is in Beside the Seaside, edited by Scott Harrison.


Black ApplesBluebeard’s Child is in Black Apples: 18 new fairy tales.


Two stories, The Discord of Being and The Eyes of Water, are in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24.


The Eyes of Water is in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2013.


In the Quiet and in the Dark is in The Best British Fantasy 2013.


4 a.m. When the Walls are Thinnest is in The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 10.


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Wolves and Witches and Bears is at Nightmare Magazine

Waiting for the Light is at Nightmare Magazine.

The Bone Fire – in the ‘sketchbook’ issue of Estronomicon, with an illustration by the author.

Yellow John New Fairy Tales #3.


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Wolves and Witches and Bears is at Nightmare Magazine

The Empty Spaces is at Tales to Terrify.

Waiting for the Light is online at Nightmare Magazine.

Listen to 4 a.m. When the Walls are Thinnest at Tales to Terrify episode 20.

The Fifth Day – a Christmas story – is in an audio anthology by Dark Fiction.

Yellow John – the New Fairy Tales audio collection.


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The Soul Eaters of Raveloe was in Resurrection Engines.

The Art of Escapology was in the Magic anthology.

To Run Away, To Join the Circus was in A Carnivale of Horror.

Scairt was in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women.

On the Grey Road was in the Hauntings anthology.

The Song of the City was in The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic.

About the Dark was in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror volume 23.

Like Suffolk, Like Holidays was in Terror Tales of East Anglia.

Black Feathers was in Best Horror of the Year volume 4.

The Discord of Being was in Where Are We Going? from Eibonvale.

The Winter Tree was published as a hand-crafted, limited edition signed chapbook from White Noise Press.

In the Quiet and in the Dark was in Terror Tales of the Cotswolds.

Always Look on the Bright Side was in an anthology celebrating ten years of The Future Fire.

The Swarm was in the Screaming Book of Horror.

The Bright Penny was in Four for Fear.

The Lips of Every Sleeper was in Twisted Histories.

Soul Food was in Alt-Zombie.

The Ghost at the Feast was in Horror Uncut.

In On The Tide was in Never Again.

Black Feathers was in Black Static issue 22.

The Empty Spaces was in issue 16 of Black Static.

The Deep Walker was in Black Static magazine #7 from TTA Press.

The Devil’s Tavern was in Read by Dawn 3.

About the Dark was in Black Static issue 25.

4 a.m. When the Walls Are Thinnest was in Crimewave #11.

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