When Eliot first spies the booth at the end of the pier, he wonders what it is. The canvas is faded, the striped pattern barely visible beneath years of dirt. The wooden boards are stained and bare. It's the crude, handwritten sign that draws him closer, makes him reach out to pull the curtain aside. Enter the Shadow Booth, it says, and you will never be the same again. Welcome to The Shadow Booth, a new journal of weird and eerie fiction, edited by Dan Coxon. Drawing its inspiration from the likes of Thomas Ligotti and Robert Aickman, The Shadow Booth explores that dark, murky hinterland between mainstream horror and literary fiction. Volume 1 contains stories by: Gary Budden, Dan Carpenter, Malcolm Devlin, Stephen Hargadon, David Hartley, Richard V. Hirst, Timothy J. Jarvis, Alison Moore, Annie Neugebauer, Sarah Read, Joseph Sale, Richard Thomas and Paul Tremblay.

The Shadow Booth: Vol. 1

Literature & Fiction

TREMBLAY, Paul

MOORE, ALISON

Thomas, Richard

Read, Sarah

Coxon, Dan

Devlin, Malcolm

Budden, Gary

Hirst, Richard V.

Hargadon, Stephen

Neugubauer, Annie

Genre Fiction

Independently published

About the Author\nMalcolm Devlin’s stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, The Shadow Booth and Shadows and Tall Trees. His first collection, You Will Grow Into Them, was published by Unsung Stories in 2017 and shortlisted for the British Fantasy and Saboteur Awards. He currently lives in Brisbane.\n"Intelligent, compassionate and unsettling."―The New York Times\n“Devlin twists and breaks the typical zombie narrative without spoiling one of the cleverest conceits in recent horror. Suffice to say that the author takes a scalpel to the post-truth era.”―Esquire\nIn the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.\nIn a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it’s hard to be certain of anything…\nSpence is one of the “cured” living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to help her find her old crew. But if he can’t tell the truth from the lies, how will he know if he has earned the redemption he dreams of? How will he know he hasn’t just made things worse?

And Then I Woke Up

Tor.com

Malcolm Devlin's You Will Grow Into Them is a collection of immaculately written tales that deftly mix darkness with a playful imagination. The results are stories that are as entertaining and humane as they are deeply unsettling. We need more stories in the world like these., Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of GhostsDevlin's collection, like Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney before it, is set to become one of the decade's landmarks of English weird. Nina Allan, author of The Race and The Rift This debut collection of stories by Malcolm Devlin is one of the best I've read in years. By turns subtle, tender and brutal, and full of the sort of beauty one only finds in the hear's darkest corner, You Will Grow Into Them made me both jealous and grateful., Stories like this are exactly why I love to read. Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters You Will Grow Into Them is filled with stories that are deceptively simple and perilously elegant. They look like fairy tales, but aren't really - In fact they are best described as a precise alchemy of language., Perfectly pitched, thoroughly disquieting, You Will Grow Into Them is like a light in the darkness that might lead you home or lure you from the path. Malcolm Devlin is one of our finest voices. Angela Slatter, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bitterwood Bible & Other RecountingsThe world is a far stranger place than we give it credit for., There, in the things we think familiar, safe, are certain aspects. Our fears and desires given form. Moments that defy explanation., Shadows in our home. In Malcolm Devlin's debut collection, change is the only constant. Across nine stories he tackles the unease of transformation, growth and change in a world where horror seeps from the mundane., Childhood anxieties manifest as debased and degraded doppelgangers, fungal blooms are harvested from the backs of dancers and lycanthropes become the new social pariahs. The demons we carry inside us a

You Will Grow Into Them

Short Stories & Anthologies

Unsung Stories

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land crosses genres and dimensions, exploring the consequences of a rare cosmic anomaly. In the exact same moment, all possible versions of Prentis O’Rourke will cease to exist. By accident, by malice, by conflict, by illness – Prentis will not simply die. He will go extinct. These are the stories of the journeys we take and the journeys we wish we’d taken. 
Malcolm Devlin’s second short story collection ranges from science fiction to folk horror as Prentis O’Rourke’s demise echoes across the dimensions. Scientists, artists, ex-nuns, taxi drivers, time travellers and aliens – the same people living varied lives in subtly different worlds. Something unprecedented will happen, and it will colour them all. 
Crossing multiple realities, countless versions of ourselves, and shifting backwards and forwards through time, these are stories of forking paths and unexpected destinations – of flying and falling and getting up to try again.

Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land

Literary

Unsung Stories Limited

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