StoryEnglish Setting
Night Route
A late-night bus driver on the last run of the night discovers that the passengers you don’t see are the ones who stay with you long after the route is over.
Grounded in British Dread
The Soil Never Forgets
What Was Buried.
Visceral short horror fiction set in the marshes, canal cuts, and chalk hollows of England.
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Horror Fiction
All Stories (12)Tales from the English Mire
The Bridge
John Fletcher is about to find out that some bridges demand a toll that can never be repaid, and some keepers never let their catch cross over.
Head Wreck
Tom Finch hates his colleagues, and his headache. But his new friend Silas Drake has a better idea than Paracetamol...
Control
An ageing ad man discovers his job is on the line and things start to crack...
The Mound
Four soldiers battle-hardened from the Civil War seek silver...
Lucretia
John Finch goes for a walk by the mudflats and meets someone he wasn't expecting...
The Dead Ones — Assignment
Will Lewis could see and speak to dead people all is life. But then he meets Silas...
"Horror is what happens when the ordinary world tears open and refuses to sew itself back together. If you look away before the bone splinters, you aren't writing truth—you're just telling ghost stories."