Uncertainties: Volume I

Edited by Brian J. Showers. Cover image by Chris Priestly.

"Turn and face the strange." — David Bowie

"It may be my own imagining, or perhaps the cumulative effect of reading the entire book over a couple of evenings, but the contents appeared to grow darker as the pages turned." – from the Foreword by John Connolly

Uncertainties is an anthology of new writing — featuring contributions from Irish, British, and American authors — each exploring the idea 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, and when otherwise familiar landscapes become sinister and something decidedly less than certain...

Contents:

• "Foreword" by John Connolly
• "The Faerie Ring" by John Reppion
• "From the Archives of the Westmeath Examiner" by Derek John
• "Wellaway" by Martin Hayes
• "Last Love" by John Kenny
• "On a Clear Day" by Robert Neilson
• "A Letter from McHenry" by Reggie Chamberlain-King
• "The Light at the Centre" by Maura McHugh
• "Fran’s Nan’s Story" by Sarah LeFanu
• "Flyblown" by Timothy J. Jarvis
• "To the Eternal One" by Mark Valentine
• "The Seance" by Lynda E. Rucker
• "Biographical Notes"
• "Acknowledgements"