Uncertainties: Volume V

Edited by Brian J. Showers. Cover image by Ksenia Korniewska.

"Surely all this is not without meaning." — Herman Melville

“Ghost stories,” as Elizabeth Bowen observed, “are not easy to write — least easy now, for they involve more than they did.” But these twelve 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 Canada, America, the United Kingdom, and the island of Ireland — 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...

Contents:

"Foreword" by Brian J. Showers
"Three Sisters Bog" by Eoin Murphy
"First a Bird" by Ramsey Campbell
"To See the Sea" by Sean Hogan
"Everything We Say and All the Things We Do" by Jason E. Rolfe
"Not Even Legend" by Alan Moore
"Skeleton Day" by Aislinn Clarke
"Malady of Laughter" by Inna Effress
"Little Lives" by Deirdre Sullivan
"So Much Potential" by Simon Strantzas
"Away" by Nina Antonia
"Washed in the Blood of the Sun" by John Langan
"Trap" by Carly Holmes
"Contributor Notes"
"Acknowledgments"