This Dreaming Isle

Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Best Anthology (Finalist) 2018

British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology (Finalist) 2019

Something strange is happening on British shores.

Britain has a long history of folk tales, ghost stories and other uncanny fictions, and these literary ley lines are still shimmering beneath the surface of this green and pleasant land. Every few generations this strangeness crawls out from the dark places of the British imagination, seeping into our art and culture. We are living through such a time.

This Dreaming Isle is an anthology of new horror stories and weird fiction with a distinctly British flavour. It collects together fifteen brand new horrifying or unsettling stories that draw upon the landscape and history of the British Isles for their inspiration. Some explore the realms of myth and legend, others are firmly rooted in the present, engaging with the country’s forgotten spaces.

Featuring new and exclusive stories from:

Ramsey Campbell, multi-award winning author of over 40 novels

Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney and Devil’s Day

Catriona Ward, author of Rawblood and Little Eve

Robert Shearman, World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning author of four collections

Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell, Cold Light and more

Gareth E. Rees, author of Marshland and The Stone Tide

Tim Lebbon, screenwriter and author of over 35 books including Dusk, The Silence and Relics

Alison Littlewood, author of The Crow Garden, The Hidden People and more

Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty, The Arrival of Missives and The Loosening Skin (forthcoming from Unsung Stories)

Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author of Whitstable, Monsters in the Heart and more

Kirsty Logan, author of The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart

James Miller, author of UnAmerican Activities, Lost Boys and Sunshine State

Jeannette Ng, author of Under the Pendulum Sun

Richard V. Hirst, co-author of The Night Visitors

Alison Moore, author of The Lighthouse, Missing and more

Gary Budden, author of Hollow Shores

Angela Readman, author of Don’t Try This at Home and The Book of Tides