A brooding uncle takes an au pair’s passport. Years of tension between a father and a son erupt with violent consequences. A man disappears along a lonely mail route . . . and it has happened before. From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Lighthouse comes this uncanny collection of short fiction about the unhomeliness of home: Fractured families, domestic claustrophobia, and the unseen menace of the everyday. With the same emotional tension and tightly controlled prose that garnered her first novel such accolades, Moore once again shines a light into the darkest corners of the human heart, moving deftly from flash fiction to novella, from insightful realism to chilling gothic horror.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
When the Door Closed, It Was Dark
Humming and Pinging
The Egg
Overnight Stop
Glory Hole
Nuture
Seclusion
Sleeping Under the Stars
Jetsam
Monsoon Puddles
It Has Happened Before
The Yacht Man
The Machines
Wink Wink
If There’s Anything Left
Static
Sometimes You Think You Are Alone
A Small Window
The Smell of the Slaughterhouse
Helicopter Jean
Small Animals
Trees in the Tarmac
Late
The Pre-War House
About the author
Alison Moore’s first novel,
The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Awards, winning the Mc Kitterick Prize. Both
The Lighthouse and her second novel,
He Wants (Biblioasis, 2016), were
Observer Books of the Year. Her most recent novel is
Death and the Seaside (forthcoming from Biblioasis). Her short fiction has been included in
Best British Short Stories and
Best British Horror anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio. The title story of her debut collection,
The Pre-War House and Other Stories, won a novella prize. Her first children’s book,
Sunny and the Ghosts, will be published in the UK in 2018.
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