Lost in the wilderness, or alone in the dark, isolation remains one of our deepest held fears. This horror anthology from Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award finalist Dan Coxon calls on leading horror writers to confront the dark moments, the challenges that we must face alone: survivors in a world gone silent; the outcast shunned by society; the quiet voice trapped in the crowd; the lonely and forgotten, screaming into the abyss.
Experience the chilling terrors of Isolation.
Featuring stories by:
Nina Allan
Laird Barron
Ramsey Campbell
M.R. Carey
Chịkọdịlị Emelumadu
Brian Evenson
Owl Goingback
Gwendolyn Kiste
Joe R. Lansdale
Tim Lebbon
Alison Littlewood
Ken Liu
Jonathan Maberry
Michael Marshall Smith
Mark Morris
Lynda E. Rucker
A.G. Slatter
Paul Tremblay
Lisa Tuttle
Marian Womack
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THERE'S a family building a snowman outside a little wooden house.THE SNOW CHILD BY ALISON LITTLEWOOD
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(@TitanBooks, 13 September 2022, e-book, 400 pages, #ARC from the publisher)
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I enjoyed all of the stories in Isolation. As you'd expect, quite a few of the stories explored the Pandemic and lockdowns. Thankfully, this was only a few stories and many offered something more original. I enjoyed the fact the stories take the idea of Isolation and tackled this in many different ways so no two stories were alike. The stories were mostly dark as you'd expect. I especially liked The Snow Child by Alison Littlewood, The Long Dead Day by Joe R. Lansdale, Alone is a Long Time by Michael Marshall Smith and Chalk. Sea. Sand. Sky. Stone by Lyda E. Rucker. This is well worth a read.
