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Dead crows, Lovecraftian duck ponds, haunted tapes, and more to be found in the 12 short stories of the anthology. If you like the kind of horror that stalks you like a cursed shadow, then this is the book for you.

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What’s the vibe of the anthology?

From haunted houses to unsettling roommates, the stories in the anthology borrow spookiness wherever they can find it. There are only two rules:

1. Stories must take place in a familiar or domestic setting
2. They must elicit creeping dread

Reader be warned: after reading these stories, you may find yourself scared of ordinary household objects you’d never thought to fear before. Oranges, eggs, birth control, dosette boxes, abstract oil paintings, mugs with cartoon bulldogs on them, phonograph tapes — all will never be the same again.

Our purpose

Shannon Lewis and Amber Donovan-Stevens originally created the Slow Burn Horror blog in 2020 as a home for this anthology. They worked with fellow graduates of the University of East Anglia creative writing program Kathryn Leigh, Harry Menear, and Georgina Pearsall to gather a good collection of spooky stories. They were on track to launch in October 2020, right in time for the season of the witch. They pictured launch parties, book events, scary story sharing.

Shockingly, 2020 ended up becoming a bad year to launch something new. However, after two years, they decided to rekindle (pun intended) their plans to launch the anthology, still in October, just three years after they’d initially planned. They funded the anthology’s first print run with the support of readers via a Kickstarter, and are eternally grateful to them.