Broken Ground, the first short story anthology from Uncertain Stories, is now available! It includes my ghost story ‘Owen’s Wynd’ and eerie stories from six more writers who, as editor Rob Redman wonderfully puts it, ‘take the world as it really is, more-or-less here, more-or-less now, and then they put a crack in that reality, just to see what light gets in.’
‘Owen’s Wynd‘ is set in a wee village in Fife, Scotland, and is a love letter to the classic ghost stories of one of the masters of spookiness, M R James. It’s a story I had a lot of fun with and I hope readers have fun with it too.
The team at Uncertain Stories are doing brilliant things with this project, including a strand of free Little Uncertainties to be found in cafes, bookshops, and bundled with orders of the Broken Ground anthology.
The first two Little Uncertainties, Briar Rose by Alex Clark, and Chalklands by Richard Smyth, are both deftly unsettling and well worth your time if you come across them in the wild.
Postcards of my very creepy and very short story ‘Mark’, beautifully illustrated by artist Lucy Scott, are also being let loose on unsuspecting readers, which I am absolutely delighted about.
The passion for the short story embodied by the team at Uncertain Stories is just invaluable both to writers and to readers – I’m so pleased to be a part of what they’re doing.
Eva Carson 