Alone on the Borderland

An anthology of new, strange and weird fiction, from the dawn of the 20th century through the aftermath of the Great War.

Seventeen new, unsettling and strange stories set between 1901 and 1919 - from the death of Queen Victoria to the immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Spanish Influenza epidemic. This is classic Weird Fiction, subverting many standard tropes, with strong psychological components, evoking Edwardian dread.

Edited by John Linwood Grant (The Book of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives, Occult Detective Quarterly)

Table of ContentsA Light, Electric -- Terry Grimwood

Fly in the Ointment -- Christina Ladd

Red Trunk -- David E Kruegger

Panic -- E Saxey

Scratch -- Katie Magnusson

The Aftermath of Failing to Touch a Star -- Tim Prasil

The Dreaming Dead -- Liam Hogan

Cleander -- John McFarland

The Bull Nose Pistol -- Tim Newton Anderson

The Monkey Box -- DJ Tyrer

Blue Bench -- D Glenn Seguin

Who is the Third? -- Nadia Steven Rysing

Cold Hands -- W L Silverwood

When the Sea Gives up Her Dead -- Ian A Watson

Prevailing Winds -- C A Collins

The Thaumatrope -- Victoria Yardley

An Indefinite Kingdom -- Josh Reynolds