UNHOLY BEGINNINGS AND UNHAPPY ENDINGS

From the introduction by Shirley Jackson award-nominated author Steve Dillon : "It’s perhaps fitting that this, my final collection of short stories, should be titled so – the wording came to me several years ago, but I had no idea then it would mark the end of my writing career. Writing has become more and more taxing and draining over the past few years, and while this book has been almost ready for publication for a few of those, I haven’t had the compulsion to publish until now. I hope you enjoy some of these stories, of various lengths, quality, and themes. They are dark and therefore likely to draw you down a deep well as their inception did to me…" Don’t Ever Camp There F*Con The Bear Pile The Thin King The Mountain that Wasn’t Portophobia The Package Beatle City Blues Ghost in the Park Well and Truly Lost Sharing is Caring Somnambulism Black Dog Nights The Piggy Wiggy Man – extended cut Invisibles Alone Again, Unnaturally Twin Lines Identity Theft Ten Years After Darker Delvings The Redeemer Cine-mania Facing Your Demon Funeral Rights Spinning Snakeskin Creek All stories are new to this collection with the exception of The Thin King (From Dark Tas , Things in The Well) and The Mountain that Wasn’t (From Dark Tas , Things in The Well)