Step into
the shadows…
Volume V of The Dark Corner had a suggested theme of Sacrifice. A life taken for a life to be saved. Blood rituals for family and foe. An offering accepted and a bargain made. Welcome to The Dark Corner…
Awakenings by David O’Mahony
“Every year I promise I’ll figure it all out, and every year the promise drifts away like grass on a river. ”
Forest Bank Mill by Chris Lyon
“In the silence, I realised I felt something, in the room, standing right next to me. And it was laughing.”
The Dark Beyond the Dunes by Weaver Melching
“I hadn’t ever been deep into the desert, especially not at night. You would catch your death. But, I’d always wondered how the cactuses looked in the dark beyond the dunes. “
Bob Thompson Feeds the Fire by Dan Eady
“His bones felt like they ground together whenever he moved and his right hand has had a tremor for months that only seems to go away when on the grip of his axe.”
Goddess of Creation by Sharon Keating
“I lift my glass. Its round bulb is sticky with rust-brown smudges. My head spins as I tilt it back…consuming. A wretched hag turned goddess, here, in this tiny apartment temple. “
Mr Mulvinchy’s Night Terror by Andrea Cartmill
“Mr Mulvinchy had that unhappy ability, which sometimes you will find that teachers have, especially those most dreaded, of seeming to be able to read your mind.”
Snow by Mark T. Bates
“His dead brother’s missing portable tape-player, that had now appeared without rhyme or reason in a box under his bed.”
Stitch by Ciara Campbell
“What Walter Potter created in reality, Beatrix Potter released into imagination. I would never have loved it in reverse.”
The Fear Tree by Rúairí Hickson
“Some trees can be said to “walk” by nature of the core trunk dying and a secondary one emerging from its tendriling roots. This network threads far beyond the tree’s canopy to create a new head, like a hydra constantly regenerating.”
Lake of Stars by Cian Doherty
“People gave easily to an albino boy, sitting under the searing African sun with only a torn fisherman’s hat for protection.”
The Collectibles by Heidi Marjamäki
“The shock of it, of her, was a sudden hollowness in my chest I was a second late in hiding.
Mackie saw it. I could tell by the way his lips curled.”
The Dark Corner 