Out Now: Phengaris
There’s something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.
Mark Warner never noticed it before. He’s there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.
Birds sing in the wood. But their rhythms seem wrong somehow. Insects crawl and nest, but not where you’d expect them to.
Something in Thurstrop Wood has noticed him. And now it’s seen him – it doesn’t want to let him go…
Surreally beautiful and uncomfortably visceral, Phengaris’ eco-horrors will stay with you long after the final page
from Nefarious Bat Press
About the Author
Anna was born in Birmingham, U.K. After completing a degree in English and Related Literatures at the University of York, she spent a number of years teaching English in Spain and Slovakia. She now lives in London with her family, and works as a climate action advisor for a charity. Her short horror fiction has appeared in Mslexia, The Gothic Nature Journal, The Crow’s Quill and Ghost Orchid Press collections Rewired: Divergent Perspectives In Horror and Rock Band. Her essay ‘Bihexuality In The Craft’ appeared in the 2023 Off Limits Press anthology Divergent Terror: The Crossroads Of Queerness and Horror. One of her short pieces of dark speculative fiction, ‘Backdrop’ adapted by Alternative Stories and Fake Realities for an audiodrama. Her publications in 2024 included contributions to ‘Short Scares: Two Sentence Horrors anthology’ and Luna Press anthology ‘The Utopia Of Us’.
You can find Anna online on Bluesky and on Mastodon at @GreyElm@mastodon.online.
Stories
- Backdrop: an Audio Drama (Alternative Stories and Fake Realities, November 2020)
- The Moon Doth Shine Bright as Day (Solar Punk Storytelling, 2023)
- Fire Body (First Place, Hot Words Winners – Hot Poets)
- Marble Run (The Toy Box | The Crow’s Quill, November 2022)
- Riverman (Rock Band: An Anthology of Music-Inspired Dark Microfiction [Hundred Word Horror])
- Lantern Men (Rewired: Divergent Perspectives in Horror, ed. A.R. Ward)
- Mirror Image (Nothing Is As It Was: 32 stories About Climate Change, ed. Amanda Saint)
- Bittersweet Feast / The Persistence of Swine / To Savour Dawn (The Utopia of Us: An anthology inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s ‘We’, ed. Teika Marija Smits)
- Microfiction (Short Scares: Two Sentence Horrors, ed. Lauren Carter)
- Bihexuality in ‘The Craft’ (Divergent Terror: At the Crossroads of Queerness and Horror, ed.)
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Illustration from “The moon doth shine as bright as day.” Art: Dustin Jacobus.
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