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Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. His non-fiction anthology Writing The Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) won the British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction 2022, while his short story collection Only The Broken Remain (Black Shuck Books) was shortlisted for two British Fantasy Awards in 2021 (Best Collection, Best Newcomer). In 2018 his anthology of British folk-horror, This Dreaming Isle (Unsung Stories), was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award and a Shirley Jackson Award. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies, including Nox Pareidolia, Beyond the Veil, Mother: Tales of Love and Terror and Fiends in the Furrows III. His latest anthology - Isolation - was published by Titan Books ...more

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	Unquiet Guests by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author), Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Dreaming Isle by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Michael Hurley, Ramsey Campbell 3.77 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing the Uncanny: Essays on Crafting Strange Fiction by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard V. Hirst (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lucie McKnight Hardy 4.08 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Come Sing for the Harrowing 3.90 avg rating — 110 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales From the Shadow Booth, Vol. 1 by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary Budden (Goodreads Author), Daniel Carpenter (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ka Mate: Travels in New Zealand 3.38 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of the Darkness by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jenn Ashworth, Alison Moore 4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only the Broken Remain 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales From the Shadow Booth, Vol. 2 by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ (Contributor), Dan Grace (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Being Dad: Short Stories About Fatherhood by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Toby Litt (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dan Rhodes (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My new novella with Black Shuck Books, Where Once He Stood, was actually published yesterday... but as you'll see from the news below, events got in the way.
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“The membrane between worlds was thinner out here than the inland-dwelling peoples could ever realise, so they expected no help.”
― Dan Coxon, This Dreaming Isle

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“In the novel Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford, the slugs which inhabit the narrator’s garden at night are ‘shrivelling over the pebble and dirt like the skin on staling fruit’.11 Here the visual image this summons is unsettling: the slug being likened to a foodstuff implies that it may be devoured, with all the revulsion that would entail, but without stating this explicitly.”
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“This effect can often derive from the negative spaces that inhabit a story: the absence of information, the dearth of explanation, the omission of clarification and exposition. It is human nature to seek to fill in the gaps, and when the writer withholds these nuggets that will help the reader make sense of a story, the reader’s own interpretation is often more unsettling because it will draw on their own fears, paranoias and phobias. Sometimes, the absence of something can be more unnerving than a sinister presence.”
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