Swallowed By The Cracks

by Lee Thomas, Gary McMahon, S.G. Browne

HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW... Life is fleeting. Things happen quickly. One moment you're at the office, or maybe sitting in your living room; more of the same old, same old. And the next...You're gone. Forever. For the brave, Dark Arts Books presents sixteen tales of those sudden moments when life goes from light to dark, laughing to screaming, bad to worse. Scary to...unspeakable. Four of horror's brightest talents light up the corners, illuminate the shadows and show you ready or not what's there in the dark, where if you're not careful, you might end up Swallowed By The Cracks.

308 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2011

About the author

LEE THOMAS is the Bram Stoker Award and the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of STAINED , ASH STREET , THE DUST OF WONDERLAND , and THE GERMAN . Recent and forthcoming titles include LIKE LIGHT FOR FLIES , and BUTCHER’S ROAD . Forthcoming titles include DOWN ON YOUR KNEES (Oct 2016), and DISTORTION (May 2017).

ADDITIONAL TITLES:
TORN
IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED
FOCUS
THE BLACK SUN SET
CRISIS
PARISH DAMNED

Reviews

[Martel Sardina · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the things I love most about Dark Arts Books anthology series is the chance to discover authors that I might not have read before. While I am familiar with the work of Lee Thomas, S.G. Browne and Michael Marshall Smith, I had not read anything by Gary McMahon prior to reading his stories in Swallowed By The Cracks. I had the pleasure of reading this collection as part of my duty as the Long Fiction Jury Chair for the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards. While Gary McMahon's "The Ghost In You" did not make the final ballot in the Long Fiction category, it was one of my "top 10" picks of the stories I read that year. That story is as heartbreaking as it is scary. It stuck with me long after I'd read it.

Other stories from this anthology that I loved include: "I'm Your Violence" by Lee Thomas, "REM Temps" and "Death Light" by Michael Marshall Smith and "Dream Girls" by S.G. Browne.

Whether you love outright scares, horror with a comic edge or stories that will just make you think about life in a different way, this anthology has something to suit the taste of nearly every reader.

Martel Sardina