Corpse Road Blues: An Exploration of Contemporary Hauntings

by Eric Nash

Corpse Road Blues by Eric NashThis collection of short stories explores the many ways we are haunted.

And highlights social issues including homelessness, domestic abuse, hate crime, and the rise of Nationalism; philosophical viewpoints, such as free thought; while discussing themes of grief and loss.

Inside, you’ll find someone’s daughter lost in a puddle; a young artist struggling with his inability to feel pain; a niece resorting to an unusual form of exorcism upon herself; a transplant patient haunted by a past that isn’t his own; a Christmas Tree that helps the dead, with terrifying results for the living...


Cover illustration Mutartis Boswell
Cover Design by Adrian Baldwin

165 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2025

About the author

Eric Nash (he/him) is a short story writer from South West England. His dark tales have been published in numerous venues including Horror Library 8 by Dark Moon Books, Coffin Bell Journal, Dark Horses magazine, and Demain’s Short Sharp Shocks! series. His work also made Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year recommended list volume 16. Catch up with him at his website: https://eric-nash-inked-up-and-earthb....

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fine collection of short dark tales. Eric Nash balances the grim with the soulful as real emotion interweaves shadows and elements as disparate as Greek mythology, marginalised community biogtry, voyeurism, body horror and rural folk creepiness. My favourite was 'The Body in Deer Leap Woods' - which has a ghastly atmosphere of its own and stayed with me long after the Kindle cover was closed...