The Five Stages

by Jason Whittle

Introducing 50 years of the finest Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror short stories of Jason Whittle!

Celebrate a hellish half century of Whittle's work in this collection, released on his 50th birthday, featuring zombies, ghosts, dystopias, psychological horror, and the end of the world!

From the Horror Writers Net forum to the official George Romero tribute anthology, this collection marks the evolution of a writing career, culminating in a haunting batch of brand new unpublished stories.

Discover the stories, discover the man.

139 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2025

About the author

Jason has had one novel and a handful of short stories published; mostly in horror fiction, but he writes in a variety of genres. Alongside his fiction work he is also a sports writer, and has a regular column in the Chester FC matchday programme, while a one-off piece appeared in the official Southampton FC supporters' yearbook 2014-15.

He is currently finishing an MA at the University of Winchester, for which this project will be the dissertation, and he intends to follow it up with a PhD. His novella Escaping Firgo will be published by Kristell Ink later in 2017 or early in 2018, and several self-published titles are currently available.

Reviews

[Martin Owton · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Five Stages is a very solid anthology leaning heavily to horror; fans of George Romero style zombies will find plenty to like. I am less of a horror reader than other genres so judging stories by how much I enjoy them is not a viable yardstick, I am judging them by how much they disturbed me, and plenty of them did. In Your Head, One of Them, TFV and Reptilian were particularly effective. It is not all horror though; The Line, The Goblet, and The Tankard is epic fantasy and the title story (the longest in the antho) is near-future SF/dystopia, and for my money the best piece.