Alison Davies is a young Nottingham born poet and writer and Small Deaths is her first collection of short horror stories. These are grim, tragic, horrific little tales of supernatural terror and death from a writer currently making huge waves in the small press. Here are vampires, ghosts, demons and also more human horrors for you to savour. Sixteen stories. What would you do if your first date turned out to be your last
Essentially spook stories; quiet, concentrated, brief. Most are less than five pages, the writing miniaturist, so the result are prose poems. Death is involved in every story. Natural and unnatural, the haunting and the haunted. No gore. Some sex, though perhaps not as much as abstaining readers desire. This might be a one-off for Davies as she now seems more involved with children's books.