If 'darkness' is the unifying theme of this collection of short stories, it takes on a wide variety of manifestations. It is a miscellany of Sci-fi, speculative fiction and fantasy, offering lots of action, blood and gore but also reflection and thoughtful curiosity about the world of darkness and all its possibilities and challenges. A polar research station, a Victorian Lunatic Asylum, a mythical lost city, abstract worlds of light and dark, a death bed, a black space where mysterious strings offer the chance of escape, or maybe destruction - these are just a few of the fascinating and disturbing places to be visited between the covers of DARKNESS.