The Off-Season
(2024)An Anthology of Coastal New Weird
(A book in the Dark Matter Presents series)
An anthology of stories edited by Marissa van Uden
25 Brand-New Nightmares. Contained within this anthology are strange and surreal stories of disquieting and disturbing "New Weird" horror set in landscapes and communities on the edge of the sea. These unsettling tales de-familiarize the ordinary, evoke dread in the daylight, and haunt like half-remembered dreams. They are tales of mysticism, psychedelia, outsiders, obsessions, collapsed boundaries, weird sea life, and the total abandonment of reason. Welcome to your stay on the other side. Please check your sanity at the door.
Stories included:"A Date on Berberoka Island" by Mars Abian
"The Teeth Game" by Alex Keikiakapueo Brewster
"Hell's Shells" by Raymonde Chira
"Keel" by Santiago Eximeno
"Somewhere Between Tomis and Callatis" by Adriana Grigore
"The Beach House with its Back to the Sea" by Íde Hennessy
"Where Everything Stays" by K. A. Honeywell
"Nā Heʻe" by Wailana Kalama
"Last Resort" by Sloane Leong
"Thumbs Up" by Anna Lewis
"We Are Not Yet Healed" by Avra Margariti
"The Ocean Vomits What We Discard" by J. A. W. McCarthy
"Bluebells" by Amanda Minkkinen
"Twilight Tide" by Samir Sirk Morató
"The Bench" by Jacy Morris
"So Full of the Shining Flesh" by Tiffany Morris
"Some Have No Shield At All" by Karter Mycroft
"All the Truth the Ocean Holds" by J. P. Oakes
"What Washes Up in Arizona" by Zachary Olson
"Dualhaven" by C. H. Pearce
"Neidhardt" by James Pollard
"EACH-UISGE" by Dave V. Riser
"Sunk" by Richard Thomas
"Esther of Prettyboy" by Kay Vaindal
"The Love of All Seeing Flesh" by Hazel Zorn
Genre: Horror
Stories included:"A Date on Berberoka Island" by Mars Abian
"The Teeth Game" by Alex Keikiakapueo Brewster
"Hell's Shells" by Raymonde Chira
"Keel" by Santiago Eximeno
"Somewhere Between Tomis and Callatis" by Adriana Grigore
"The Beach House with its Back to the Sea" by Íde Hennessy
"Where Everything Stays" by K. A. Honeywell
"Nā Heʻe" by Wailana Kalama
"Last Resort" by Sloane Leong
"Thumbs Up" by Anna Lewis
"We Are Not Yet Healed" by Avra Margariti
"The Ocean Vomits What We Discard" by J. A. W. McCarthy
"Bluebells" by Amanda Minkkinen
"Twilight Tide" by Samir Sirk Morató
"The Bench" by Jacy Morris
"So Full of the Shining Flesh" by Tiffany Morris
"Some Have No Shield At All" by Karter Mycroft
"All the Truth the Ocean Holds" by J. P. Oakes
"What Washes Up in Arizona" by Zachary Olson
"Dualhaven" by C. H. Pearce
"Neidhardt" by James Pollard
"EACH-UISGE" by Dave V. Riser
"Sunk" by Richard Thomas
"Esther of Prettyboy" by Kay Vaindal
"The Love of All Seeing Flesh" by Hazel Zorn
Genre: Horror
Used availability for Marissa van Uden's The Off-Season