Beneath the Surface

The startling debut of Simon Strantzas with tales of dark gods and monsters of the flesh, emissaries from a world beneath our own, a world from where nightmares are born. Here, a man searches for truth in a universe that has forsaken him and pays the price for that knowledge, and a woman with out hope travels northward to find the place where her life fell to pieces and discovers of what she truly is made. They say no man is an island, no matter how much he wishes to be, but what then is that ship that sails toward him, and what pray tell is that lashed to its bow. These are tales that infect our dreams, tales of things that live beyond our understanding and watch us with malignant indifference. They are tales of grief, of loneliness, of guilt. Tales of the liminal places that separate our world from that other world, the world to which our souls are merely a gateway. Come inside and witness what resides in us all, deep down beneath the surface.

Table of Contents

Foreword To Beneath The Surface by Matt Cardin

A Shadow in God's Eye

It Runs Beneath the Surface

The Constant Encroaching of a Tumultuous Sea

A Thing of Love

Off the Hook

More to Learn

Behind Glass

In the Air

You Are Here

The Autumnal City

The Wound So Deep

Thoughtless

Leather, Dark and Cold

Drowned Deep Inside of Me

Afterword: Excerpts from a Writer's Journal

"One of the most important debut short story collection in the genre."
-- Stephen Jones