Come Sing for the Harrowing - new collection out now!

My second collection of short stories, Come Sing For The Harrowing, was published by Weird Little Worlds on 10 October and I can't wait for you to read it! Some of these stories have been published in magazines and anthologies over the last couple of years, but seven of them have never seen the light of day before (and a couple have been reworked for the collection). Overall they're a strange blend of folk horror and weird fiction - I set myself a mission to try and warp the familiar folk horror tropes into something original and contemporary. You can decide whether I succeeded.

A select few people have had a chance to read it in advance, and I'm thrilled to say that the word is good. Brian Evenson has very kindly written a Foreword to the collection, and had this to say:

 "The stories are deft and subtle, occupying that sweet spot where the weird and the strange and unsettling and the uncanny converge and collide... Here, he proves himself capable of not only continuing to reweave and manipulate the possibilities of folk horror, but of making inroads into countless other avenues of the strange. Indeed, Coxon’s stories find an Aickmanesque balance where their strangenesses can simply be, and where we feel increasingly that we are witnessing characters who find themselves in over their heads in a world that they cannot fully understand. Coxon is a writer who, flitting on the edge of horror as a genre, extends and complicates the domains of folk horror and the weird in important ways."

In addition, Eric LaRocca had this to say about it:

“Come Sing for the Harrowing is a true gift for connoisseurs of the bizarre and the unusual. Sinister and deeply affecting, Coxon’s remarkable collection is too compelling, too inventive to miss.”

And Laird Barron commented that:

"Dan Coxon expertly weaves modern gothic and folk horror. Come Sing for the Harrowing brims with specters, blood-soaked occult rituals, and old, hungry gods. Salvation and damnation haunt these pages, locked in an infernal embrace."

You can pre-order a copy direct from Weird Little Worlds, or orders are also open on Amazon (both .com and .co.uk) if that's easier. I even have a few copies left on my shelf, if you're in the UK and would like a signed copy.

The Reaper is coming...