Small Town Silhouettes gathers 28 original stories of creeping dread, rural darkness, and the particular horror that only close-knit communities can breed.

These are the places where everyone knows everyone… and where terrible secrets are not buried deep enough. From a Bengali village where the earth itself swallows the lonely, to a Norwegian hamlet where the moon holds its sinners, to a Kentucky neighbourhood where a mother’s herb garden hides more than the neighbours know, every story is rooted in a place that feels achingly, uncomfortably real.

There is a particular kind of dread that belongs to the small towns in this anthology, where you will find ghosts still trapped in their childhood homes, unable to move on. You will find ancient entities beneath towns that have kept their secrets for centuries. You will find cults dressed as congregations, predators dressed as saviours, and curses woven so deeply into a community’s foundations that tearing them out might bring the whole town down.

Small Town Silhouettes brings together twenty-eight writers from across the globe, from the United Kingdom to Bangladesh, the Philippines to Scandinavia, Canada to West Africa, united by a single premise: the small town as crucible of dread. Featuring the works of Andrea Tillmanns, Atlas Wilder, Celeste Kerspuy, Ciaran McLarnon, Denise Landry, Donna Marie West, Gabriella Balcom, Henry Vinicio Valerio Madriz, JB Corso, John Timm, Julie Brandon, Kevin Patrick McCann, Lanson Wells, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Linda M. Crate, Louise Gillespie, M. M. Saint, Marc Watson, Michael Washburn, Nathan Poole Shannon, Rasiika Sen, Rich McFarlin, Shannon Hatch, Siamul Islam, Simon Mohsin, Solape Adetutu Adeyemi, Stephen Lang AND W. J. Manares