The Ghastling: Book Twenty Two

Paperback | 76 pages | Out Now!

Eight brand new tales of terror from our themed issue devoted to all things Climate Horror….In Dustin Triplettโ€™s โ€˜The Last Good Seasonโ€™, strange things are happening in Marrowbone, a weather system thatโ€™s impossible to adjust to, but when one member of the community notices the walls are bleeding, it seems the environment, the atmosphere has its own agenda. In โ€˜Blood Tomatoesโ€™ by Sarah Blackshaw, the harvesting and simple act of โ€˜pickingโ€™ this delicious ripe fruit is more akin to a cull. What if these plants were found to be sentient? What if they donโ€™t like to be picked? In โ€˜Leviathanโ€™s Wombโ€™ by Alistair Rey two marine biologists are sent to explore a rare โ€˜whale fallโ€™ far too close to shore. A terrifying discovery is made. In Nathaniel Spainโ€™s โ€˜Meadow Seepโ€™, a couple move into their new home knowing full-well itโ€™s not perfect but no neighbours, a beautiful view and a big house in the countryside, they can make it work, right? Itโ€™s lambing season in Rhianna Jonesโ€™s story, โ€˜The Undrowningโ€™, and Efa Powell is confronted with a horrifying discovery in the lambing shed and the once drowned village is visible once more. In J. Rosina Harlowโ€™s โ€˜Corn Sisterโ€™, Master Sage makes the rules in this small village community and they should be grateful for him. One child is enough, any more and โ€˜sacrificesโ€™ must be made. In Katherine Stansfieldโ€™s tale, โ€˜Recordโ€™, a woman all alone in the world finds a recording from an old broadcast, decides to reach out and record her own, but is there anybody left to hear? In โ€˜Cold Frontโ€™ by Andie Weber โ€˜Theโ€™ place to escape to is New Erebus (if you canโ€™t afford to leave Earth for a prestigious Mars colony). Here people go on immersive tours to imagine what the Arctic must have been like, but one day the Arctic returns of its own accordโ€ฆ

ISBN-13:  978-1-0684437-1-8 | ISSN: 2514-815X


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โ€œThe Ghastling calls itself a โ€˜modern-day penny dreadfulโ€™, but its production values are far higher than that implies.โ€

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