“There’s no point giving a shit, you know. About anything. Ever.”

“You keep believing that.”

“I will.”

Andrew Humphrey follows up his acclaimed first collection, “Open The Box”, with another twelve stories of loss and abandonment, fear and greed. Moving through the genres of urban horror, science fiction, crime and slipstream, Humphrey examines the effects of the fantastic upon the personal, whether through future dystopias, a missing child, climatic change, or repeated infidelity. His characters live in edgy realities and shifting fantasies, their existence tied to the inevitability of fate: something they struggle against as much as they embrace.

The book features an introduction by Eric Brown.

Praise for “Open The Box”:

Everyone's trying to escape their fate in some way - maybe through an affair or a drug deal or just another pint of lager. This is an often gripping debut collection – The Third Alternative

An impressive first collection – Ellen Datlow, Co-Editor of Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

Unclassifiable, and often quite brilliant – Eric Brown, Infinity Plus

An astonishingly good writer – Mystery Scene

 

 

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