Susan Earlam

Dark Is The Water Susan Earlam

A ritual in a small community, a liquid metamorphosis, the patterns of a strange upbringing, a hunting ground at the end of a runway.




The everyday spaces of cricket grounds and train stations become places where inhabitants unravel into themselves. Dark Is The Water is filled with tales of the wyrd and uncanny and will make you question what it is to live on the edges of this and other worlds.




Drawing on the feminist horror influences of Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter and Julia Armfield this collection unveils Susan Earlam's obsession with bodies and their potential for metamorphosis.




"A perfectly unsettling collection that filled me with awe and unease in equal measure" Gaynor Jones, Author of Among These Animals