Derelictions are horror stories told in ways you may not have encountered before.
Something is missing from the silent places and worlds inside these stories. Something has been removed, taken flight, or been destroyed. Us.
Derelictions are weird tales that tell of aftermaths and of new and liminal places. Each location has witnessed catastrophe, infernal visitations, or unearthly transformations. But across these landscapes of murder, genocide and invasion, crucial evidence remains. And it is the task of the reader to sift through ruin and ponder the residual enigma, to behold and wonder at the full horror that was visited upon mankind.
Wyrd’ contains seven derelictions, original tales of mystery and horror from the author of Hasty for the Dark and Some Will Not Sleep (winner of The British Fantasy Award for Best Collection).
Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
Imprint: Small US Publisher
Publication date: 26/10/2020
Wyrd and Other Derelictions
By Adam Nevill
Review by Liam
A freighter, fully painted white aside from its railings, powers through a sea storm to deliver unknown cargo - yet there is not a soul alive on board.
A hill surrounded by campfires sits abandoned to a grizzly scene.
A house, derelict, holds a scene of sudden tragedy.
What at first seems to be a disjointed anthology of odd post-human scenes gradually reveals an unsettling, overarching cause of the emptiness of these worlds. The tales contained within are myriad in their approach, and bleak in their description, but draw you into this mystery all the same. Nevill presents a novel style and a uniquely veiled intent in this work, focussing heavily on what can be observed or deduced from these scenes, and the implications for mankind's inherent shortcomings when faced with something so overpoweringly unknowable.
5/5
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