If you love short dark fiction with genuine depth, put Islington Crocodiles at the top of your list. Its third print-run is sold out so finding a copy might be difficult, however, I assure you it will be worth acquiring.

Over the course of the ten stories in the book, we’re introduced to a world where creation itself is on the verge of destruction. The heroes and villains battle each other both in the real world and in the (even more real) world of dreams.

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This is a strong, solid collection of stories (I’ve seen it referred to as a ‘mosaic’ novel, which makes sense as all of the stories, in one way or another, are linked) that flits between contemporary realism and fantasy (not my favourite genre, I have to confess), to create the ‘fractured realism’ that Graham Joyce mentions in his foreword. It’s very well written - most of it will make you think, some of it will make you wince and a surprisingly high number of lines will make you want to laugh More...

The premise of Paul Meloy's first book, a mosaic novel of interlocking stories, is simple: There are creatures that feed on human despair. There are those amongst us who would stop them.

So are the battle lines drawn

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