Scratching the Surface

by Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly's startling debut collection, featuring tales of dark miracles and terrible wonder, originally published in 2007, is now reissued with a striking new cover and new afterword. In vivid prose, Kelly scratches beneath the surface of the mundane to reveal worlds of beauty and pain, terror and transcendence. "These stories are daerk, yes, yet they shine with the empathy and beauty Kelly has instilled in them. Wonderful stuff!" - Craig Davidson, Author of Rust and Bone.

204 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2007

About the author

Michael Kelly is the Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction, and author of Undertow and Other Laments, and Scratching the Surface; as well as co-author of the novel Ouroboros.

His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including All Hallows, Best New Horror, Black Static, Dark Arts, the Hint Fiction Anthology, PostScripts, Space & Time, Supernatural Tales, Tesseracts 13, and Weird Fiction Review.

Michael is a World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Nominee.