Reposted from my authors page: Any other reviewers interested in a PDF or digital copy of Unknown Causes should email me at the address contained within the body of the below message below. Many thanks, Frank My latest collection Unknown Causes is out from Gallows Press this week. Reviewers wishing to obtain a digital/PDF copy should contact me here, or at [email protected] The collection has garnered some kind words from some very nice authors/reviewers: Frank Duffy approaches the dark night of human existence from oblique angles and with a craftsmanship akin to Thomas Ligotti and the late, great Joel Lane. Unknown Causes opens a portal into a fog-shrouded universe of industrial wastelands, ghoulish revenants, and haunted hearts. An excellent addition to the weird fiction canon. Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All UNKNOWN CAUSES is a superb showcase of the storytelling talents of a unique voice in contemporary dark fiction. Subtle, elegant and evocative and profoundly disturbing, Duffys writing explores the themes of guilt, grief, and loss, and tears down the boundaries that separate the past from the present, the living from the dead, and this world from the ones beyond. A masterclass in psychological terror and quiet horror. Adrian Chamberlin, author of The Caretakers and Shadrach Besieged. Podcast: Dark Mutterings. Unknown Causes takes delight in showing us that the ghosts of the past are more frightening than any monster. The terror of our own memories creates more disturbance than can be inflicted upon our psyche. Frank Duffy leads us through the slow creep of the past haunting the present, if not future, of the unfortunates caught in its web. Jim Lesniak - Reviewer, Morpheus Tales. Frank Duffy’s wonderful new collection UNKNOWN CAUSES depicts neurotic, emotionally-damaged protagonists struggling to make sense of a world that is only marginally off-kilter to our own. In his tales nothing is certain; everything, and everyone,appears distrustful and unreliable. Duffy’s unique brand of horror is subtle and chilling, skilfully laced with grotesque imagery and unsettling turns of phrase. More often than not his stories build to startling revelations, stripping the souls of his characters bare to leave them languishing in hells of their own making. Paul Edwards, author of Black Mirrors and Now That Ive Lost You. It’s not the great plots and fascinating characters that I love best about Frank Duffy’s insanely creepy stories, it’s his beautiful, evocative prose, the kind that make others writers jealous. Julia Madeleine, author of No One To Hear You Scream. Unknown Causes will take you to some very dark places – and sometimes you won’t even know how you got there. Reality has never felt as fragile as it does in these eighteen stories and Frank Duffy’s elegant prose creates a palpable sense of unease. The tales which unfold here do precisely what good horror writing should – unnerve and unsettle the reader. Anthony Watson, co-founder and co-editor at Dark Minds Press
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