FORTEAN FICTION: DEAD INKLING

MATT BARTON TALKS TO NATHAN CONNOLLY OF DEAD INK BOOKS ABOUT THE ENDURING APPEAL OF THE UNCANNY

Dead Ink is both an independent Liverpool bookshop and a publisher that looks beyond the mainstream for its strange and uncanny offerings… “I grew up reading Goosebumps, and watching Eerie Indiana,” says Nathan Connolly, managing director of Dead Ink books. Dead Ink recently published Lost in the Garden, by Adam S Leslie; a hauntological novel described by FT’s Bob Fischer in his ‘Haunted Generation’ column as “a nightmarish amble through tangled country lanes, with a melting Fab lolly dripping down your sleeve.” Since Dead Ink was established in 2011, many of their titles have contained themes of interest to readers of Fortean Times; including the original version of recently filmed folk-horror Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley (see FT449:38-43). “I always found something comforting in the horror genre,” Nathan tells…

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