Short Stories

An Egyptian mummy is cursed to remain a tourist attraction for all eternity. Trapped in a dusty tomb, he waits in silence while the world keeps looking. He makes humorous, unsuccessful attempts to understand the modern world simply by observing the endless parade of visitors to his crypt.

A deranged and centuries dead Jesuit priest campaigns for a return to the Julian Calendar.

When she digs up the brother she murdered twenty years ago, Antonia Severan discovers that the dead aren't always as lifeless as they should be.

An utterly clueless vampire tries to scrape a living on the streets of Hong Kong.

A small cultural disconnect results in a hapless groom missing his own wedding.

Mandy Moran is a failed novelist scraping a living (and funding her drug addiction) by writing creative suicide notes for others.

High on drugs Toby catches the last MTR train of the night, not yet grasping the fact that he's dead. The train takes him to the end of the line, conveniently located under Pok Fu Lam cemetery.

A bank robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in a trail of corpses and millions of dollars being scattered across San Francisco.

Anechoic chambers are the quietest places on Earth, so quiet that decibels are negative. Desperate to secure tenure through her research, Associate Professor Veronica Lee abducts a stranger and locks him in the chamber to observe his slide into insanity.

For Marcus, it’s hard being dead. Struggling with technology, placating the neighbour’s schnauzer and trying to get a date. He’s trying but none of these things are easy.

Having reaped the benefits of a Faustian bargain, Toby confronts the succubus who seduced him into the deal and the reality of what he faces in the next life.

Over drinks in a grotty SOHO bar, a vampire pours her heart out to her next meal – lamenting her inability to find love, or get a tattoo. The latter being more important. First published in the HKWC Hong Kong Gothic Anthology.