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Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories

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A beach that wipes people from memory. Aliens that just want to help humanity along a little bit. Monsters who love their fight club. A woman who trades a piece of her future to help a child. Guilt that serves as a door to dark visions... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Matt Tighe's Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories is a collection of the bitter sweet, the darkly comedic, and the disturbingly confronting.

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A beach that wipes people from memory.

Aliens that just want to help humanity along a little bit.

Monsters who love their fight club.

A woman who trades a piece of her future to help a child.

Guilt that serves as a door to dark visions for a young boy.

Matt Tighe's Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories is a collection of the bittersweet, the darkly comedic, and the disturbingly confronting. Including multi-award-winning and nominated tales as well as originals, the characters within will scare you, hurt you, and raise you up for the truest of reasonsβ€”they are you.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781923382183

Publisher: IFWG Publishing Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 October 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: IFWG Publishing Australia

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Matt Tighe is a speculative fiction writer of horror, sci-fi and fantasy, probably in that order. He is an Australian Shadows Award winner, the recipient of the New England Writers' Centre 2023 Varuna-NEWC Fellowship, and a repeat finalist for the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards. He lives on a small farm in New South Wales with his amazing children, his patient spouse, and too many animals. He is also a professor of environmental science who works on pollution and environmental conservation.

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