Hollow Shores
Hollow Shores by Gary Budden is a new edition published by Dead Ink in 2020, featuring 214 pages in English. This debut collection intertwines elements of weird fiction and landscape writing, presenting an interlinked set of stories that explore the emotional geographies of various locations, including London, Kent, and Finland, as well as a fictional place known as the Hollow Shore.
Readers will encounter a unique blend of horror and ecstasy found in everyday life, as the narratives delve into environments where decay and transformation are prevalent. The Hollow Shore serves as a backdrop where flowers disrupt railway tracks and relationships deteriorate, embodying a retreating England. Through these stories, Budden examines the interplay between the mundane and the monstrous, inviting readers to reflect on the landscapes of both the physical world and the mind.
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A new re-issue of Gary Budden‘s debut collection blends the traditions of weird fiction and landscape writing in an interlinked set of stories from the emotional geographies of London, Kent, Finland and a place known as the Hollow Shore.
The Hollow Shore is both fictional and real. It is a place where flowers undermine railway tracks, relationships decay and monsters lurk. It is
the shoreline of a receeding, retreating England. This is where things fall apart, waste away and fade from memory.
Finding horror and ecstasy in the mundane, Hollow Shores follows characters on the cusp of change in broken-down environments and the landscapes of the mind.
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