Please note that this title is currently out of stock but is available for pre-order. While we don’t have an exact publishing date yet, it is expected to be available within approximately 4 to 6 weeks.
£9.50
“A hauntingly elegant ghost story—Falling Story blends folk horror with a moving meditation on memory, loss, and the shadows of youth.” —James Baxter, author of Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction
“Unsettling, unforgettable and unputdownable. A hauntingly brilliant ghost story and folk horror novel.” – The Book Club
“Beautifully crafted. Wholly disturbing. You can’t really begin to fathom the bottomless terror of falling until you have read Falling Story.” – Writers Forum.
When AJ begins to dream of falling, he is drawn back to his youth and the enigmatic Joetta Thomson—an intelligent but troubled young woman marked by a secret inheritance: the ability to see ghosts.
What begins as an intimate portrait of friendship becomes a dark descent into folklore and ritual, as Jo, compelled by the discovery of her family’s grimoire, edges ever closer to a fate entwined with the restless spirits of Prestbury. From ruined priory to windswept hill, the novel traces the thin line between the living and the dead, and the fragile boundary between salvation and surrender.
In the tradition of M.R. James yet refracted through the unsettling modernism of Mark Danielewski and Paul Auster, Falling Story combines the gothic atmosphere of folk horror with a lyrical exploration of loss and the persistence of the past. Both ghost story and elegy, it is a work that lingers like an afterimage—unsettling, elegiac, and impossible to forget
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