The woman in white glided toward the bed, her bare feet making no sound as she floated just inches above the floor. She moved closer—closer still—until she was standing beside the bed, her face hovering above me. I felt the chill radiating from her, the icy breath of death itself. The silence between us stretched on, suffocating in its weight, and I could feel my heart thudding against my chest, so loud it seemed to echo through the room. And then, just as slowly and silently as she had come, the woman in white began to move backward. She did not turn, did not step. She simply glided in reverse, as though time itself had been rewound, the very laws of nature undone.
The woman in white glided toward the bed, her bare feet making no sound as she floated just inches above the floor. She moved closer—closer still—until she was standing beside the bed, her face hovering above me. I felt the chill radiating from her, the icy breath of death itself. The silence between us stretched on, suffocating in its weight, and I could feel my heart thudding against my chest, so loud it seemed to echo through the room. And then, just as slowly and silently as she had come, the woman in white began to move backward. She did not turn, did not step. She simply glided in reverse, as though time itself had been rewound, the very laws of nature undone.
To the West, At the Edge of the World is a dark and captivating collection of stories that blend horror, mystery, and fantasy, weaving together elements of the past and the unknown.
At the heart of this anthology is A Butterfly in the Trenches, a haunting novella set during World War I. Here, a young soldier named Henry discovers an unsettling connection to a magic that offers him fleeting moments of beauty amid the horrors of war. As he grapples with a gift that could either save or destroy him, he must navigate the darkest corners of both the battlefield and his own soul.
From The Reindeer's Rest, where an ancient village tradition unravels the thin veil between life and death, to Grandad, where humour and dark secrets collide on a road trip that takes an unexpected turn, and The Gold, where a man on the edge discovers something terrible and ancient beneath the stones of his home.
This collection is a love letter to the eerie, the magical, and the macabre—a tapestry of stories where beauty and terror exist in equal measure. Each story is a window into a world that might be just out of reach, yet intimately familiar.
“In Occidenta Sita Est, in Ora Mundi”