Hinterlands (Black Shuck Books)
A short story collection of horror and weird fictions, about the many deeply strange things we accept as normal. Expect weird shit in offices, corrupted folklore, ghosts, an entirely reasonable cynicism re large bureaucracies, golems, stock photography libraries and the terrible things that happen when we realise some things can’t be properly communicated.
“Hinterlands contains elegant, absorbing stories that create swirling moods of wonder, of melancholy, of regret and delight. These are powerful tales that are well worth the discovery.”
– Aliya Whiteley, award-winning author of The Beauty, The Loosening Skin and many more“There is an irresistible punk vibe here: George Sandison’s stories are as disquieting as they are unflinching. If life is a struggle against reality, these are snapshots from the front lines.”
– Francesco Dimitri, author of The Book of Hidden Things“Hinterlands takes you to places inhabited by predatory tower blocks, offices that move when you’re not paying attention, and strange things that lift their heads in the forgotten aisles of automated warehouses. Weird and unsettling in all the best ways.”
– James Brogden, author of Hekla’s Children, The Hollow Tree and more“A great collection of horror stories, beautifully written. Each one is gritty with realism which makes the ultimate descent into horror all the more shocking – and fun! Highly recommended.
– R.L. Boyle, author of The Book of the Baku
Novels:
Fire in the Sky – Exactly why did that hyper-advanced being fall from the sky and land on us?
“This book starts with a very intense and honest portrayal of a young woman, and then branches out into unexpected directions that can be both funny and brutal. It’s not afraid of big emotions and events, and also of the biggest questions. I love a book that surprises me; I couldn’t guess where Fire in the Sky was going to go, and that made it a genuine surprise of the best kind. It’s deep, involving, and unflinching.”
Aliya Whiteley, Clarke Award-nominated author of The Loosening Skin, The Beauty and The Arrival of Missives
“Part David Almond, part Philip K. Dick, Sandison has woven a taut web of otherwordliness about reality… or is it the other way around? Uncanny, tense, in parts lyrical and heart-rending, in parts brutal, Fire in the Sky feels unique in the fantasy genre. An absorbing, compulsive read with an ending that clung to me like glue.”
Stark Holborn, author of Nunslinger
The Codes We Keep – A proto-cyberpunk riff on Arthurian legend set in Welwyn Garden City
Short stories:
My work can be found in the following places:
- The Mark Lane Society in Lore & Disorder: An anthology of mutated folklore edited by Magda Knight and Rym Kechacha (October 2021)
- Stock Photography Metadata Talking Blues on Sein Und Werden (August 2020)
- Offcuts on UnsungStories.co.uk (July 2020)
- Grandparents, Smiling, £7.95 on Fairlight Books (April 2020)
- The Provenance of Objects in Unthology 11 (July 2019)
- Keel in The Shadow Booth Vol. 2 (June 2018) (and Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading list 2019)
- Blocks in BFS Horizons (Honourable mention for The Best of British Fantasy 2018 and Ellen Datlow’s Recommended Reading list 2019)
- Framing Ilva in issue 8 of The Lonely Crowd
- City Hounds in issue 21 of KZine (May 2018)
- The Digger’s Tale on Unofficial Britain (March 2017)
- Anima in issue E of Shelf Heroes
- Dark City in issue D of Shelf Heroes
- The Road Knows When A Journey is Over in Autumn 2016 issue of Bourbon Penn
- Rain on In Shades (July 2016)
- Mephisto the Unruly on Pornokitsch (November 2015)
- Our Time is Over, P.S. I Love You in the April 2015 issue of Jupiter SF
- KFP in SQ Mag #18
- Epitaph in the March 2014 issue of Perihelion SF
- My Final Flight on the Never Never published on www.fictionontheweb.co.uk
- The New Book of Revelations, I i-iii published in The 100 Worlds anthology by Dreamscape Press.
- The Oldest of the New Gods a 100-word story of mine in Drabblecast 292: Hollow as the World. I also wrote the 100-character twabble in Drabblecast 288: The Bayou Witch
Non-fiction
- On Writing ‘Framing Ilva’, published in The Lonely Crowd
- Aguirre: The wrath of God, published in Shelf Heroes, issue A
- The Bicycle Thieves, published in Shelf Heroes, issue B
- Editor’s Dos and Don’ts, at Thresholds
George Sandison 