William Browning Spencer Books in Order

Hospital orderly and aspiring artist David Livingston becomes obsessed with Anna Shockley after she arrives following an overdose. Moving into her communal home draws him into her unstable life and the dangerous people attracted to her.

These stories combine macabre situations with dark humour, following people whose ordinary lives take disturbing turns. A wedding photographer intervenes when a groom fails to appear, while a middle-aged man's return home uncovers a haunting past.

Philip Kenan moves through dead-end jobs while struggling with monsters that seem to follow him from Lovecraft's fiction. When his estranged girlfriend faces danger, he must navigate the corporate world and its potentially very real horrors.

Grieving children's author Harry Gainesborough retreats from the world after his daughter's death. An escaped psychiatric patient who idolises his book insists its characters are real, and increasingly strange events make Harry question where imagination ends.

Back in detox, professor Jack Lowry falls for fellow patient Kerry Beckett. Her disappearance draws him toward a rival recovery cult whose leader treats alcoholism as an alien curse, forcing Jack and his companions into a monstrous rescue mission.

Spencer's stories explore people confronting unsettling changes in familiar worlds, from a seaside resort's mysterious visitors to a writer's disturbing wilderness observations. The collection mixes horror, fantasy, and humour with reflections on love, chance, and storytelling.