Root Rot & Other Grim Tales

Walk into the woods. Dive into the water. Make a wish. Meet your fate. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sarah Read returns with a new collection of cautions and disturbances across 18 grim tales. Prepare to inherit stories of fossil-haunted houses, of doorways to the afterlife.

In the woods, learn of vengeful wolves and women. In the water, discover shipwrecks stuck in time. Find Devonian monsters and islands where your father loved to fish--and where your future hangs in the balance.

Sarah Read's stories can be found in various places, including Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year vols 10 and 12. Her first collection OUT OF WATER is available from Trepidatio Publishing, as is her debut novel THE BONE WEAVER'S ORCHARD, both nominated for the Bram Stoker, This is Horror, and Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards. ORCHARD won the Stoker and the This Is Horror Award, and is available in Spanish as EL JARDIN DEL TALLADOR DE HUESOS, published by Dilatando Mentes, where it was nominated for the Guillermo de Baskerville Award. Her second collection, ROOT ROT & OTHER GRIM TALES is available through Bad Hand Books. Her second novel, The ATROPINE TREE, was released from Bad Hand Books in 2024.