A Precarious Night

By Stanley Nesbitt

There's a knock in the walls, a chant in the church hall, and something older than mercy stirring beneath the floorboards. In A Precarious Night, Stanley J. Nesbitt delivers twelve dark stories where folklore curdles into horror and small mercies come with teeth.
From the cult-haunted "The Deep Mother's Mask," where a town's "celebrations" hide flesh-debt to an earth goddess, to "The Itching," a morgue-night autopsy that blooms into a body-horror infestation, these tales find dread in ritual, grief, and the fragile seams of the human mind.
You'll meet a weary pastor facing a child-shaped calamity in "The Cheshire Nightmare," a frontier family stalked by a clock that grows from the soil in "The House of Jefferson County," and winged enforcers hunting a drake-king across a burning city in "The Fallen City."
Across forests, battlefields, and backrooms, Nesbitt marries mythic awe to visceral consequence-the green world gives, and it takes. Fans of folk horror, weird fiction, and dark fantasy will feel right at home-and deeply unsettled-here. (Author: Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Q3 2025.)
Stories include: The Deep Mother's Mask; The Itching; The Cheshire Nightmare; The Sow of Donegal; Disassociated; The Family Staff; The Fall; The Fallen City; The House of Jefferson County; Judgment Day; Red Waters; A Man's Best Friend.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1795841281
• ISBN13: 9781795841283
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"