Short Story Bundle

Short Stories Bundle

Dead Ink has always believed the short story is where the most fearless writing happens. No room to hide, no time to waste. These four collections prove it and between them they've won American Book Awards, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, and landed on NPR and Esquire's best-of lists.

Four collections in one essential bundle for anyone who takes the form seriously.

Animals at Night — Naomi Booth

A woman feeding a baby late at night listens to the animal sounds in the city around her. A grieving widow encounters an injured jellyfish on a deserted beach. A young woman can't shake the image of a dying hare she finds at the side of the road. Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the collection that confirmed Booth as one of contemporary British fiction's most powerful and original voices.

Dead Relatives — Lucie McKnight Hardy

Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The Ladies arrive, she finds that she must appease her dead relatives. Themes of motherhood and the fragile body, family dynamics and small town tensions, unusual traditions and metamorphosis run through thirteen stories that invite you behind closed doors and leave you wondering whether they should have stayed locked.

Mystery Lights — Lena Valencia

An influencer attempts to derail a viral TV marketing campaign with her violent cult following. A marriage between two ghost hunters is threatened when one of them loses her ability to see spirits. Set primarily in deserts throughout the American Southwest, Mystery Lights is a debut collection of stories about women and girls at the crossroads of mundane daily life and existential dread. 

Sinking Bell — Bojan Louis

Winner of a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. An NPR Best Book of 2022. Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. Drawing empathetic portraits of day labourers, metalheads, motel managers and people passing through with the hope of something better somewhere else. Rooted in Diné culture, written with a poet's ear for language.

Four collections. Save £10.

Buy separately and you'd pay £40.96. The bundle brings them together at £30.00.