The hinterlands of paranormal websites lead two investigators to an oppressive landscape haunted by legend and rumour.  As well as having all the elements of a classic tale of terror, ‘Dimmer’ has the oppressive ink-black thread of the best modern British folk horror running through it. Stokes builds a sense of dread with impeccable timing and chill-laden scene setting worthy of Robert Aickman or Andrew Michael Hurley.

- David Frankel

Ashley Stokes’ strange new tale drags wyrd England into the half light. The narrator's insistent reproaches to her partner give his story a dislocated atmosphere: something bad is happening, or will happen soon if he fails to heed her. Stokes vindicates the belief that festers in the blood: that there are places that still carry the curse of what happened there. Read with the lights on.

- Aiden O'Reilly

26pp

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