Eight fantastic tales. An actor is haunted by the ghost of girlfriend past; England is menaced by polite zombies; a sad housewife is possessed by a cute alien; an alcoholic cleans his world up; a dog speaks; one man refuses to be born and never leaves the womb; and another cannot die and haunts his former life.

These eight stories are from Pantomime, an anthology of interconnected novellas, comics, short stories and flash fiction. A contemporary mythic cycle, a Decamaron for our fractured world, a Canterbury Tales for our times, Pantomime presents 52 fantastic tales in a medley of styles and genres that cover the breadth of human experience at the end of civilisation and explore the depth of human nature beneath it.

Unlike these eight tales — an ePub sampler — Pantomime is hard copy only.

The Stories

1. Me and Mr Blakus
A good boy tells the story of his angry, bigoted owner.

2. Everything is Whispering
A woman lends her body to an alien for three strange days.

3. Hackney Exorcism
A man seeks help to rid himself of the ghost of girlfriends past.

4. More and More of Nothing at All
Polite zombies take over Cambridge.

5. Enwombed: The Man Who Refused to be Born
A man lives his life in a high-tech womb.

6. Merge
A young man begins to suspect he is trapped in a malevolent alternate reality.

7. Year of the Rat
A dying alcoholic decides to clean up his street.

8. Ghosted
The story of a dead man, wandering around his former life.