Everything You Need: Short Stories Read online

I suppose this is partly a reflection on married life, though in my case the relationship is reversed. My wife is the one who knows where the hell everything is. Some of the time.

  Despite the fact it’s rounding off the collection, and is the title story, I’m not sure there’s much I can say about this one. It is what it is. Often, when it comes to my own work, those are the stories I’m happiest with.

  THE DARKENING TREE

  A very short poem. I don’t normally write poems. But I wrote this one.

  This Is Now was originally in Best New Horror 16, Robinson 2005

  Unbelief was originally in Stories, Morrow 2010

  Walking Wounded was originally in Dark Terrors 3, Gollancz, 1997

  The Seventeenth Kind was originally in This Is Now, Earthling Publications 2007

  A Place for Everything was originally in PostScripts 10, WHC and Michael Marshall Smith Special Issue, 2007

  The Last Barbecue was originally in Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback, running Press 2012

  The Stuff That Goes On In Their Heads was originally in Swallowed By The Cracks, Dark Arts Books 2011

  Unnoticed is original to this collection

  The Good listener is original to this collection

  Different Now was originally in Scaremongers, Tanjen 1997

  Author Of The Death is original to this collection

  Sad, Dark Thing was originally in A Book Of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books 2011

  What Happens When You Wake Up In The Night was originally published as a chapbook from Nightjar Press 2009

  The Things He Said was originally in Travellers In Darkness, the souvenir book of the 2007 World horror convention

  Substitutions was originally in Black Wings, PS Publishing 2010

  The Woodcutter is original to this collection

  Everything You Need is original to this collection

  The Gist was originally published as a chapbook by Subterranean Press, 2013

  The Darkening Tree originally appeared to accompany the image used on the jacket of this ebook, on Instagram, 2014

  Story Notes is original to this collection