Description:
Deep in the Weeds They Wait
Behind graffitied fences or obscured by woods, the abandoned mills of New England watch...for thrillists and historians, urbexers and developers, or just the average passer-by. Omnipresent and looming, the mills lure the innocent to their mysteries, secrets...and terrors.
The We are Providence writers hunt what lurks among the crumbled bricks and strangling sumac. A widower on a demolition crew wakes the revenants. A musician rents a foundry's rehearsal space...and otherworldly tenants practice on him. A lonely girl combs the ruins to find an unsettling friend. A bitter punk moves into a refinery where her best friend vanishes. A criminal breaks into a cloth factory to discover a sentient-and sinister-machine.
These sixteen terrifying tales and two poems suggest when abandoned mills beckon, it's best to ignore them.
After all, they've come to collect their due.
Brief description: - L. E. DANIELS is a Bram Stoker Award(R) nominee for short fiction and an American author, poet, and editor living in Australia. Her novel, Serpent's Wake: A Tale for the Bitten (Interactive Publications) is a Notable Work with the HWA's Mental Health Initiative. Lauren co-edited Aiki Flinthart's Relics, Wrecks and Ruins (Cat Press) with Geneve Flynn, winning the 2021 Aurealis Award and with Christa Carmen co-edited We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State (Weird House Press), a 2022 Aurealis finalist. Recent publications include "Silk" in Hush, Don't Wake the Monster (Twisted Wing Productions) and "Hangman's Coming" in Where the Silent Ones Watch (Hippocampus Press). Lauren's personal essays appear in Holistic Horror, Quick Bites, and 34 Orchard. Her recent poetry is published in The Cozy Cosmic (Underland Press), Under Her Eye, and Mother Knows Best (Black Spot Books), with "Night Terrors" (HWA) a finalist for the 2022 Australian Shadows Award. Lauren runs Brisbane Writers Workshop.