The Swan River Press

"There are many ways to tell a story . . . It is a question of choosing the right one." – Sparks from the Fire

In this volume, Jim Rockhill goes beyond such classics as “Green Tea” and “Schalken the Painter” by examining the manifold avenues of terror offered throughout the work of Ireland’s master of supernatural terror.

Uncertainties is an anthology of new writing — featuring contributions from Irish, British, and American authors — each exploring the idea of increasingly fragmented senses of reality. These types of short stories were termed "strange tales" by Robert Aickman, called "tales of the unexpected" by Roald Dahl, and known to Shakespeare’s ill-fated Prince Mamillius as 'winter's tales'. But these are no mere ghost stories. These tales of the uncanny grapple with existential epiphanies of the modern day, and when otherwise familiar landscapes become sinister and something decidedly less than certain . . .

Published in September 1935, just two months after his death, A.E wrote of Selected Poems, “If I should be remembered I would like it to be for the verses in this book.