Insidious Mechanisms: Tales of Cursed Clockwork & Cyclical Anomalies

Presenting fifteen previously unpublished short stories, set against the ticks and whirs of unfathomable devices, synchronised, in apparent mockery of the true cycles of nature and human desire. Herein are dark tales of clocks and music boxes, penny arcades and automata, tales in which the lines between the intricacies of the organic and the inorganic become very often blurred.

With each piece written especially for this project, the book brings together a rare collection of work by some of the finest authors of strange fiction around today.

The full table of contents is as follows:

The Pößalu Clock by David Yates
The Ingrained Incident by Charles Wilkinson
The Clockwork Man by Alison Littlewood
The Mnemosyne by Chris Kelso
Evenfall by John Gale
The Arcades by R. Ostermeier
Iamb by Rose Biggin
The Silver Buckle Clocks of Coombe Viney by Colin Insole
Soul of Things by George Berguño
Sympathique by Tim Major
Seven Clocks and a Music Box by Mark Valentine
A Bright But Haunted Age by Mat Joiner
Another Nature by D. P. Watt
The Watchdog of Time by Charles Schneider
The Final Healer by Maria Barnes