Dark Truth Strange Fiction

Not all stories are invented. Some are inherited. Some are unearthed. And some are whispered straight into the ear of the unwilling listener. In this collection of Tasmanian Gothic tales, Vanessa Amohia Jones ventures into the shadowed territory where truth and fiction blur. These are her darkest stories yet - drawn from personal encounters, from the haunted histories of the land she has lived on, and from tragedies hidden beneath the soil. Some pieces began as research, only to reveal horrors far stranger than anything she could have imagined.
Others are memories she never meant to keep. And a few arrived from the unworld itself, insistent and uninvited. (They call it the sight, but really, it is the Listening - the way certain stories find you whether you want them or not.) Here, abandoned houses are not nostalgic relics but crime scenes of forgotten sorrow. Here, the past is not a gentler time but a darker mirror. And here, the line between what happened and what is imagined dissolves into mist. Dark Truth, Strange Fiction invites you to step into the places where the land remembers, the dead speak softly, and the stories that hurt the most are the ones that refuse to stay buried.