How to Iron a Shirt and other Weird and Eerie Tales

6 Tales of the weird and eerieIn the shadows of the ordinary, the eerie awaits. What if ironing a shirt unraveled your reality? In this haunting collection of weird and eerie short stories, David Rees-Thomas plunges readers into worlds where the mundane twists into the uncanny. From a husband's desperate denial of his wife's disappearance amid steaming fabrics, to a woman's paranoid visions sparked by gasoline fumes that unlock miraculous, and terrifying, interventions.
An academic grapples with a crumbling mind besieged by impossible desires, while an endless nightmare loop questions the ethics of science and humanity's fragile grip on self. These tales linger on paranoid edges, reconnecting us to our disjointed humanity through dislocation, doubt, and delusion. Set in disconcerting landscapes, from South Wales valleys to apocalyptic routines, they echo Gilles Deleuze's thresholds of becoming, where simple desires fracture into multiplicities.
Perfect for fans of Robert Aickman and Jeff VanderMeer, this speculative fiction gem delivers psychological chills and sideways glances at the human soul. Dive in, if you dare to question what's real.