What the Dark Keeps

Six stories. Six thresholds. Some doors should stay closed.A hospice nurse begins to notice a patient visitor who always arrives before death does. A secondhand baby monitor carries voices from a room where no child is crying. A scarecrow moves closer to the house each night. A roadside motel fills with rooms from the worst moments of a traveler’s life. A nameless stage role starts changing the actor brave enough to play it. And when the sea retreats too far from shore, the drowned come walking home.In these six unsettling tales, Joshua Willis explores grief, memory, dread, and the quiet moment when the ordinary world opens just wide enough for something ancient and patient to step through.Elegant, eerie, and impossible to shake, WHAT THE DARK KEEPS is a collection of literary horror about the things waiting just beyond the threshold. Read more