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"Somnambulant Hearts" is my thirteenth collection of short fiction which was published in June 2026 by Black Shuck Books.
The contents are as follows:
Something To Believe In
The Redeemers
Blanche
All That Dead Beauty
My Somnambulant Heart
Sundowning
Caboose
Where Do Broken Dreams Go?
The Enfilade
Some Pastel Morning
Keepers
The Natural Environment
The Malaise Trap
Throttle Body
Water In The Wrong Light
Inversion Layer
An Absence Of Ghost
The back cover blurb is as follows:
The seventeen stories in Somnambulant Hearts reflect those liminal spaces of the ‘in-between’ where reality playfully shifts between expectation and understanding. Embodying elements of the uncanny, psychogeography, and slipstream, these speculative stories exist within the interstices of genre, on the borderline where lives encounter a twist of the disconnect and are never the same again; a space in which existence is a construct created by ourselves, yet so easily undone when it is inhabited by others.
“Andrew Hook’s slipstream Somnambulant Hearts is as deeply unsettling as it is darkly compelling. Each innocuous story untethers a mundane human condition and subtly distorts it, unmooring it from reality into an escalating aura of unreality. The collection perfectly enmeshes the texture, specificity, and lethal eeriness of Hook’s writing.”
—Eugen Bacon
“Andrew Hook’s Somnambulant Hearts is a collection of quietly devastating precision, in which ordinary men are undone by guilt, obsession, and the uncanny weight of their own pasts – sleepwalking through lives of their own making until something forces them, brutally, awake.”
—Mike O’Driscoll
Andrew Hook’s stranglehold on the weird tale tightens its grip. Delivered in a cool, calm, almost too reasonable a bedside manner, each story here vibrates with enigma and foreboding.
—Ashley Stokes
The book can be purchased here.
