Curtis Ackie: 3 books

Curtis Ackie is a young British-born novelist, short story writer and sometime poet, based in Zagreb, Croatia. His fiction is primarily concerned with the magic of dreams as escapism. Dark Matter is his captivating collection of spellbound poetry.

A perturbed bachelor is beleaguered by his misbehaving shadow; a reclusive alchemist builds a machine to right his wife’s disfigurement; the sun forgets to rise over a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere. Equal parts haunting and outlandish, Goldfish Tears is an enchanting collection of short stories...

First Clare, then Annabelle, followed by Bojana; the women in Eilian's life are swiftly abandoning him, and all in peculiar circumstances. Plagued by Dawn’s domineering devotion, he tries his best to free himself from the malevolent clutches of a dream which is not his own. Steeped in his own brand...