Tenebris Books: 6 books

‘At the order to fire, they fired. Real bullets, it would seem. The politicians crumpled, twitched, and sagged to the ground, in a manner familiar to devotees of leftwing arthouse movies. Then the eyes of the squad turned towards me.’ After the plague, most of us are dead, and some of the...

Leonard wants to bequeath his tattooed skin to the National Gallery of Australia. He has been almost completely inked by one of Australia's best contemporary artists, but he is a canvas that nobody wants. Then, strange things start happening to Leonard: Darwin’s moth—a tattoo from his calf—flutters...

She is the nectar of the poet, the Green Muse. She steals the souls of those who love, turns their lives to despair and feeds her own. She is where love goes when it is destroyed and only hate shall remain. Her name is Green Fairy, and she lives in the absinthe.At the centre of several intertwined...

We first met nomadic puppeteer Billie in Dollywagglers. Now, in a lawless, post-pandemic world, Billie is learning to be human again – a task easily as challenging as scrounging for food and fighting off suburban savages. In Dancing on Bones, Billie’s band of three unlikely friends heads to Wales...

“Some battles bleed so much, and for so long, that the earth never truly forgets their dead. Some battles are born of oppression, and some of greed, and some simply because it was written in the stars.”Three sisters—Charlemagne, Cairo and Pendragon Agonistes—are sent from America to...

Dr Dorothy Broadhurst is a biologist living in 1950s Central Africa to study the local ape population. When civil war erupts and the rest of her team flees, she's left alone in the jungle. Dorothy may think she understands the apes she has studied for so long, but she could never have predicted what they are about to do . . . "Strange Creation" is a short story.