He is also the author of Literary Walking Tours of Gothic Dublin and, with Gary W.
His collection The Bleeding Horse won the Children of the Night Award in 2008. Showers has written short stories, articles, interviews, and reviews for magazines such as Rue Morgue, Supernatural Tales, Ghosts & Scholars, and Wormwood. These tales of the uncanny grapple with existential epiphanies of the modern day, and when otherwise familiar landscapes become sinister and something decidedly less than certain. These types of short stories were termed "strange tales" by Robert Aickman, called "tales of the unexpected" by Roald Dahl, and known to Shakespeare’s ill-fated Prince Mamillius as ‘winter’s tales’. Uncertainties is an anthology of new writing-featuring contributions from Irish, British, and American authors - each exploring the idea of increasingly fragmented senses of reality.
"We think we know the world we live in, but we don’t - we very much don’t - and stories of the supernatural and strange, of the weird and the uncanny serve as a reminder of that." – from the Foreword by Brian J. "Omnia exeunt in mysterium." - Arthur Machen
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