Sheltering from an air raid in an empty underground station, a young woman encounters a strangely out-of-place vessel passing along the platform…

A librarian cataloguing the manuscripts of a recently deceased horror writer notices one particular box, relating to his most mystical work, has disappeared…

A young academic takes up residency in the former home of an obscure Belgian poet in order to better understand the strange rumours surrounding his demise…

Sean O’Brien’s stories are all lit with the unmistakable hue of the Victorian gothic: from the rantings of a deranged psychiatric patient, to the apparition of demons swarming into a remote, rural railway station.