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"At this point, I've been a parent for half my adult life, and there's nothing more scary than the idea of losing your children. This story started with a simple question: what would I do if my son suddenly vanished? How would I process that overwhelming desire to get him back - and would that desire leave me open to believing something that no sane person should believe?
I also wanted to ground it firmly in reality, so many of the places within these pages are real. I know the road where the main action takes place (although it has a different name); I grew up on these streets.
As you'll see, the result is an odd mix of missing person crime narrative and Satanic horror, with some time slips and a little portal fantasy along the way. But at its heart, Where Once He Stood remains a modern suburban folk tale about disappearing houses and lost children - and the leap of faith that is sometimes required to bring them home."Dan CoxonDan Coxon
Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards (six times), with Writing the Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction 2022. His anthology Being Dad won a Saboteur Award in 2016. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Shakespeare Unleashed, Beyond the Veil, Fiends in the Furrows III, and Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana. He runs a proofreading and editing service, working with both publishers and private clients.
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