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Author · Storyteller
Henry Shaw
@henryshaw
Horror writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Henry Shaw writes across horror and supernatural, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Henry Shaw
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Later first draft
The House on Rook Lane
When a widowed surveyor is sent to assess a row of condemned houses on a Coventry back street, she finds one property that should have been empty for years but still keeps a careful, domestic routine. The house appears to know the names of people who vanished from the neighbourhood, and it starts offering back the small things they left behind. Each return comes with a price, and the street itself begins to remember what was buried there.
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