Mayhem & Death

In the anticipated follow-up collection to 2015’s award-winning On the Edges of Vision, Helen McClory returns delving deeper into descriptively mythical yet recognisable stories woven from dark & light, human fear and fortune.

Swimming & suffering. Spikes loom ever-threatening. A weight against the throat. Sea where the dead lie pressed into a layer of silt. A silent documentary through a terrible place. Mary Somerville, future Queen of Science. A coven of two. A polar companion.


Mayhem & Death is the matured, darker companion to On the Edges of Vision & shows McClory’s ever expanding ability to envelop and entrance her readers with lyrical language of lore, stunning settings & curious characters. It includes woodcut-style illustrations to accompany each short story.

Mayhem & Death also introduces the brand new novella Powdered Milk, a tale for the lost.