Hot on the heels of Eugen Bacon and Clare Rhoden’s story “Paperweight” being longlisted for the 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards under Best Short Fiction, we have Chuck McKenzie’s “The Dark Man, By Referral”, also from This Fresh Hell, shortlisted in the 2023 Aurealis Awards!
Congratulations on your nomination, Chuck, and thank you for sharing your incredibly creepy and yet weirdly uplifting story of more than one kind of childhood monster!
If you loved this story as much as I did, you might like to read more of Chuck McKenzie’s work – and he’s just released a new short story collection featuring this very tale!
Get yourself a copy of The Dark Man, By Referral and Less Pleasant Tales in ebook and paperback across a range of online booksellers! (While you’re at it, take a look at his hilarious Conversations With My Cat, co-written with his cat, MacReady McKenzie)