Daniel Braum's Creatures of Liminal Space explores the spaces in between places and the strange, weird, and numinous encounters you might have there. In this collection, you will find three short story length selections of Braum’s hallmark strange tales (including one original to this book), interspersed among twelve dark and wondrous flash fiction length selections. Braum and illustrator Dan Sauer invite you to traverse these labyrinths of the liminal, and join them on a phantasmagoric journey replete with dark and ethereal denizens haunting exotic borderlands far-flung and shadowy corners just next door.
Discover the heartbreaking secrets of a Loch Ness Monster sighted in the lush jungles of Central America.
Learn who or what the enigmatic Jaguar King is protecting with the wild cats of a remote swath of tropical forest.
Traverse patterns of love and loss and time—and learn if our friendships and truths, like constellations of stars, are real or perceived.
Ghosts. Hauntings. Monsters. Creatures. Cryptids. Fear. Darkness. Loss. Wonder. Heartbreak. Mystery. The Strange. The Uncanny. The Liminal. The Interstitial. Labyrinths of time. Love and Desire. The edges of civilization. Longings for the lost.
Braum’s intentionally ambiguous stories are akin to those you might find in the original Twilight Zone show, and will delight readers of Ray Bradbury, Lucius Shepard, Robert Aickman, and Tanith Lee.
“Emotionally complex, character-driven stories of wanderers, people far from home and far from comfortable in their own skin. Not since Lucius Shepard has a North American fantasist written so deftly about Central America. Braum’s superb stories are well worth the read.” —BRIAN EVENSON, Author of Good Night, Sleep Tight and Song for the Unraveling of the World
DANIEL BRAUM writes short stories that explore the tension between the psychological and the supernatural. His debut short story collection The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales (2016) was re-released in 2023 in a new edition from Cemetery Dance Publications with a cover by Dan Sauer. He intentionally adopts the term "strange tales" for his stories in homage to author Robert Aickman and the intentional ambiguities of his work.His short fiction can be found in his collections Underworld Dreams (2020) from Lethe Press, the illustrated chapbook Yeti Tiger Dragon (2016) from Dim Shores, and The Wish Mechanics (2017) from Independent Legions. His collection Phantom Constellations is forthcoming from Cemetery Dance Publications in Fall 2025. His stories have also appeared in places ranging from the The Best Horror of the Year Volume 12 edited by Ellen Datlow and Shivers 8 edited by Richard Chizmar to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and many anthologies. Braum first worked with Dan Sauer in the pages of The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy.His novella The Serpent's Shadow was released in trade paperback by Cemetery Dance in Fall 2023. His novel Servant of the Eighth Wind is forthcoming from Lethe Press. He is the host of the New York Ghost Story Festival and the Night Time Logic reading series.Find him at bloodandstardust.wordpress.com
DAN SAUER is a graphic designer and artist living in Oregon. In 2016, he co-founded (with editor/publisher Obadiah Baird) The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy, which features his design and illustration work. Since 2017, he has worked extensively on book covers, interior art and custom lettering for Hippocampus Press, Centipede Press, and other publishers. His art often takes the form of surreal collage and photomontage, as pioneered by artists such as Max Ernst, Wilfried Sätty, Harry O. Morris and J. K. Potter.
