Channel The Dark
An Anthology of Dark Fiction in Support of Mental Health Awareness & Suicide Prevention
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Temple Dark Books
Published:3rd Jul '26
Should be back in stock very soon

This volume will launch in Roe River Books in Dundalk on July 4th, at which contributors will speak about what their writing means to them in terms of maintaining positive mental health. There will also be a partner event in HMV Dublin. Channel The Dark Vol. 2 will be featured in the Irish Times Speculative Fiction column, written by Declan Burke.
An anthology of dark fiction from Temple Dark Books authors and SFI Members, including Science Fiction action, Fantasy adventure, and Horror. All proceeds for this volume will go to suicide prevention and mental health awareness. Find out more on templedarkbooks.com/channel-the-darkAn anthology of dark fiction from Temple Dark Books authors and SFI Members, including Science Fiction action, Fantasy adventure, and Horror. The book also includes extracts from current and upcoming works from Temple Dark Books authors, such as Ishmael A. Soledad, Ronald A. Geobey, David Smith, and Tom O'Connell. We trust that you will find plenty in this volume to satisfy your taste for darkness, safe in the knowledge that its mission is to accentuate at all times our struggle for the light. All proceeds for this volume will go to the suicide prevention and mental health awareness service, SOSAD (Save our Sons and Daughters), whose passionate and caring staff rely fully on charitable donations and personal and private support. Find out more (and please donate if you can) on sosadireland.ie. Thank you for your support.
Channel the Dark Vol. 2 (Temple Dark Books, €22.99) is a collection of short stories, poetry and novel extracts, edited by Ronald A. Geobey and published in support of SOSAD, the suicide prevention charity. The tone is set by the opening story, David O’Mahony’s ‘Weighed Down’, a Kafaesque tale in which a prisoner languishing in a dungeon belatedly realises the terrible truth behind his imprisonment, but not every contribution is explicitly engaged with issues of mental health. Contributions include the hard sci-fi of Sean Richardson’s ‘Bradshaw’, Luke O’Connor’s Blitz-set and horror-infused ‘Skitter’, and Spencer Sekulin’s ‘Deathless’, a fantasy-epic about an immortal godking; meanwhile, the second half of the collection is comprised of novel extracts from Temple Dark authors such as Ishmael A. Soledad, Tom O’Connell and Geobey himself. It’s an impressive snapshot of new Irish sci-fi / fantasy, with Anthony Brophy’s ‘Lost Ballad of the Plastic Swans’ the highlight, a black comedy that envisages a hapless bunch of English revolutionaries setting out to free their country from the new national entity of UKÉire.
ISBN: 9781068250712
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
288 pages