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Roots of My Fears - published 9 Sept 2025
Roots of My Fears - published 9 Sept 2025
I am thrilled that my short story Chalk Bones has been included in a new anthology of horror stories, edited by the brilliant Gemma Amor and published by Titan Books.
"There is a single old tree, on a mound, on a hill, on the land my grandad farms. I know not to play there."
Sarah Deacon’s “Chalk Bones” shocking ending is the ultimate demonstration of the dark power of the roots that bind us all. Grimdark
Sarah Deacon is a writer of novels, short stories and plays, currently living in Somerset.
Sarah’s career began as a theatre director and producer, focusing on new writing and developing young playwrights. Although she started her first novel at fourteen (never completed!), it wasn’t until she left the theatre to work first in conservation and then libraries that Sarah really concentrated on her own writing. Since then she has written four novels and is currently working on a fifth, as well as numerous short stories and the occasional play.
Sarah has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, and was shortlisted for the Janklow & Nesbit Bath Spa Prize for her MA manuscript. She has won short story competitions including the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Competition 2012 and the Alan Somerville Prize. She has also judged short story competitions for the National Trust, Bath & North East Somerset Libraries and Frome Festival.
A small selection of short stories are available to read here.
Novels
Shearwater
Bridie is gone - disappeared one night in an autumn storm. She was as much part of the island as the moors and the bird cliffs and the constant wind, and eight months on, the small island community is still struggling with their loss. Four islanders face their grief as spring turns into summer, finding that a space needed to be made for something new to grow - a little girl, who says she can talk to the shearwaters.
Undertow
Three very different women find the decisions they make are twisted when the hunt for an ancient knife comes crashing through their lives. It is a tale about consequences – those being lived, and those yet to come.
Ghost Story
Two night-long ghost-hunts tap into a dark spirit that is still enacting the horrors of his medial experiments in life, and prove the greatest challenge for spiritualist medium Brian.
Heritage
Amy returns to the village for the funeral of her grandmother to face her own history, and a dark force that is preventing her from leaving again.
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