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Thirty-Nine Left

A disappearance, a drowning and a town that has learned to leave the wrong spaces empty. Something begins counting back whenever it is noticed.

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Three independent works by Elias H. Markwath. Retailer availability and formats vary by location.

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Psychological thriller

The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky

Owen Lark is losing words, time and his grip on what his family can trust.

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Speculative collection

What Remains of Us

Nineteen and a half surviving accounts from a future that has learned to remove suffering.

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The Thirty-Nine Cycle

Small physical impossibilities, rule-bound dread and the danger of being witnessed.

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The Ordinary Impossible

Begin with The Tenth Marble. An intelligence learns through consequence.

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Refusal Matter

Begin with What Stops Remains, where matter first refuses the laws imposed upon it.

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Veyrhold

Begin with The Unwritten Strain: bodily memory and a hidden history.

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The Houses That Listen

Begin with Come Back Quiet. The house remembers who returned.

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The author

Elias H. Markwath

Australian writer Elias H. Markwath creates psychological horror and dark speculative fiction built around impossible systems, human consequences and the single wrong detail that makes ordinary life collapse.

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