Eibonvale Press, 2023. The author's third short story collection. Digital edition. Cover artwork by Avery Daisy Book Design, based on first edition artwork by David Rix. 31 stories. 378 pages. "A master of his craft…Another highly, highly, highly recommended book that should be on the shelves of anyone who reads modern dark fiction/weird/strange tales; it's also a lesson for aspiring writers as to how it should be done. I seriously don't know what can possibly top this book over the next eleven months…In Blacker Against the Deep Dark, Zelenyj takes contemporary concerns, anxieties and worldly ills to their absolute edge, and then goes even further.” - Oddly Weird Fiction "The best and most captivating short story collection of the year, Alexander Zelenyj's Blacker Against the Deep Dark is an outstanding achievement in literary strange fiction. A bold and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition, it offers readers an incredibly original feast of beautiful storytelling, haunting darkness and seducing strangeness. If you're a devoted reader of literary speculative fiction and love dark stories, you simply can't afford to miss this collection. Very highly recommended!" - Rising Shadow “Why are you here? You are here because you describe things within your pages that need confronting…This book is a sheer experience…And, sincerely, a book by a writer to add to the inner canon of fiction writers I watch. A book that can be defined as being pre- or post-Discovery.” - Des Lewis, author of Nemonymous Night and Weirdmonger, inventor of gestalt real-time reviewing since 2008 “Superb genre-defying anthology threaded with a deep sense of melancholy. If you read fifty single author anthologies in 2019 you’re unlikely to come across any as varied and as difficult to classify as Blacker Against the Deep Dark...Simply put there is a massive range of high-quality stories on offer in Blacker Against the Deep Dark and you’ll truly be spoilt for choice if you enjoy weird fiction beyond the boundaries of traditional horror…Experimental, off-the-wall, trippy, melancholic, bizarre and unique are all ways of describing Alexander Zelenyj’s mammoth anthology.” - Tony Jones, The Ginger Nuts of Horror Contents: ● Blacker Against the Deep Dark ● Highway of Lost Women ● The Priests ● We Are All Lightless Inside ● The Ocean Closes at Midnight ● Loneliness the Hunter ● Kingdoms ● Angels, and the Daggers of Darkness ● Journey to the End of a Burning Girl ● The Black-Winged and Burning ● The Bloodmilk People ● From Parts Unknown ● The Terror of Broken Places ● Moondogs ● We Will Meet when the Sky Turns Darkest ● Kill Them and Kill Them (and Pray for Something Good) ● The Flies will be Here Soon ● "Hush Honey, and Give Daddy Back His War Hammer" ● Christ on the Sun ● The Sky was a Window All Along ● The Children Who Saw the Universe ● Where Wickedness Walks ● Private Poison ● Spiderpartment ● This Lustful Earth ● We, the Burning Stars ● Champions of the Holy War ● Engines of Forever ● Flowers of Heaven ● In Rooms Empty but for You ● Love in Uncertain Times