What the Shadows Take (Paperback)

What the Shadows Take …and the Darkness Keep published 2025 

What the Shadows Take …and the Darkness Keeps is a quiet collection of loss, ancient ties, and things unseen. A child spills droplets of blood for protection against a familiar evil. A man seeks a back-alley cure for an addiction he cannot outrun. A quiet man with a quiet life learns he can resurrect whatever he kills, and his powers are aimed at someone he could never have.

These are stories of the dying and the dead, malformed creatures, and family secrets that won’t stay drowned. Once these shadowy fingers reach into your soul, the darkness will never relinquish the things they take. In Dylan T. Bosworth’s debut collection, the horrors aren’t always loud, but they are persistent, and they want something that you have.