Description
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.
Jamie R. (verified owner) –
In the darkest corners of our hearts looms the thoughts we hope never to unearth. The types of things we are all capable of if pushed far enough. How we think about others. What happens outside of our control as we all walk through our time. Dylan Bosworth’s book “What the Shadows Take …And the Darkness Keeps” takes you down these paths among others. The stories are best read and reflected on one by one like any good short fiction and some sting harder than others but at the end of each story, no more than ten minutes to absorb, you’ll find yourself soaking in the darkness. There’s a very human experience in these pages for those willing to let themselves feel some discomfort. This book starts with a creeping internal monologue in a restaurant and ends with a murky contract sealed in the swamps. I dare you to dive deep and let that darkness have you. If only for just a couple moments at a time.