Necrosmologies is LIVE

Necrosmologies by Anthony Cartwright publishes today + Voce Books launch in Birmingham

Author

Kym Deyn
September 25, 2025

Necrosmologies by Anthony Cartwright cover

“That the beetle god was dying was clear enough – maybe the fact it was dying meant it had never been a god. How would we know?”

Here are worlds dealing with environmental catastrophe; an alternative reality where magical creatures perform the work of industrialisation, the real town of Dudley and its subterranean mirror-world, Yeldud; an alternative political history, where Labour leader Mary Macarthur almost becomes British Prime Minister in the 1920s and a 1970s Birmingham where workers catch space-ferries to quarries on the moon.

Necrosmologies is a speculative fiction collection that reimagines industrial process and the lives of the working-class, with all the charm of Calvino and Borges. 

“Both real and unreal, both beautiful and bordering on terrifying”.

—Kerry Hadley-Pryce, author of The Black Country, God’s Country and Gamble

“There are ghosts, lindworms, the undead and more unfathomable creatures besides. Cartwright reminds us the landscape is alive—what we thought were inanimate soils are rich with creatures and stories that illuminate who we are, who we’ve been and who we could be again. I’m livid with envy I didn’t come up with this. It’s sensational!”

—R. M. Francis

Necrosmologies is a 64p illustrated novella in micro-fiction available for £8.99 from thebraag.co, printed on entirely recycled 100gsm paper with 350gsm matt cover.

You can book tickets for the book launch TONIGHT (25th September) here, it takes place at Voce Books in Birmingham, 54-57 Allison Street Birmingham B5 5TH.

Here’s a sample from Anthony’s fantastic new book:

We’ll be in your inbox next week with some news about the Braag’s 25-6 publishing line up, as well as our line up for Issue 13 of Carmen et Error.

See you then!

Kym
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