Between Doorways

There are places in the world which blur and fuzz when your attention strays toward them-places which can only be seen out of the corner of your eye. They are everywhere around us: lurking behind the door-left-ajar, shifting in the dimly-lit mirror, phasing in and out of both dream and memory. These interstitial domains are what we call 'liminal spaces, ' ecotones of dread and persistent unease between reality and an undefined beyond. In between doorways, seventeen authors explore this hazy middle-ground with tales of transient neverwheres, choosing to fix with their most confident gaze that which evades definition. Here you will find hallways and stairwells that go on forever; portals that invite and trap in equal measure; airports where no plane will ever land; memories distorted by nostalgia's eerie poison; and, above all, an increasing sense that everything as you know it is coming undone in spectral threads all around you...