Sick Girl Screams

SJ Townend's debut horror collection - published by Brigids Gate Press (2024).

Woven together by the black ribbon of grief, with whispers of haunted children, feminism, and the unnerving concept of infinity, this inaugural collection of dark fiction by SJ Townend is an eclectic mixture of reprints and original material.

"An extraordinary debut collection. It’s new and it’s urgent and sometimes it’ll make you laugh and oftentimes it’ll make you hurt. And it does that thrilling thing that all really good fiction should do. It convinces you that the writer is making herself present to you, and she’s unapologetic about it in all her complexity," - Robert Shearman, World Fantasy Award Winner & Dr Who writer.

Prepare to unravel.

Your Final Sunset

SJ Townend's second horror collection - available for preorder now from Sley House Press (2025)

This newest collection of short horror stories, Your Final Sunset, from SJ Townend, is a petrifying deep-dive into the obscurity which lurks beneath everyday life, where the familiar turns terrifying.

“A kaleidoscope of grief, longing, and the surreal, 'Your Final Sunset' reads like an elegy to the forgotten and the forsaken,” – Stuart Conover, Horror Tree & JournalStone Network EIC.

“A tight bundle of dynamite,” – Alex Woodroe, Tenebrous Press EIC, author of Whisperwood.

Imagine your final sunset, go on. Visualize your last night on Earth. Now, prepare for the terror that comes when the darkness never ends.