Folk Horror

When a new doctor takes a post in a rain-soaked mountain village, the villagers warn her never to leave a light on for the moths in autumn, because they are not drawn to the warmth but to something worse.

After a birth that ended badly in the city, a nurse-midwife takes a quiet post in Grithfen, a tidal fen village where certain newborns are owed to the water under an ancient bargain. Asked to deliver one such child, she must choose between the trust that shelters her and the price of refusal.

A coastal village keeps a four-hundred-year account on salt and straw and blood, and the new Tidewarden must send the substitution to the marsh before the bell comes inland.