Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator based in London. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art, in particular on artforms that engage with ideas of landscape and nature. His books include Land Art (Tate Publishing, 2006), On The Very Edge Of The Ocean (Tate St Ives Research Series, 2006), and In Land: Writings Around Land Art and Its Legacies (Zero Books, 2019). A selection of art writings and projects are archived at bentufnell.com

His short stories have been published by Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, The Fiction Desk, Litro, Lunate, Storgy, Structo and The Write Launch, and as chapbooks by Nightjar Press and The Aleph Press. He has been longlisted or highly commended for the BBC Short Story Award (2022), the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize (2022), The White Review Short Story Prize (2021) and the Disquiet Fiction Prize (2020). In 2022 he was shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for short fiction. His debut novel, The North Shore, is a work of gothic literary fiction, published by Fleet Books (Little Brown) in 2023.

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‘A queer, oneiric, watery fable in which narrative form and logic are in constant flux. […] A captivating torrent of myth and grotesquery.’ – Times Literary Supplement

‘A haunting evocation of place told by those who rightly love and fear it. An enticing, wrack-like tangle of myth, mystery and the power of the sea and its stories.’ – Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies

‘Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative . . . combining the mythical and the grotesque with sublime writing and an intense fascination with the natural world.’ – Rosie Andrews, author of The Leviathan

‘That rare beast, a work of folk horror that holds its own with the classics whilst exhibiting genuine points of difference, a radical literary sensibility combined with an old-fashioned appetite for the strange.’ – Nina Allan, author of The Dollmaker