Jan 16, 2025

Cover Artist: Mary Sanche

Interior Illustrations: Leah Gharbaharan

Book Design: M. Halstead

between doorways

explorations into liminal space

edited by TJ Price

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 . . .

Cross the threshold between doorways, and enter into [                            ] 

Cross the threshold between doorways with these tales of transient neverwheres and—

Cross the threshold between doorways, but beware [                            ]

Enter between doorways, and cross the threshold into a transient neverwhere

(tales of transient neverwheres)

(seventeen tales of transient neverwheres)

stairwell/playtime/factory                                       oɥɔǝ/graveyard/glass

airport/bubble/airport/hallway                            Internet/abandoned/dream

Void/hotel/barrow                                               memory/noone/∞