Lyndsey Croal

Lyndsey Croal is a Scottish author of strange and speculative fiction, with work published or forthcoming in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, and PseudoPod. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, former Hawthornden Fellow, and a Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant Recipient.

She has two titles with Shortwave Publishing: “Have You Decided on Your Question” (April 2023), a science fiction novelette, and Limelight (Sept 2024), a dark science fiction collection. She also has a number of other longer projects in the works, often at the intersection of science fiction and horror.

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Titles by Lyndsey Croal
🏆 Bestseller
🥇 Award Finalist
A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology
Magazine Pieces by Lyndsey Croal
At seventy-seven, Hank Arthurs was Rivers Corp’s oldest retiree, a feat for any employee, never mind a manual labourer. To mark his years of service, the company threw a retirement party. There was cake, fizz, and a card signed by his colleagues—human and automated alike…
The ghosts gather on the burnt trees like a murder of crows, hungry-eyed and conspiratorial. Black feathery wisps dance around them, while talon-like hands grip to charred branches. They can see me, but they don’t yet know I can see them…
Lyndsey Croal News
October 10, 2024
BOOK RIOT included Lyndsey Croal’s brilliant collection, Limelight and Other Stories, on their list of “8 Outstanding SF&F Short Story Collections”…
June 10, 2024
Today we are revealing the cover for Lyndsey Croal’s collection of high-concept dark science fiction tales, Limelight and Other Storeis…
May 15, 2024
Our debut anthology, OBSOLESCENCE, was named a Finalist today in the Best New Horror category at the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards…
February 14, 2024
Today we are announcing the acquisition of Limelight, a collection by Lyndsey Croal. Limelight is a collection of over twenty high-concept dark science fiction tales from near and far futures…
June 12, 2023
Horror DNA recently poster their review of our anthology, OBSOLESCENCE, edited by Alan Lastufka and Kristina Horner. They gave the book a perfect 5 out of 5 star rating, saying…
March 30, 2023
Horror DNA recently posted their review of Lyndsey Croal’s novelette, Have You Decided on Your Question. They gave the book four stars, saying…
January 19, 2023
Today we are revealing the cover for Lyndsey Croal’s sci-fi novelette, Have You Decided on Your Question…
December 20, 2022
Today we are announcing the acquisition of a new novella by author Lyndsey Croal. Have You Decided on Your Question will be published in April 2023 in paperback and eBook formats…
December 6, 2022
Naomi Grossman is wrapping up her Foreword for OBSOLESCENCE this week! She called OBSOLESCENCE co-editor, Alan Lastufka, after reading the first five stories…
November 3, 2022
The OBSOLESCENCE anthology started with 12 Featured Authors a few months ago. Then we read through 628 open submissions and narrowed those down to just 12 additional stories to complete the anthology…