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
A Collection of Dark Sci-Fi Stories
🏆 Bestseller
A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology
Magazine Pieces by Lyndsey Croal
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
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…
March 13, 2023
Nicholas Binge, author of Ascension, recently read an early copy of Lyndsey Croal’s Have You Decided on Your Question…
January 26, 2023
Chloe Timms, author of The Seawomen, recently read an early copy of Lyndsey Croal’s Have You Decided on Your Question. She offered the following thoughts after reading…
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…