The Other Places is a collection of standalone atmospheric mysteries about strange locations, buried systems, unsettling discoveries and the people who have to live with what they find.
The novels do not share a required reading order. Each book has its own characters, setting and mystery. What connects them is an interest in the moment when an apparently ordinary place stops behaving like one.
Read in any order
Bellwether
A standalone atmospheric mystery from The Other Places.
An ordinary setting begins to produce evidence that does not fit the explanation everyone would prefer. The deeper the investigation goes, the more difficult it becomes to separate what happened from what the place itself may be doing.
Persistence of Vision
A standalone uncanny mystery from The Other Places.
A mystery of perception, evidence and persistence, following people forced to decide what counts as proof when the thing they are trying to understand will not remain conveniently visible.
Free story: Beneath Saint Mere
A complete short story from The Other Places.
At a natural burial ground, the earth is moving the dead. Beneath the frozen orchard, an investigation into displaced coffins reveals that the explanation is stranger, older and considerably less comfortable than vandalism.
Benjamin L. Smith 