Afterglow

Afterglow · Independent publishing house

Books, films and stories
for a wider life.

A night at the cinema. A voice on the radio. A book that stays with you. We publish work for the curious, the imaginative and the quietly restless.

Oil painting of a neighbourhood cinema at night, champagne marquee lights on a wet street. Now showing · 40 minutesGoing to the Movies
in 1977.
The anticipation. The darkened room.
A whole world on the screen.
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Selected publications

Something to stay with.

Read slowly. Watch closely.
Follow what holds your attention.

In development · Illustrated speculative fiction

The Afterglow universe

A broken artist begins to recover childhood encounters with a greater reality—just as intelligence crosses beyond the human frame.

Read the first glimpse
A woman with a cup beside a radio and a glowing kitchen lamp at night.

Afterglow Stories · While the World Sleeps

For the hours
when the world goes quiet.

Fiction in the spirit of late-night radio. Unhurried voices, music and the small lives that can fill a room when someone takes the time to listen.

Begin with The Man Who Kept the Light On.

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Keep a little room for discovery

Come back for the next story.

Follow Afterglow Stories on YouTube for new listening, or explore the books and films here.

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