Workmanship Hand-sewn booklet, printed on a few hand-made cotton rag pages with deckled edges. ABOUT D.P. WATT D. P. Watt is one of the most highly esteemed authors of weird fiction writing today - „somewhere between E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nabokov and Ligotti“, according to Charles Schneider's characterization of his work. Apart from many essays he has written more than ninety short stories and novellas which have been published in six collections, among them An Emporium of Automata (Ex Occidente, 2010; Eibonvale, 2013), The Phantasmagorical Imperative (Egaeus, 2014; The Interlude House, 2015), Almost Insentient, Almost Divine (Undertow, 2016), and Petals and Violins (Tartarus, 2019). The work is over. The air reeks with the sweat of loading and unloading, the packing and craning of the sprat boxes, the stacking upon the low barges that catch the flow into the great city, or the sliding onto squat trucks for the short journey to the railway station. Morning markets for miles around will soon be bustling with the keen barter of this silvery bounty. But the sea does not erase the memories of toil and tragedy. Evening at The Hard is an in-between time, where fantasy mingles with bruised and broken skin.