Start with The Ball, the opening story of Accounts from the Hesswick Coast.
Read The Ball →World file 01 / R. Delacorme / In circulation
The Green Fog Coast.
A coast where the fog arrived and ordinary life continued.
These are not ghost stories, and the fog is not a single explanation. No one on the coast fully agrees on what it is, whether it seeks anything, or whether the same rules apply from one place to the next. The record is made from lives, cases, fables, testimony and documents that do not entirely agree with one another.
The original archive
Four collections. One coastline.
Stories and records from across the coast trace how people learned to live with the fog, and what that accommodation cost them.
Collection I
Accounts from the Hesswick Coast
Thirty-two stories, reports and institutional records assembled from forty years of life in and around Hesswick.
Read at Delacorme →Collection II
Twenty-One Cases
Twenty-one cases organised through first contact, local practice, maps and records, and what remains after accommodation becomes routine.
Read at Delacorme →Collection III
Eighteen Lives
Eighteen lives arranged around what people carry, how belonging changes, the reasonable arrangements people make, and what is passed on.
Read at Delacorme →Collection IV
Nine Better Versions
Nine later records about memory, identity, correction, replacement and the attraction of an apparently better version.
Read at Delacorme →Witnesses
The same world, observed differently.
The original archive is only one route into the coast. Other series use their own forms, tones and recurring figures. Their relationship to the fog remains deliberately unresolved.
Investigation
Inspector Machen
Cases in which ordinary crimes drift towards stranger causes and the evidence rarely remains still.
Bedtime tales
Grandmother Elowen
Stories told in and around Salthorpe. Written for younger readers, with the coast’s uncertainty intact.
Comic inquiry
Sir Cardevane
Cases recorded by Bartholomew, clerk to a knight whose confidence consistently outruns the available evidence.
Far Wood
Wren
A girl of shifting histories moves through stories where identity, threshold and route never become fully reliable.
Travelling archive
Malinverno’s Travelling Circus
Stories from a circus whose social organisation, route and remains reveal another edge of the same uncertain world.
Fables
Fables from the Green Fog Coast
Animal fables in which moral certainty is tested by appetite, fear, vanity and consequence.
In formation
Walter
An unfinished series within the Green Fog Coast. Publication details remain open.
Begin here
Three ways into the world.
The archive
The case file
Start with Inspector Machen for a more procedural and recognisable investigation form.
Find Inspector Machen →The younger route
Enter through Grandmother Elowen, Wren or the fables when repeated forms and oral storytelling are the better door.
Browse stories →“The green was not bright up close. It was old glass and water over copper. It did not glow. It made the darkness beside it darker.”