“Toase’s debut collection confidently announces his uniquely terrifying voice to the world. Hand this volume out with confidence to fans of horror stories that crawl inside the reader and take residence such as those by Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, and Samanta Schweblin.” -Booklist
“Steve Toase’s outstanding first collection, To Drown in Dark Water, is an invigorating and chaotic blend of stories. They are almost universally short, vicious, and elegant, varied in their style and angle of attack. One has the feeling of being dipped into a vat of piranhas while high on painkillers: you know this probably is going to end in screams, but what an amazing experience until then.”— Nathan Ballingrud, Author of Wounds and North American Lake Monsters