Scapegoats & Crowbars

Scapegoats & Crowbars is a collection containing 22 imaginative tales, ranging in length from the traditional short story to the more compact flash fiction. While the styles and subject matter are both extensive and intriguing, these stories are threaded together by their unconventional examination of people’s individual impulses and humanity’s instinctive behaviour. Often philosophical, sometimes sceptical and occasionally provocative, Scapegoats & Crowbars lures the reader into darkened realms where the lines between fantasy and reality are both unsettling and unreliably blurred.

Released 8th March 2020

Available in paperback and ebook:

For those outside the UK, both versions are also available in the US, France, Spain, Germany, Italy.

Zonal Horizons

This Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology, published in 2018, contains two of Elias Pell’s short stories which won AudioArcadia’s International Competition that year. Both stories were originally intended to be included within Scapegoats & Crowbars and can be read with such a thought in mind.

In Timeo Danaos, a new species of jellyfish mysteriously washes up dead with the tide, and humanity is not prepared for the consequences that follow. And in White Elephants Remain, the story follows a homeless man and his dog as they cling to one another in the final, bizarre hours leading up to the end of the world.

Released September 2018.

Available in paperback through Lulu and Amazon:

Binary Moons Rising

Published back in 2007, this Limited Edition poetry book contains two collections: Lullabies for an Insomniac by Elias Pell (writing under a different name) and Out-Stretched Limbs, written by fellow poet and friend Ozan Fahri. Elias Pell’s collection was crafted through his late teenage years and into his early twenties, and his poems portray a dreamer reaching the crossroads of adulthood. One who shies away from the normal path, losing himself by wandering through the foreign countries on his journey and the twisted alleys of his daydreams.

Previously believed to have been “sold out”, Elias recently found a couple of dusty boxes—hidden away in storage—with some last surviving copies of this beautiful hardback edition. He is currently deciding how best to share these remaining collections (see Elias Pell’s Patreon Page for more details).