Set across liminal landscapes, this collection of fourteen stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe feature characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds—grieving, seeking meaning, or reconciling with the past.   

Whether it is a reclusive sculptor haunted by guilt, a lost child drawing maps in the sand, or a greyhound silently shadowing a man to a mountain lake, Mac Cabe's lyrical prose and inventive narrative structures evoke an eerie, tender intimacy.   

Rich and atmospheric, exploring themes of memory, solitude, loss, and the mysterious rhythms of nature and human connection, this collection blurs the line between the internal and external world, and invites us into spaces of beauty, melancholy and subtle transformation. Four Night Seas marks the arrival of a vital new voice in Irish writing.



Niamh Mac Cabe is an award-winning writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, and hybrid prose. She's also a visual artist, an editor, a writing mentor, and a lecturer at ATU Sligo.



'Arrestingly precise and beautifully worked, this is a fine collection of short stories.'



An entrancing collection. I love how Mac Cabe writes about trees, dogs, and art. Her stories made me think of the invisible complexity of every seemingly ordinary person, not to mention animal and plant.



'A skilled storyteller. Mac Cabe finds stories in the quotidian ... Beguilingly fresh.'



'Reading Niamh Mac Cabe is like encountering a new form of myth taking shape, warning us to reexamine the choices we once assumed would keep us safe. Both harrowing and tender, these stories left me breathless, unnerved, and profoundly moved – a rare combination of experiences, shaped and burnished by a truly extraordinary storyteller.'



'S trange, exhilarating  and  singular ,  this collection has a  consciousness of its own ... Hallucinogenic and highly, highly precise.'