Winner of the 2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Long FictionNominated for the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella"Intelligent, compassionate and unsettling."—The New York Times“Devlin twists and breaks the typical zombie narrative without spoiling one of the cleverest conceits in recent horror. Suffice to say that the author takes a scalpel to the post-truth era.”—Esquire

'A beautifully told and deeply troubling story that confirms Devlin's place at the forefront of Weird fiction.' – Ginger Nuts of Horror Rob is a Crescent kid. Born and raised in the sheltered circle of grey semis, built to house the employees of The City Works and their families. Under the eye of the reclusive Mr Olhouser, the residents of The Crescent go about their work, their lessons and their law, accompanied by the never-ending sound of The Works machinery deep under the ground. When ...

'Set to become one of the decade's landmarks of English weird.' – Nina Allan, author of Conquest WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANGELA SLATTER Malcolm Devlin's debut short-fiction collection, first published in 2017, announced the arrival of a major new talent in the worlds of weird fiction and literary horror. In You Will Grow Into Them, change is the only constant. These ten stories tackle the unease of transformation, growth, and change in a world where the mundane is only a veneer hiding t...

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up is a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it's hard to be certain of an...

Tordotcom Publishing is proud to present a sneak peek of its 2022 debut novel and novella authors.In modern day Los Angeles, a shadowy faction led by the Governor of California develops the arcane art of combat linguistics, planting the seeds of a future totalitarian empire in Scotto Moore's Battle of the Linguist Mages.Marion Deed's Comeuppance Served Cold is a hard-boiled historical fantasy of criminalit...

Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost.Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horri...

**NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered.“A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and ... adventure.” — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club**Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak,...

*** FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK ***'A thrilling hall of mirrors filled with deeply disturbing twists' - ALEX MICHAELIDES'A desert-dust nightmare with a scorpion's sting, and I loved it' - EMMA STONEX________________________________________You can't escape the desert. You can't escape Sundial.Rob fears for her daughters. For Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary ...

**A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn MuirMEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE**In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institu...

We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead.One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until is starts killing.Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He'll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll kill as many people as he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes—some...

Four brand-new horror novellas from "a modern-day Algernon Blackwood" all about books, stories, manuscripts—the written word has never had sharper teeth . . .BOOKS CAN BE DEADLYIn The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths.A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers' Last Ride.In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book.A choose-y...

“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington PostA cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?Art Barbara was sonot cool. He was...