Winner of the Australian Shadows Award for Best Long FictionNominated for the 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

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...

'A beautifully told and deeply troubling story that confirms Devlin's place at the forefront of Weird fiction.'– Ginger Nuts of HorrorRob 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...

'Set to become one of the decade's landmarks of English weird.'– Nina Allan, author of ConquestWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANGELA SLATTERMalcolm 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 wor...

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...

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat together overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public. Some might say he spoils his son by allowing him to eat candy whenever he wants and set his own bedtimes. Some might say that such leni...

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting alien find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet and disabled by Earth’s gravity. To survive, they will need to practice walking. And what bet...

*** 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 ...

"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author“Leede’s words and narrator Sosie Bacon’s voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.” - Library JournalA provocative debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to ic...

STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist!A Most-Anticipated Title in CrimeReads, BookRiot, Tor.com, Electric Lit, and more.Featured in Autostraddle, Apartment Therapy, Goodreads, and more.Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of surviva...

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...