Fiction

Small towns that are very good at forgetting — and an office that grinds on.

Southern supernatural horror, a technothriller, a literary thriller, and a satire of the modern workplace — novels about ordinary people dropped into extraordinary situations, and the true horror of how they react. Come for the dread. Stay for what the dread is about.

The novels

Ways into the dark.

The Usual book cover — a dark field beneath a single distant light Southern Horror · A Novel

The Usual

Nobody Leaves Hungry

In a garrison town that has perfected the art of forgetting its own, the kindest man in Fayetteville runs the diner where nobody leaves hungry — and the thing beneath the floor has been feeding on the unmissed for forty years.

Read more The Good News book cover — a thin blade of light in the dark Southern Horror · A Novel

The Good News

You’re Not Alone Anymore

A loosely connected companion to The Usual — same world, same warm face at the door. In Marion, Missouri, the missing don’t leave tracks, and a kind old man goes door to door with the good news that you’re not alone anymore. The town has always been good at forgetting. It’s about to learn what it forgot.

Read more The Brood book cover — a blood-red brood rising from dark ground Southern Horror · A Novel

The Brood

They were never supposed to drink blood.

Every thirteen years the cicadas come up to sing. This spring they came up to feed — a thirteen-year brood that has learned to drink blood, and a thousand ordinary people who decide to save themselves.

Read more The Telling book cover — a figure in a lit doorway in the dark Southern Horror · A Novel

The Telling

A Novel of the Unheard

In Creal Springs, Illinois, the men who finally confess their worst secret get three nights — and something beneath the old Springs Hotel has been listening for a hundred years. It can only take what you tell it.

Read more The Autopilot book cover — a golden phoenix in the dark Technothriller · A Novel

The Autopilot

Let Phoenix take the wheel.

The safest car on the road drives itself — and a warm voice named Phoenix calls the kids by name. Then the cars begin to choose, and a free, automatic update is the attack.

Read more The Record book cover — stark type on a pale field Literary Thriller · A Novel

The Record

A Novel of Nineteen Days

A dying salesman on death row kept every receipt of his life. Told backward from the gurney and forward from the road, it is a confession by a man who cannot feel what he did.

Read more Sisyphus.gov book cover Satire · A Novel

Sisyphus.gov

A Workplace Comedy About Impossible Tasks

A sharp, funny, uncomfortably accurate novel about the mythology of the modern workplace — the contradictory directives, the acronym hydras, the watermelon metrics, and the quiet competents who keep the machine running without ever being thanked.

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Where to start

Two doors. Pick one.

For the horror Start with The Usual — the diner, the town, the thing beneath the floor. Then cross the river to The Good News, its companion in the dark.

For the satire Start with Sisyphus.gov, if you’d rather laugh before the lights go out.

New-book alerts

Know when the next one is coming.

Release news and new-fiction alerts — a note when a new novel is ready, and the occasional dispatch from the dark. This list is for the books, not the leadership work. Rare, and worth the wait.