Hails, Booksellers,

Arriving next week—just in time for Trans Day of Visibility!—you're all invited to one of the most unusual, intriguing towns in America (and one of The Lineup's most anticipated books of the month!)

Olyoke, Tennessee: home to a Dollywood-style theme park, generations of troubled families, mysterious plagues, impossible architecture, and the prophecies of a dead architect turned cult leader who has foretold a fiery cataclysm.

Read Vincent Endwell's OLYOKE here.

wraparound cover art by Jenna Cha

As the time of the fire nears, inexplicable events compound:

Darcy, a Dolly Parton impersonator, finds strange worms in the swamp and feeds them to her dog, who begins to speak with the voice of Darcy's dead mother;

Recently divorced Lyle Knox is called through its dreams by a strange house, and soon discovers that Lyle Knox itself is not a person, but a structure;

Maggie Warner organizes a theater production to stave off her gnawing misery and becomes convinced that only the people she sees in her dreams are real. Moreover, the Whistler—the man Maggie becomes when she sleeps—welcomes the town’s impending Judgment with open arms.

Many destinies will converge in Olyoke. None will escape unchanged.

Release Date: March 24, 2026                                   $18.99, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-959790-53-2   

"Steeped in the dark strangeness and wry dread of a classic Vertigo comic. An intriguing mosaic.”

• Hailey Piper, Stoker Award-winning author of A Light Most Hateful

"A bizarre mélange of deep-fried down-home southern gothic and mind-melting cosmic horror that will keep you flipping pages til the horrifying end. Absurdist, entirely of this moment, and completely off the rails." 

• Bitter Karella, author of Moonflow

sample of interior art by Echo Echo

Read OLYOKE in its entirety here.

"A prismatic puzzle box coyly interfolding the creepy and the melancholy. Olyoke is a town where you should never go and might never leave, a swamp of plagues which will infect you into lusting after infection."

• Dale Stromberg, author of Gyre

Next month sees the release of the latest volume of our acclaimed twin-novella series, SPLIT SCREAM: Cursed Places!

This is not a place of honor. This place is Cursed. These New Weird Horror novelettes are a danger to the Body, and to the Mind, and they can Kill.

Read SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES here.

First up, from two-time Ladies of Horror Award Winner and BRAVE NEW WEIRD recipient Sonora Taylor comes the politically charged "Passing Glance":

Washington, D.C.’s sprawling and storied Moore Mansion is built upon intrigue and secrecy, playing host to both political elites and the merely curious alike. Its labyrinthine rooms and passageways, festooned in eclectic art and mysterious mirrors, captivate all who explore them.

 Dylan arrives at the mansion for her friend’s 30th birthday party at a crossroads of her own: adrift, eager to reunite with old friends, and seeking to rekindle a long-held lust for one of the group. But tonight she will discover the true terrifying secrets of Moore Mansion: a house built to be a city, and one which unfolds like a trap.

Then, Matthew Pritt takes you to a grim Weird second-world fantasy where environmental collapse has taken on a new horrific form, in "Lash Egg":

The people of the Doe’s country walk in the Balance, attuned to the land and guided by their benevolent nature spirit. For Ben, a refugee who narrowly escaped the madness-infested Bear’s country to the south, the Doe remains a mystery. Ben has never heard the Doe speak, and marvels at his neighbors’ firsthand experiences with his new home’s Protector. Fortunately his ten-year-old daughter, Lydia, doesn’t share his struggles, and adapts to life in the Doe with ease. 

But when a mysterious wasting plague attacks the local wildlife, Ben suspects he is the cause of it. As the plague spreads and threatens to collapse the Doe’s entire ecosystem, Ben must discover how he has offended the Doe, or risk losing the only safe place he and his daughter have ever known.

Release Date: April 21, 2026                                                                            $14.99, Trade Paperback

Print ISBN: 978-1-959790-61-7      

Read SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES here.

We'll be back soon to tell you about our epic summer releases, as well as some huge (good!) news re: changes to our distribution beginning June 1st!

Be well, and thank you for all you do for independent publishing.

Matt + Alex

Tenebrous Press

www.tenebrouspress.com