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

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

Read OLYOKE in its entirety here.

And just a reminder that Kristal Stittle's KAYAK—which weaves alien invasion thrills with survival horror in a coming-of-age framework—is out next week!

Early readers have hailed it as a blend of The Walking Dead, A Quiet Place, and YA classic Hatchet by Gary Paulsen:

For eighteen-year-old Keith—floating alone on a series of lakes and rivers, lost and without supplies—his kayak is his means of survival. Solid ground means certain death at the scissor-claws of vicious invading creatures.  

What he needs is to find more people; but terrible guilt anchors him in solitude. A year earlier, when the creatures first appeared, it was Keith's choices that brought disaster to the island community that took him in.

Now, it's time to take responsibility for his actions, heal his scars, and survive.

Told in two alternating timelines, Kayak is a story of family, the strength we draw from others, and the strength we learn to draw from ourselves.

"Deceptively unsettling, smart survival horror…grips you by the throat and [doesn’t] let go."

• Max Booth III, I Believe in Mister Bones

“A riveting, fast-paced, genre-blending story.”

• Laura Cranehill, Wife Shaped Bodies

"KAYAK absolutely drowns you in detail. Stittle has an uncanny ability to convey tactile prose with such supreme clarity that I caught myself holding my breath on a few occasions. A hypnotically suffocating and immersive read." 

• J.Krawczyk, author of It Looks Like Dad

Release Date: February 17, 2026

$19.99, Trade Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-959790-57-0  

Read KAYAK in its entirety here.

Thank you for everything you do, booksellers; and Happy New Year!

Matt + Alex

Tenebrous Press

www.tenebrouspress.com