Underland Press and The Wovel

"Profoundly unsettling and intensely original, Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground cult of self-mutilators. The story follows Kline, a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. As Kline becomes involved with the cult, he begins to realize more is at stake than he previously thought. Attempting to make his way through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation, Kline discovers that his survival depends on an act of sheer will."

"From the desk of Jeff VanderMeer, one of America's foremost fantasists, comes a crime noir set in the fantastical failed state of Ambergris. In Finch, the Gray Caps, mysterious underground inhabitants, have re-conquered the city and put the human populace in camps. Remnants of the Resistance are scattered; martial law is in place. Against this backdrop, John Finch must solve an impossible double murder while trying to make contact with the rebels. Trapped by his job and the city, Finch is about to come face to face with a series of mysteries that will change him and Ambergris forever."

""You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got?" Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet, in this place-peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous-where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead . . ."

"For the first time in English, Dutch sensation Escober delivers a fast-paced thriller full of hard action, dark visions, and unpredictable twists. Plagued by blackouts, nightmares, and uncontrollable violent acts, British soldier Alex Fisher returns from his station in Bosnia to find that the life he knew has disintegrated. Escaping to Mexico, Fisher begins a globetrotting circuit in an attempt to distance himself from the demons in his head. A chance encounter with the mysterious Angela introduces Fisher to a more passionate-and more dangerous-life."

"A WOVEL is a web novel


It is the first of its kind. The author writes it. The readers vote on it. Here's how it works:


Every week, the author posts an installment. Installment length hits the sweet-spot of online reading—long enough to get interested, short enough to read in the cubicle at work. At the end of every installment, the author writes in a plot branch point. Does the heroine kill her lover? Will the zombies catch the soldier? Is the box empty, or is it filled with bees?


THE READERS DECIDE.


On Monday, the post goes up. Voting is open through Thursday. The author writes Thursday and Friday. The editors edit Friday and Saturday. The post goes back up on Monday. Part literature, part exquisite corpse. The pace of print journalism, the imagination of fiction, the spark of reader participation."

"Months after the Marseilles Plague ravished the planet, Madison McKay must escape from the city to the safety of Salus Island, the last sanctuary for those of her kind. Madison is a Reborn, one of the lucky few who traveled through death to the other side. Outside the walls of the farmhouse in which she is hiding with a ragtag group of allies, a desperate enemy awaits-a horde of murderous, bloodthirsty humans known as the Living. They are the uninfected, doomed to live life as it used to be before the plague. And they need Madison, and the secret she is carrying, in order to survive. With the help of her fellow Reborn, Madison tries to escape the farmhouse and make it to Salus Island. Will they make it out alive? In this groundbreaking, online wovel, the reader decides."