A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. A starving woman learns from howling winds and a whispering host, just how fulfilling it can finally be. Can it be love?

Monstrous Affections

Literature & Fiction

Nickle, David

Genre Fiction

ChiZine Publications

From the award-winning "heir to the mantle of Stephen King": A supernatural entity draws a woman into a terrifying nightmare (The National Post). &nbsp; Some little girls have imaginary friends. Ann LeSage had the Insect. A violent poltergeist that tore a murderous path through her family, it wasn't imaginary--and it definitely wasn't a friend. &nbsp; Now Ann is all grown up--and so is the Insect. And Ann's upcoming marriage to a mysterious young lawyer is about to open up a whole new world to both of them, rife with secrets and laced with traps. Soon, Ann will find herself in a perverse battle against a group of men who want to wrest control of the Insect from her. What they don't know is, if you play with the Insect, you're sure to get stung&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. &nbsp; "Few writers do psychosexual horror as well as Toronto's David Nickle, and with The 'Geisters he's back with another tale of voluptuous terror and the supernatural." --Toronto Star &nbsp; "This is a book that buzzes in your ears, climbs your crawling skin with multiple barbed feet, feeling with exquisitely sensitive antennae for the next new and terrible revelation." --The National Post &nbsp; "[The 'Geisters] doesn't just explore the attractiveness of terror--it embodies it in a narrative that demands (excites even as it repels) your attention. It's a(nother) strong novel by one of the best, most interesting horror writers working today." --Bookgasm

The 'Geisters

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

This debut horror novel by the author of acclaimed short story collection Monstrous Affections "establishes him as a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King" (National Post). &nbsp; Set in 1911, Eutopia "mixes utopian vision, rustic Americana, and pure creepiness.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Nickle blends Little House on the Prairie with distillates of Rosemary's Baby and The X-Files to create a chilling survival-of-the-fittest story" (Publishers Weekly). &nbsp; Situated on the edge of the woods and mountains of northern Idaho, the tiny settlement of Eliada is an industrialist's attempt to create heaven on earth. But its secrets are soon to be unveiled, as Jason Thistledown, the sole survivor of a mysterious plague in Montana, and Andrew Waggoner, a black doctor nearly lynched by the KKK, delve beneath the façade of the utopian mill town. What they discover is science warped by ideology--and an unearthly monster that preys on the faith of its own true believers&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. &nbsp; "A story of piano-wire suspense, grotesque horrors, and, above all, visceral insight into the race politics of American horror, and how they are bound up with the American project itself." --Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing &nbsp; Praise for David Nickle &nbsp; "His stories are dark, wildly imaginative, and deeply compassionate--even when they're laced with righteous anger." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds "David Nickle is Canada's answer to Stephen King. His writing charms even as it slices like a blade between the ribs: sharp, subtle, and never less than devastating." --Helen Marshall, author of Gifts for the One Who Comes After

Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (The Book of the Juke Series)

United States

Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination (The Book of the Juke Series)

"Part BioShock, part X-Files, part Sopranos--and 100%, uncut Nickle .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. a glorious, chaotic delight" from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Volk (Peter Watts, author of Blindsight). &nbsp; Post-Cold War, a group of Russians bred from childhood to be psychic spies are called from around the globe to achieve their true purpose: world domination. But some of them have flourished in the lives they have carved out for themselves--often in nefarious ways--and they will not give up their freedom without a fight, even as a new generation of telepathic children, the beautiful dreamers, are coming into power&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. &nbsp; In Rasputin's Bastards, David Nickle--the acclaimed author of Eutopia, Monstrous Affections, and Volk--offers readers "an enormous tale, bewilderingly complex, but with lots of twists and turns that reward close attention. It is grotesque, violent, and exciting, with a supernatural tinge that is his hallmark" (Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing). &nbsp; "This novel is supernatural eeriness at its best, with intriguing characters, no clear heroes, and a dark passion at its heart. Horror aficionados and fans of Stephen King's larger novels should appreciate this macabre look at the aftermath of the Cold War." --Library Journal &nbsp; "Stiffly compelling. Once you're done, there's no question: the hours spent enfolded in Nickle's imagination are well spent. You won't ever feel the desire to ask for them back." --January Magazine &nbsp; "A journey from the depths of the sea, the heart of Mother Russia, to the darkest corners of the soul." --K. E. Bergdoll, The Crow's Caw &nbsp;

Rasputin's Bastards

Open Road Media

Knife Fight: And Other Struggles

Humor & Satire

"Rich characters and a love of unique twists top off a captivating and sometimes gruesome collection of nightmares" from the award-winning author of Volk (Corey Redekop, author of Husk). &nbsp; Winner of the Black Quill Reader's Choice Award, Monstrous Affections heralded the appearance of a thrilling new writer on the horror scene, praised by the National Post as "a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King." &nbsp; David Nickle's debut collection features "13 terrifying tales of rural settings, complex and reticent characters and unexpected twists that question the fundamentals of reality. All are delivered with a certain grace, creating a sparse yet poetic tour of the horrors that exist just out of sight. Standout stories include 'Janie and the Wind,' where a battered, abandoned woman does what she needs to survive; 'Other People's Kids,' a disturbing examination of the razor-thin moment dividing childhood from maturity and the hand holding that razor; and 'The Pit Heads,' a phenomenal story about the cold remnants of a Canadian mining town and the true cost of beauty. This ambitious collection firmly establishes Nickle as a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). &nbsp; "Brilliant&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. You'd think that you were reading a book full of what you had always expected a horror story to be, but Nickle takes a left turn and blindsides you with tales that are not of the norm, but are all the more horrific because of the surprise twists, darkness and raw emotion." --January Magazine, "Best Books of 2009" &nbsp; "David Nickle writes 'em damned weird and damned good and damned dark. He is bourbon-rough, poetic and vivid. Don't miss this one." --Cory Doctorow, New York Times-bestselling author

Monstrous Affections: Stories

When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend - a poltergeist, that spoke to her with flying knives and howling winds. She called it the Insect. And with a little professional help, she contained it. And the nightmare was over, at least for a time. But the nightmare never truly ended. As Ann grew from girl into young woman, the Insect grew with her. It became more than terrifying. It became a thing of murder. Now, as she embarks on a new life married to Michael Voors, a successful young lawyer, Ann believes that she finally has the Insect under control. But there are others vying to take that control away from her. They may not know exactly what they're dealing with, but they know they want it. They are the 'Geisters. And in pursuing their own perverse dream, they risk spawning the most terrible nightmare of all.

A young man at loose ends finds he cannot look away from his new lover's alien gaze. A young woman out of time seeks her old lover in the cold spaces between the stars. The fleeing worshippers of an ancient and jealous deity seek solace in an unsuspecting New World congregation. In a suburban nursery, a demon with a grudge and a lonely exorcist face off for what could be the last time. And when a big city mayor who delineates his mandate by the slash of a blade faces an unexpected challenger, it turns into a struggle that threatens to consume everything. In Knife Fight and Other Struggles, David Nickle follows his award-winning debut collection Monstrous Affections with a new set of dark tales that span space, time, and genre.

Knife Fight and Other Struggles

At the dawn of the twentieth century in the Idaho logging town of Eliada, orphaned farm boy Jason Thistledown and black physician Andrew Waggoner came face to face with monsters: the human sort, in the form of American eugenicists seeking to perfect the human race through breeding and culls; and the inhuman, a parasitic species named Juke, that lived off the hopes, dreams, and faith of humanity, even as it consumed it from within. The year is 1931 . . . In a remote valley in the Bavarian Alps, the Germanic students of those eugenicists seek to uncover the secret of the Juke and the promise of the Übermensch. In Paris, Dr. Andrew Waggoner enters his third decade of unravelling the mystery of the elusive organism. Jason Thistledown, now a veteran pilot of World War I, gets ready to embark on a new career flying mail and passengers in North Africa and, he hopes, forget the profound horrors that have shaped him. Soon, they will all have to reckon with one other: a terrible synthesis of those horrors, which moves among humanity with an inexorable and terrible purpose―obliterating and reshaping that humanity until there is only one thing left: Volk.

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Monstrous Affections

The 'Geisters

Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (The Book of the Juke Series)

Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination (The Book of the Juke Series)

Rasputin's Bastards

Knife Fight: And Other Struggles

Monstrous Affections: Stories

The 'Geisters

Knife Fight and Other Struggles

Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination (The Book of the Juke Series)