Preorders open for LURE by Tim McGregor

Folk Horror fans, rejoice: Tim McGregor’s Lure is set to make a splash on July 18th, and preorders are available now!

About Lure:

In the chapel of a forsaken fishing village on another world's shore, the seawashed bones of old gods hang from the rafters.

When a new god drifts into the bay, the menfolk fear nothing as they reach for their spears; but capturing Her may be their last act of reckless bravado. Her very presence brings dissent and madness. Her voice threatens to tear the starving, angry community apart. 

Setting a siege of relentless horror against the backdrop of brine and blood, Lure blurs the line between natural disaster and self-destruction.


Praise for Lure:

"Immersive and utterly compelling, Tim McGregor's Lure will stab you in the heart with a hook and plunge you deep into the blackest depths where sunlight cannot follow. A monstrously inventive seaside fable of tradition, adolescence, and loss."

  • Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Lure: an appropriate title for a novella that gripped me hook, line and sinker. Evocative of the sea, with the feel of a folktale, Tim McGregor’s talent for subtlety is bewitching; but when it berths, the horror is visceral.” 

  • Catherine McCarthy, author of Immortelle

"Tightly told, with great tension and pacing; an eerie tale with great social commentary. It's fantastic and stands apart from the crowd." 

  • Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and Below


Tim McGregor is the author of Hearts Strange and Dreadful, the Spookshow series, and a handful of other titles. Taboo in Four Colors comes out in November. Tim lives in Toronto with his wife, two kids, and one spiteful ghost. He can be reached at timmcgregorauthor.com.

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.

Featuring lush interior illustrations by Kelly Williams.

Preorder Lure today.

YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY available now

“Every story is a finely-honed scalpel poised to carve new pathways of perception on the meat of your mind.”

-M. Belanger, from their introduction

A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club.

Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways.

A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness...and abundant body horror.

A stellar cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star before the mission devolves into a panoply of psychedelic orgies.

A doxxed teen falls victim to violent assault and dishes out some harrowing retribution of their own.

Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming creators unite to voice their rage, and the rules of conventional Horror go out the f$%&ing window in this collection featuring murderous pleasure-bots; proselytizing zombies; acid-filled alien cops; science run amok; sorcerers, ghouls, cannibals...and that barely scratches the grave-dirt.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by M. Belanger

The Flensing Lens—LC von Hessen

Tonsilstonespunksplatter666!—Rain Corbyn

High Maintenance—S.A. Chant

The Infinite Being—F. Tullia Catulla

Brother Maternitas—Viktor Athelstan

The Same Thing That Happened to Sam—M. Lopes da Silva

Ballad of the Pest—Meagan Hotz

Playing House—Ziggy Schutz

Hybrid—Rose Sable

Cholesterol-Monoxide—W.N. Derring-Judith

Why We Keep Exploding—Hailey Piper

We've Been Trying to Reach You—Charles Maria Tor

Lost in Reincarnation—Devaki Devay

Because My Mother Tells Me So—Dayna Ingram

Seaflowers—Ori Jay

Fencing Chestplate—Avi Burton

Gender Envy—Gabriel Valentine

Rest, my head.—Cosmin-Mihai Bîrsan

The Divine Carcass—Bitter Karella

Chironoplasty—Joe Koch

#MOTHERMAYHEM—Jei D. Marcade

The Lives of Scavengers—Rhiannon Rasmussen

The Simulacrum—Max Turner

The Roots They Pull—Taylor J. Pitts

Stench—Vincent Endwell

The Pearl Diver—Bri Crozier

Tiny Magic—G.E. Woods


Cover art by:

Mx Morgan G Robles


Featuring illustrations by:

Harrison Webb

Lex

Lillian Hochwender

Becca Snow

Rieroo

Cori Walters

William Taylor


Proceeds from this anthology go to Equality Texas to combat the attempts of the Texas government to criminalize Trans youth.


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Cover Art Reveal: LURE

Tim McGregor’s lush, moody novella of New Weird FOLK Horror, Lure, arrives this July via Tenebrous Press! For fans of Caitlin R. Kiernan and China Mieville, and the films of Robert Eggers (The VVitch, The Lighthouse, The Northman), Lure will plunge you into a world both vaguely familiar and wholly alien.

About Lure:

In the chapel of a forsaken fishing village on another world's shore, the seawashed bones of old gods hang from the rafters.

When a new god drifts into the bay, the menfolk fear nothing as they reach for their spears; but capturing Her may be their last act of reckless bravado. Her very presence brings dissent and madness. Her voice threatens to tear the starving, angry community apart. 

Setting a siege of relentless horror against the backdrop of brine and blood, Lure blurs the line between natural disaster and self-destruction.

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.

Preorder info coming soon!

Complete Table of Contents: YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY

YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY

Table of Contents

The Flensing Lens—LC von Hessen

Tonsilstonespunksplatter666!—Rain Corbyn

High Maintenance—S.A. Chant

The Infinite Being—F. Tullia Catulla

Brother Maternitas—Viktor Athelstan

The Same Thing That Happened to Sam—M. Lopes da Silva

Ballad of the Pest—Meagan Hotz

Playing House—Ziggy Schutz

Hybrid—Rose Sable

Cholesterol-Monoxide—W.N. Derring-Judith

Why We Keep Exploding—Hailey Piper

We've Been Trying to Reach You—Charles Maria Tor

Lost in Reincarnation—Devaki Devay

Because My Mother Tells Me So—Dayna Ingram

Seaflowers—Ori Jay

Fencing Chestplate—Avi Burton

Gender Envy—Gabriel Valentine 

Rest, my head.—Cosmin-Mihai Bîrsan

The Divine Carcass—Bitter Karella

Chironoplasty—Joe Koch

#MOTHERMAYHEM—Jei D. Marcade

The Lives of Scavengers—Rhiannon Rasmussen

The Simulacrum—Max Turner

The Roots They Pull—Taylor J. Pitts

Stench—Vincent Endwell

The Pearl Diver—Bri Crozier

Tiny Magic—G.E. Woods

Cover art by:

Mx Morgan G Robles

Featuring illustrations by:

Harrison Webb

Lex

Lillian Hochwender

Becca Snow

Rieroo

Cori Walters

William Taylor


Release date info coming soon! Preorder YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY here.