illustration by Echo Echo; cover design by Matt Blairstone
This April, Tenebrous Press releases its first novella of 2022! We wanted something that really embodies our aesthetic of New Weird Horror for our maiden voyage, and boy howdy do I think we nailed it.
About One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve:
Two halves of a human cadaver awaken on a cold morgue slab. The two distinct personalities, Left and Right, remember nothing of their previous life as a singular body. Bound by necessity to carve out an existence on the fringes of society, the two brothers have very different ideas of the life they want. Their impending schism will lead each on his own frightening path; one forward to a new life, one backward to the origin of their struggle.
One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve is a Weird and surreal Body Horror journey that redefines familial bonds and what it means to be an individual.
About the Author:
M. Shaw is a graduate of the Clarion Writers' Workshop (class of 2019) and an organizer of the Denver Mercury Poetry Slam. They live in Arvada, Colorado. Whatever you're reading, they probably wrote it in an empty art museum after midnight.