Happy Halloween! And also happy one week of existence to Open All Night and Greater Than His Nature!
A word of advice to any aspiring publishers out there? Don’t put out your first two books simultaneously. It’s fun and it fosters a greater community and you’ve got two books at the end instead of one, but it’s also, like, twice the work. And that much easier to get ISBNs and other random information wires crossed — or, y’know, announcement posts — when you’re trying to share them.
Anyway. Collected here, for the first time, all the information about Atomic Carnival Books’ Year One anthologies Greater Than His Nature and Open All Night. Back-cover blurbs, editor’s notes, the aforementioned ISBNS, everything a person could possibly want when deciding to buy some books.
Which, y’know, please do. For all my grumbling, this was a blast and we turned out some great books with some great authors and I really, really want to do it again next year. But that’s putting the cart before the horse, which I guess doesn’t work? I don’t know. I’m not a horse person. I make books.
Greater Than His Nature
ISBN 979-8-98845-200-3
Publication Date Oct. 24, 2023
In every laboratory, every experiment, there are two diametrical energies at play: chaos and control. The raw pandemonium of what is, and the diamond-sheen of what could be. And in between? Blood, bones, and broken hearts. Because no equation, no solution, will ever be able to contain the wild entropy of the human soul.
Within these pages, you’ll find reverse mermaids and murder-spiders and bloated flesh-monsters tearing down the Golden Gate Bridge. A nurse waving a patient into a haunted MRI machine. A reimagined Mary Shelley obsessing about her galvanic guy. The dead will come back, organs will grow where you least expect them, and “healthy” will be outed as a disease all its own, the most damning by a long mile.
Because, like the highest-born hopes of bodies sacrificed to progress, like the darkest dreams of the brains behind the beakers, mad science truly knows no bounds.
Featuring new fiction from Katharine Duckett, A.T. Greenblatt, Ally Malinenko, Tyler Battaglia, Samantha H. Chung, Jonathan Fortin, Brianna Nicole Frentzko, Josh Hanson, Wade Hunter, M.W. Irving, Pooja Joshi, Andrew Kozma, K.L. Mill, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Zachary Rosenberg, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Violet Schwegler, and Nicole M. Wolverton. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.
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Open All Night
ISBN 979-8-98845-202-7
Publication Date Oct. 24, 2023
The witching hour. The graveyard shift. Whether it’s ghosts and gremlins or simply folks with nowhere else to go, the middle of the night has never been for the faint of heart. But what happens when the ones only there for the paycheck bump into the ones out for blood?
Midnight turns the normal strange and makes the strange normal. Within these pages, you’ll find diners and doppelgangers and dead sisters, old gods and creatures of the night coming to hurt-and help-in equal measure.
Featuring 17 stories of retail horror from J.A.W. McCarthy, Danger Slater, Lydia Bugg, Nathan Crowder, Megan Kiekel Anderson, Russ Bickerstaff, Tom Brennan, Laura Garrison, Shanna Germain, Elena Greer, Rik Hoskin, L.S. Johnson, Amanda Cecelia Lang, Steve Loiaconi, Zachary Rosenberg, Bailee Smith-Garcia, and Patrick Tumblety. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.
