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About the Author

Adam McOmber is the author of five novels and three story collections exploring the intersections of desire, mystery, and the Gothic tradition. He serves as Co-Chair of the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Editor-in-Chief of Hunger Mountain Review, and Director of the VCFA Writers' Conference at California Institute of the Arts.

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Critical Praise

"A sinuous, antiquated style proves marvelously effective in these dark and imaginative tales."

Publishers Weekly — Starred Review

"A sexy, twisty, and creatively imagined revision… a gothic triumph."

Kirkus Reviews GET IT

"A moody, gothic tale full of hypnotizing twists and turns that transports readers to a world that is part real, part fantasy."

Chicago Sun-Times

Selected Works

Novels and collections exploring the Gothic, the dark, and the uncanny

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Adam McOmber - book cover

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Lethe Press • 2022

A Gothic reimagining of Conan Doyle's classic where Alexander Grayson seeks his vanished lover in Baskerville Hall, uncovering dark rituals and forbidden histories. Kirkus Reviews calls it a "GET IT."

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Fantasy Kit

Black Lawrence Press • 2022

Strange and sometimes horrific stories that could draw comparison to Angela Carter or Edgar Allan Poe—fairy tales and myths traveling through mazes of space and time, each creeping through the mind long after the last page.

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Jesus and John

Lethe Press • 2020

A reimagining of the New Testament as allegorical horror—a fisherman tasked with protecting the risen body of Christ is led on a dangerous pilgrimage to a mysterious Roman mansion. Booklist calls it "atmospheric and thought-provoking."

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