There’s something in the basement…
“ Silkworm is a silky smooth, roundabout course to the heart of Nesmer's artistic philosophy - and that is: new, new, new! You wont ever catch him treading the same ground.” -
“…grotesque, but gripping narrative of life in war time. Ogden Nesmer is the up-and-coming writer to keep your eye on.” - (Winner of The Passage Prize)
On Sale Now Through March 9, 2025
The black smog of war creeps over the horizon. Every day the front inches closer, preceded by sulfurous fumes and explosions, and the smell of money is in the air. As the best arms dealer in the business, Gilly should be thriving in these worst of times. But he can’t relax: professional success only brings more confusion, his new boss is hiding something sinister, and the girl he admires won’t bother to remember his name. Still, none of this compares to the mystery of what lurks under his floorboards. A menacing creature— or is it? Does it live? Undoubtedly it hungers, with an insatiable appetite for blood. Soon the question of what Gilly will do with it takes a back seat to the worry of what it will do with Gilly…
From Unreal Press and the author of Eggplant and I Pray to the Hungry God comes Silkworm, a story of horror and adventure, of unknowable eldritch beasts and the last hopes for humanity that glimmer through apocalypse.
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