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Everywhere Is a Horror Story

Author: Kurt Fawver

Cover Art: Vergvoktre
Publication Date: August 25, 2026
Published by: Grimscribe Press
308 pp.

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Synopsis

Chaos and violence lurk in every corner of the world: under the desks in a school classroom, in the gentle breeze on a spring day, between the branches of a Christmas tree, even in the backseat of your car. The universe is a machine of unmaking, and nowhere can you escape its unraveling hands. In Shirley Jackson Award-winning author Kurt Fawver’s Everywhere Is a Horror Story, this ubiquity of terror is on full display. From a cannibal cult in a hidden valley and spectral children in the water pipes of a new home to a boardroom meeting for planning the apocalypse and a murderous story in your own hands, Fawver’s new collection of chilling, cerebral tales proves that, indeed, everywhere really is a horror story.


About the Author

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Two-time Shirley Jackson Award winner, Kurt Fawver, is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes between the cracks of genre. His stories have also been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Fawver is the author of three previous collections, The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press), Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications), and We Are Happy, We Are Doomed (Grimscribe Press). He lives in the rustlands of northeastern Ohio where he teaches writing and literature at a community college. You can find him online on Facebook or at kurtfawver.com.


Praise for Kurt Fawver

“Kurt Fawver is one of the most innovative and unique voices to emerge in weird fiction in the last decade… Highly recommended.”
— Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals

“If we’re talking about Thomas Ligotti and Michael Cisco, we need to be talking about Kurt Fawver.”
— Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase

“This is the most disturbing part of Kurt Fawver’s expertly drawn, densely detailed, and philosophical stories—the ineffectuality of humans, individually or collectively, in the face of a great cosmic mystery. No matter how intelligent we are, no matter how lofty or how mundane our intentions, we are no match for the universe.”
— S. P. Miskowski, author of I Wish I Was Like You

”[Fawver’s] singular vision crosses back and forth across the thin boundary separating the absurd from the horrific, creating amalgamations that are as bizarre as they are unnerving. Kurt Fawver has staked a claim in the genre that’s all his own.”
— Simon Strantzas, author of Nothing is Everything

“Fawver is an absolute master of the strange fable.”
— Christopher Slatsky, author of The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature

“Kurt Fawver traffics in dark allegories, deeply strange fables, and the boldly outré. He’s a true original, a treasure.”
— Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination

“Kurt Fawver’s stories are nasty little shockers that dare to dream big. And he isn’t afraid to follow those big and totally mad ideas through to their horrific conclusions.”
— Paul Tremblay, Author of Survivor Song

“Kurt Fawver’s tales are gruesome and poignant.”
— Richard Gavin, Author of grotesquerie

“Fawver has an original, and at times twisted, imagination. He is also a great stylist, and has that rare ability of layering his fiction with philosophical and symbolic meaning which blends effortlessly with the visceral text.”
— C.M. Muller, CthonicMatte

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