Red Skies in the Morning (Nadia Bulkin)
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Red Skies in the Morning, a new novella by Nadia Bulkin, with cover art by Leslé Kieu. Cover design by Michaela Waltz.
Paracontagions infect unsuspecting viewers of certain media. They are gruesomely fatal within seven days, unless passed along to volunteers down a continuous path of temporary hosts. Pathing agent Selene must confront the realities of this new normal when her younger sister goes missing.
Early praise for Red Skies in the Morning:
"RED SKIES IN THE MORNING by Nadia Bulkin is ingenious, funny, infuriating, disturbing, scary, heartbreaking. It's a story that only she could write."
— Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie
“Nadia Bulkin delivers a hauntingly intense novella in which indelible evils and humanity’s impending annihilation coalesce in a shadowy world of terror and uncertainty. Red Skies in the Morning is a gripping exploration of the visual, virulent, and visceral horrors that connect us in an increasingly disconnected society, seared onto the page with Bulkin’s incandescent and unflinching style.”
— Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island
"Nadia Bulkin is required reading."
— Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light (Stories)
"Nadia Bulkin's Red Skies in the Morning is so hauntingly beautiful and wicked weird...you can't miss it! Ghosts possessing the living through cursed movies and polaroids, check! Cults dedicated to the spread and worship of said cursed movies, check! Two sisters bleakly entwined in a collapsing world not so different from our own, check! I spend my life searching for reads like this one. You won't be disappointed!"
— Corey Farrenkopf, author of Living in Cemeteries
“The work of a genius. Original, arresting—I immediately fell in love with this tech-horror world menaced by psychic disease and Video Man. Bulkin smoothly blends her talent at societal dissection and a tale of strained familial bonds into a unique vision of urban legend as contagion. A truly one-of-a-kind book.”
— Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth
“A fascinating, heartbreaking novella built on impending doom and terrifyingly realistic ideas plucked from the near-future. The dread is so thick you can choke on it. Do not look away. Do not close your eyes.”
— Max Booth III, author of We Need To Do Something
Nadia Bulkin is the author of the short story collection She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017). She is also the co-editor of the haunted house anthology Why Didn't You Just Leave (Cursed Morsels, 2024). She has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award five times; she won a 2023 Bram Stoker Award for her non-fiction essay "Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia." Her short stories have been included in editions of The Best Horror of the Year, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and Year's Best Weird Fiction.
Nadia grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia with her Javanese father and American mother, before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a longtime fan of Ring by Koji Suzuki, to whom this novella is in debt. She has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, D.C., but can be found @nadiabulkin on social media.
Leslé Kieu is a horror comic artist and illustrator, with an interest in scary creatures and body horror. They're currently working on their own webcomic Dust n Dread, and when they're not drawing, they're playing DDR and PS2 games.
102 pages. Limited edition of 150 copies.
