Strange is the Night

Over cocktails an executive describes to a friend the disturbing history of a strangely potent guardian angel. A young mom tries to perfect and prolong her daughter’s childhood with obsessive parenting. A critic’s petty denouncement of an ingénue’s performance leads to a theatrical night of reckoning. A cult member makes nice for a parole board hearing years after committing an infamous crime... A multiple Shirley Jackson Award nominee and 2017 Bram Stoker Award nominee, S.P. Miskowski serves up an uncompromising collection of thirteen modern tales of desire and self-destruction."...a strong collection of stories, a volume that effectively showcases the range and talent of one of the most original and distinctive new voices on the scene." - Peter Tennant, Black Static

From the Inside Flap

"With this stunningly ambitious collection, S.P. Miskowski juggles a wide range of voices, creating narratives that range from quietly doom-laden 'strange stories' in the Aickmanesque mold to sharp, vicious and entirely contemporary fare like its titular tale, in which a snarky theatre critic's comeuppance is delivered via Robert W. Chambers' King in Yellow mythos. Even her most subtle work has a thread of pure dread running through it, engaging and creeping readers out in equal measure from start to finish." - Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of EXPERIMENTAL FILM

From the Back Cover

"My favorite purveyors of dark fiction are those authors who don't just provide shocks or gross-outs, but who craft deceptive little tales that leave you still unnerved a day, a week, or a year later. M. R. James did that. Dennis Etchison does that. And now S.P. Miskowski joins their ranks with this fine collection. Be prepared to be disturbed by these stories for a long, long time." - Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE SAMHANACH AND OTHER HALLOWEEN TREATS

About the Author

S.P. Miskowski is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her stories have been published in Supernatural Tales, Black Static, Identity Theory, Strange Aeons and Eyedolon Magazine, and in numerous anthologies including Haunted Nights, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, October Dreams 2, Autumn Cthulhu, The Hyde Hotel, Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell, Tales from a Talking Board, and Looming Low. Her novel I Wish I Was Like You won This Is Horror 2017 Novel of the Year. Her books have received three Shirley Jackson Award nominations and a Bram Stoker Award nomination, and are available from Omnium Gatherum Media and JournalStone/Trepidatio.

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