This month I’m speaking to Caleb Bethea about their debut novel Disco Murder City, published by Maudlin House this September. This is a seductive, trippy story soaked in blood and sequins. Murder City is a nightmarish world where sleep paralysis demons stalk the dancefloor, committing extreme acts of violence in the nightclubs of this metropolis….
Month: August 2025
Z.D. Dochterman Reviews “In the Dream, He Is Skinless and Beautiful” by Spencer Nitkey
Recommending a single story is a bit of an impossible task for me, since I’ve been reading so much short fiction I admire this past year. So I’m going to bend the rules a little bit and mention three authors who I assume many Seize the Press readers will be familiar before making my final…
Interview with John Chrostek, author of Feast of the Pale Leviathan
John Chrostek’s debut novel Feast of the Pale Leviathan is published on the 26th August by Deep Overstock Books. It is a dark fantasy adventure story about Owen, a man who drifts out to sea and finds himself trapped in the belly of a giant Leviathan-esque kaiju. Within the belly of the beast he discovers…