This New & Poisonous Air
Description
Written in the New Wave Fabulist tradition, these historically-grounded stories blend the fantastic and the macabre in astonishing, unforgettable ways.
Praise for This New & Poisonous Air
"A sinuous, antiquated style proves marvelously effective in these dark and imaginative tales by author McOmber."
Publishers Weekly
"A journey through this collection feels like an afternoon peering over the dustiest shelves of a museum of curiosities. I felt studious, peculiar, and intrigued."
A CAPPELLA ZOO
"The ten stories in [McOmber's] debut collection This New & Poisonous Air are remarkable not only for their aesthetic (a thoroughly new combination of the dark and the weird) but also for the consistent quality of their writing, which allows McOmber to credibly transport his readers across both time and lines of belief."
Arts&Letters
McOmber does an excellent job of creating multilayer characters, all somehow ill-at-ease in the situations in which they find themselves thrustThe stories themselves aren’t as dark or grim as I would have thought, given the comparisons to Poe, but beneath each runs a subtext that a darkness resides in us all.”Historical Novel Society