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Allison Mick

@allison_mick

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funny lady horror writer from the great lakes
author of HUMBOLDT CUT 🌲🪓 DIVE 🩸🎤 and DARK WAVES 🖤🌊
books @agentbakerbooks
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“A truly spooky book about some truly spooky lakes. Naturally, I loved it. 10/10 spookies” —Geo Rutherford, New York Times Bestselling author of Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet

Two sisters escaping foster care encounter the natural--and supernatural--entities of the North American Great Lakes on an otherworldly quest homeward to the matriarchal commune where they were raised in this Gothic eco-horror novel for fans of Catriona Ward, Kay Chronister, and Vincent Tirado.
The Great Lakes: Huron. Ontario. Michigan. Erie. Superior. Their waters teem with life. Humans have taken advantage of their natural resources for generations. After being poached, polluted, and poisoned for centuries, they have survived, forced to coexist with the toxicity that has tainted them. Thousands of sailors have lost their lives to shipwrecks on the lakes. In the winter, the lakes are at their most angry, and their most powerful. Shipwrecking storms and ravenous vampire fish are just the beginning.

Amidst this setting, teenage sisters Sylvie and Marie-Ève George run away from their foster home and stow away on a Great Lakes bulk freighter, kicking off a supernatural odyssey. The girls grew up isolated from society, on a secluded island on the St. Lawrence River. But after the government removes them from their mother's care, Sylvie and Marie-Ève will do anything to get back home, including journeying 1,500 miles across the lakes. They face dangerous smugglers, foul-mouthed sailors, a matriarchal cult of witches--and the everpresent threat of the lakes.

Nature remembers, and it doesn't forgive. Mr. Martin Williams, an industrialist with investment in every part of the lakes, has employed the George family for generations. His crimes against the Great Lakes are never forgotten, and trickle down through his bloodline. His choices ripple outward through time all the way to Sylvie and Marie-Ève.

About the haunting journey to find family and a place to call home, Allison Mick's Dark Waves is a supernatural adventure combining the social commentary of Octavia Butler and the multigenerational family drama of T. Kingfisher's The Twis by @allison_mick

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Musicians, comedians, fans, and vampires collide in Allison Mick's DIVE. In this collection of genre-blending horror stories, artists of all kinds circle the drain of The Liz, a legendary punk bar.

Welcome to The Liz, a once-great dive bar in Oakland where nothing is what it seems. The bartenders moonlight as medical test subjects, taking an experimental 💊 that makes them crave art and the people who make it. Book a BusyBunny gig babysitting for the local rock star's 🔪 children. Avoid the ⚗️🗞 that causes ghostly carnage and the joke that kills every cop who hears it. Along with the regular 😈 that lurk in a scene, you gotta beware the vampires. They'll drain your 🩸but worse they'll talk your ear off. by @allison_mick

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Humboldt Cut got a great review in @reactorsff and I wanna shout it from the treetops! 🌲🌲🌲 by @allison_mick

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Did you like Digger? Did you hate it? Did you not see it but still have an opinion somehow? You'll be happy to know that Digger and DIVE both have a lot to say about the effective power of art. 🔥

DIVE comes out in exactly one month and I could not be more excited. I hope you preorder it from @tenebrouspress before then and we can all enjoy my dumb little drawings and all the pop punk song names I made up for it.

Link to my substie newsletter is in my stories because if I get it put here the algo will tank the post 😭 by @allison_mick

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Had a great time moderating a panel about Ecology Horror with the Redwood Gothic crew Allison Mick, Joshua Millican, and Bitter Karella at Underdog Books! It was a fantastic conversation, and so great to invite the curious individuals of Monrovia into our creepy world. Thank you @underdogbookstore for hosting and everyone who attended! by @allison_mick

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That which is punk shall eternal lie, yet even after aeons and waves of corporate sellouts, even Punk may die. @allison_mick coming in hard this November with a reality warping, perspective twisting collection of stories.

DIVE 5 💀s

I say there needs to be a full cast audio adaptation, with @realbayareamemes playing random characters.

Pre order it from @tenebrouspress
Out November 17th.
#arcreview #booksta #horrorreads #allisonmick
#bookreview by @allison_mick

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preorder DARK WAVES 🖤🌊

Far from home, sisters stow away on a freighter ship and kick off a supernatural odyssey across the Great Lakes. Gothic and gritty, this eco horror dredges the lakes' history and ecology to weave a gripping tale about identity, belonging, and sisterhood.

#bookstagram #horrorbookstagram #ecohorror by @allison_mick

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Join us at Underdog Bookstore for an Ecology Horror Tour panel featuring authors Joshua Millican, Bitter Karella, and Allison Mick, moderated by Eve Harms 🖤

🗓 Friday, October 9th from 6-8PM
📍312 S Myrtle Ave, Monrovia

@joshua_millican is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz where he earned degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing. He is a journalist (Dread Central), an actor (Cannibal Comedian), and an active member of the HWA. Millican’s best-known works of fiction include Teleportasm (Killer VHS Series #3) and Chopping Mall: The Novelization. His latest novel, Dopefoot, is a gory cryptid mystery released June 16th, 2026 via Mad Axe Media.

@bitterkarella is a genderfluid transvestite goblin, who writes gonzo psycho-sexual body horror with a grotesquely humorous edge. His short story “Low Tide Jenny,” originally published in Seize the Press magazine, was a winner of the Brave New Weird award for best new weird fiction of 2022 by Tenebrous Press. Her work has also appeared in Bag of Bones’ “Step into the Light,” Tenebrous Press’ “Your Body is Not Your Body,” Ghoulish Books’ “Bound in Flesh,” and From Beyond Press’ “This World Belongs to Us.” Their first novel, Moonflow, is now available from Orbit’s new horror imprint Run For It.

@allison_mick is a Los Angeles-based writer on the comedy-horror spectrum. She is the author of the eco-horror novel HUMBOLDT CUT and the upcoming story collection DIVE (Nov 2026, Tenebrous Press). Her writing also appears in Trailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection (Devil’s Due Comics) and The Hard Times: The First 40 Years (Mariner Books).

@eveharmswrites is a writer of horror, exploitation, and bizarro fiction. Her trans body horror novella TRANSMUTED was featured in Sadie Hartman’s award-winning book 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered. In addition to her love for storytelling, her belief in art and the power of self-expression feeds her passion for zines, the creative commons, and the work of independent creators. She currently resides in the Los Angeles area with her children’s book illustrator partner and two cats.

#EcologyHorror #EcoHorror #HorrorCommunity #HorrorAuthors taken in Underdog Bookstore by @allison_mick

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Hey spooky #horror #ecohorror #folkhorror lovers! If you're in the Los Angeles area, come through @villagewellcc on 10/10 to talk spooky forests, poison mushrooms, Pacific Northwest horror, and whether Bigfoot is real or not.
🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲💀💀💀💀🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄 by @allison_mick

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Fight book bans, meet a new favorite author, and support your community 📚🏳️‍🌈🐶

💛 Tuesday: 1PM-6PM

🧡 Wednesday: 1PM-6PM

❤️ Thursday: 1PM-8PM
6PM: Postcard Party with @cblee_cblee @sofiaxaguilar @kellyrnelsonstoryteller @kandrewturner

💚 Friday: 10AM-8PM
6PM: Ecology Horror Tour with @joshua_millican @bitterkarella @allison_mick @eveharmswrites

💙 Saturday: 10AM-8PM
10AM: Banned Books Read-In
12PM: Drag Story Hour with @lilmisshotmess

💜 Sunday: 11AM-7PM
11AM: Mutual Aid Pop-Up
2PM: Manifestation Journaling
4PM: Authors in Conversation @doctorjonpaul & @rayzhon

Please donate if you can for Sunday's Mutual Aid Pop-Up, or children’s books and treats for this year's Halloween event 👻

#IndieBookstore #OldTownMonrovia #SupportIndie #ShopLocal #BannedBooksWeek taken in Underdog Bookstore by @allison_mick

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IT'S HERE! THE LONG-AWAITED SPREADSHEET MEGA POST. FREE SPREADSHEETS TO HELP WITH YOUR WRITING. JOIN MY SPREADSHEET CULT! by @allison_mick

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🗓️ Swipe for my anticipated Black Horror Book Releases still to come! 🗓️

I LOVED There Used to Be People Here!

Looking forward to Chimera Skin which I'm starting soon.

I feel like I've been waiting for long form from @pegasusunder for a thousand years so I'm pumped up for this one!

Also looking forward to a good haunting because the Caribbean gothic ofc.

Excited for @allison_mick's short story collection as well as this Black horror collection 😎.

There are two future podcast guests on this list, drop your guesses in the comments.

Want more Black horror? Hit repost and share with someone who needs this. by @allison_mick

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