Stephen Michell is a Canadian writer based in Southern Ontario. He has published short fiction in various magazines and journals, and his short story "As Worlds Collide" was featured on the podcast LeVar Burton Reads. Only the Devil Is Here is his debut novel. Find out more about Michell on Goodreads and at stephenmichell.com.
"A very promising debut." -Toronto Star
"Subtly upends expectations with a genuinely insightful examination
of the essence of good and evil. By the novel's end, Michell
delivers an invigorating chase story, a suspenseful horror-action
hybrid with memorably warped characters, and terrific B-movie
cinematic flair." -Publishers Weekly
"A gripping, cinematic supernatural thriller, shot through with
unsettling imagery and startling insights into the nature of good
and evil. Suspenseful, scary and unexpectedly moving, it's a wild
ride from start to finish." -David Demchuk, Giller Prize-nominated
author of The Bone Mother
"With Only the Devil Is Here, Stephen Michell announces
himself as a new and powerful presence on the literary horror
scene. This is curt, violent, poetic storytelling, a Cormac
McCarthyesque journey from darkness into even deeper darkness,
suffused from moment one on with gothic nighttime awe and terror
yet also shot through with the slimmest threads of hope-intimations
of numinosity, if not of salvation. For all you probably won't like
where it takes you, it's just so damn hard to turn away." -Gemma
Files, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Experimental
Film
"An outstanding literary horror debut, the lean, muscular prose of
which barely contains the bursting, profoundly human heart of the
novel. Only the Devil Is Here is the work of a natural
storyteller at the start of what will doubtless be a very long,
very promising career." -Michael Rowe, award-winning author of
Enter, Night; Wild Fell; and October
"A breathless debut that moves too fast to accommodate bulky
backstory. As such, the true nature of the characters, their
origins or intentions, are only ever glimpsed. Who's good? Who's
evil? Is the division between one and the other really so neat?
Michell keeps the details the idiomatic abode of both God and the
Devil elusive. It's in that murky moral unknown that Only the
Devil Is Here thrives." -Bookshelf
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