Adam McOmber teaches creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and is the associate editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. Stories from his collection, This New and Poisonous Air, have been shortlisted for Best American Fantasy and nominated for two Pushcart Prizes in 2012. Visit AdamMcOmber.com.
"This delightful, sometimes spooky, always intelligent and exciting
novel is truly a work of an imagination at the height of its (often
astonishing) powers. Adam McOmber takes us deep into a magical
world that resembles our own, one that is set in Victorian England,
which it's clear from page one was meticulously researched, and
doesn't release us until long after we read the last paragraph. . .
. The White Forest is a very satisfying, always suspenseful and
surprising page-turner . . . and beautifully written too. Adam
McOmber has offered us a work of fiction that is unlike any other I
have read, and I'm recommending it to every reader I know."
--Christine Sneed, author of Little Known Facts
"The White Forest drips with the dark and gothic chills of
Victorian London. Adam McOmber will keep you up nights with this
eerie tale that grafts mystery to myth. A spooky and original
novel."--Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child and Centuries of
June
"The White Forest reminds me of what I love about H.P. Lovecraft.
Adam McOmber's imagery is so visceral and strangely real, and his
story so inventive; a plain old narrative is hard enough to pull
off on its own, but creating a whole new world within the reality
of Victorian England? Wow."--Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish
"What other novelist could take a Victorian gothic setting, the
most obscure elements of medieval cosmology, a sinister secret
society, and an old-fashioned love triangle to produce, in tautly
elegant prose, something so delightful and utterly unique? The
White Forest is much more than a novel: it is a magic lantern,
casting dark and flickering pictures from other worlds. I wish I
had written it myself."--Camille DeAngelis, author of Petty Magic
and Mary Modern
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