Broken Eye Books

Welcome to the BROKEN EYE BOOKS Patreon—called Eyedolon. Here we build anthologies and serialized novels for Broken Eye Books, bringing you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction by blending genres and exploring and blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, fantasy, and weird fiction, of comedy and horror. Subscribe to help support our projects and read them each month as they're released. When finished, each project will be collected in print and digital formats and available to all.

Ongoing projects include serialized novels from Bogi Takács, Brandon O'Brien, Matthew M. Bartlett, and Andrew Penn Romine; a serialized collection from Joseph S. Pulver; and the urban weird anthology Nowhereville and the Welcome to Miskatonic University and It Came from Miskatonic University anthologies. 

Patrons get access to the following serialized fiction:

• The Song of Spores by Bogi Takács [parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8]
• How to Unmake It in Anglia by Brandon O'Brien [parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7]
• The Obsecration by Matthew M. Bartlett [parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6]
• The Night Museum by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. [parts 1 | 2]
• The Mosquito Fleet by Andrew Penn-Romine [parts 1 | 2 | 3]
• The Carnivàle by WC Dunlap [parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7]
• Hairsbreadth by Craig Laurance Gidney [parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7]
• Better Living through Alchemy by Evan J. Peterson [parts 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7]
• Neon Reliquary by Orrin Grey [parts 1 | 2 | 3]

(Click through the title for the press release and overview; click through the numbers following the title for each new installment.)

And novel(la)s:

• Queen of No Tomorrows by Matt Maxwell
• The Great Faerie Strike by Spencer Ellsworth (Stink Eye Books)
• Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise
• Busted Synapses by Erica L. Satifka
• Boneset & Feathers by Gwendolyn Kiste 

And anthologies. Cooties Shot Required: There Are Tings You Must Know, which will look at the strangeness and wonder of being a kid and of interacting with kids, will be collected in print in early 2021 :

• "A Perfect Hunger, a Certain Rage" by Damien Angelica Walters
• "Those Who Want Power" by Laurie Tom
• "Back Room" by Ada Hoffmann
• "An Elicitation of Thursdays" by Brian Hugenbruch
• "Room and Board Included, Demonology Extra" by Eden Royce
• "Everything as Part of Its Infinite Place" by Premee Mohamed
• "Eat the Rich" by DaVaun Sanders
• "All the Horrors, and the Hope You’ll Make Them Right" by Malon Edwards
• "The Makings of Broken Embers" by Eliza Chan
• "All the Things We Need to Kill SQUISSSHH" by Anya Martin
• "The Ancestry of Sin" by Haralambi Markov
• "Matchbox Daemons" by Nemma Wollenfang

Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird, an anthology of wierd and sci-fi tales of revolution both personal and societal, will be published here and collected in print in early 2021:

• "Salt Water to Wine" by WC Dunlap
• "Sacred She-Devil" by Craig Laurance Gidney
• "Sarah Memory: A Fragment of the Revolution" by Rachel Pollack
• "Wake" by Mary Anne Mohanraj
• "#wondercabinet" by Evan J. Peterson
• "Float Day" by S.B. Divya
• “The Nth International” by Nick Mamatas
• "Purity" by Nadia Bulkin
• "A Field, A Shadow, Indeed a Shadow" by Margaret Killjoy
• "A Technical Term, like Privilege" by Bogi Takács
• "The Mystery Watch" by Gerald L. Coleman

We have so far published through Eyedolon the following anthologies:

• Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird
• Cooties Shot Required: There Are Things You Must Know
• Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People
• Welcome to Miskatonic University
• It Came from Miskatonic University

Other stories:

• "I Went to the 6th Dimension, and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" by Sean M. Thompson

Serial fiction will be collected in ebook and print editions for patrons (depending on tier) and available to non-patrons when complete. Through our various patron tiers, advance release editions of our other titles (such as novels and novellas) are also available to patrons.

We just wrapped up the Kickstarter for our anthology Welcome to Miskatonic University (and you can still pre-order at the inked BackerKit), and you can read one of its stories, "Some Muses Are Not Gentle" by Brandon O'Brien (available to non-patrons).

WEIRD FICTION

We are publishing weird fiction. These are the stories that take place in the realms between science fiction and fantasy, between the realistic and the absurd. This is the weird and its borders with other genres:

• It must be speculative fiction.
• It need not be horror. At its core, weird fiction is the unknown. That sits very well as warding off the shadows—or horror—but beyond the grotesque, it reaches clear to the ecstatic with stopovers at all modes in between, such as at the comedic and the slice of life.
• As a landscape, speculative fiction exists on a spectrum with other genres and at times shares their borders. These frontiers are evershifting.
• The weird sits in an "uncanny valley" of realism, snug between the impossibility of fantasy and the certitude of science fiction.

In "Toward a Weirder Tomorrow" and "In Weird Times" we dissect this in a bit more detail. We are publishing, in no particular order, dark fantasy, cosmic horror, fabulism, folk horror, magical realism, slipstream, "soft" science fiction, supernatural horror, and surrealism. In short, weird fiction and where it borders with science fiction and fantasy:


Closed for submissions until we process what we have.


Thank you for your support!

Broken Eye Books is an independent press based in Seattle, here to bring you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction. Our stories tend to blend genres, blurring the boundaries of sci-fi, fantasy, and the weird.

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