BOOK OF DAVID: Stories by MALLORY SMART (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
$20.00 / Coming Soon
PRE-ORDER a signed copy of Mallory Smart’s latest story collection, Book of David (House of Vlad Press), out October 2026!
IN THE MIDWEST, SURVIVAL MEANS IGNORING THE THINGS YOU MAYBE SHOULDN’T…
“Every reader who peers into the pitch-black maw of Book of David unwittingly surrenders and bears witness to a gospel of cruelty engraved in viciousness, darkness, and unrelenting rot. Bewildering and utterly breathtaking...”—ERIC LAROCCA, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Book of David, a true Midwest millennial horror classic of biblical proportions, traverses across collapsing suburbs, dingy roadside bars and truck stops, haunted railroad tracks, ominous movie-night watch parties, afterlife theme parks, cursed video stores, and forgotten towns where strange dreams, religious fanaticism, decay, and supernatural glitches bleed into everyday life. As stories and recurring figures begin overlapping, a darker pattern starts to emerge around a staticky presence moving through the rot named Dave, both witness and catalyst, who might be a vessel for whatever is waking up beneath the blood, dirt, and rust.
“Ouija boards, black cats, final girls... [Book of David] is both a late-night drive on a long, quiet highway and an instruction manual for ghosts... invoking a bleakness that is strangely beautiful.”—LAUREN MILICI, author of Sad Sexy Catholic
“Book of David creates a universe unto itself, one that feels both totally contemporary yet entirely primordial.”—JULIET ESCORIA, author of You Are the Snake
“Grief haunts this smart, unnerving collection where time refuses to move in a straight line...strikingly original...”—DUNCAN BIRMINGHAM, writer/director of Who Invited Them
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170 pages // Paperback
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MALLORY SMART is Editor-in-Chief of Maudlin House and host of the Textual Healing podcast, and her books include We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes (Thirty West Publishing, 2026), I Keep My Visions to Myself (WithanX Press, 2023), and The Only Living Girl in Chicago (Trident Press, 2021).
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