If there really were angels, special magical beings living over us, would we want to worship them? Author Chris Panatier seems to have asked himself that question before. In Rapture Publishing’s upcoming novel Daytide our world sits opposite the firmament. On the other side is Olea, the world of Jugularis, or what we would call angels. Make no mistake, Olea is not Heaven, and the drunken, selfish, violent, pop culture-obsessed “gleaners” that inhabit it are anything but holy. The book...

“How do we know who we are without others to reflect our personhood back at us?”  Literary author Quan Barry’s new novel The Unveiling is a psychological horror story set on an abandoned Antarctic island, where the surreal unsetting sun and blistering white environment slowly strips the cast of marooned vacationers of their identities.  Past blends with present, time becomes meaningless, and reality becomes as slippery as the ice.  The Unveiling gestures at an unsettling solipsism that is...

“If you can give the kids a good time then that’s all it’s for. Forget art and all that – that’s bullshit. If you can send that shiver...