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Nicole Cushing
Nicole Cushing is a writer of dark, weird fiction (often accompanied with a side dish of humor). Based in southeastern Indiana, many of her books evoke the grim strangeness of Midwestern life.
Her debut Mr. Suicide (2015) won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her novellas Children of No One (2012) and The Sadist’s Bible (2016) received nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award. Her novel A Sick Gray Laugh (2019) was named to LitReactor’s Ten Best Horror Novels of the Last Decade list and the Locus Recommended Reading List.
Her work has been translated into Czech, German, and Italian.
2024 Genre Shortlist: The Plastic Priest
When the soul has been thoroughly poisoned, the body must abandon it. Everything feels unreal afterwards, but plastic heads shed no tears. Bram Stoker Award winning author Nicole Cushing offers an excursion into the Weird, an eerie tale of an Episcopal priest in small town Indiana, and her struggles with fate and faith.
