Broken Eye Books is publishing the collected fiction of S.P. Miskowski’s Skillute Cycle. This omnibus edition collects four previously published works—the novel Knock Knock and the novellas Delphine Dodd, Astoria, and In the Light—along with a brand-new novelette.
Late 1960s in the backwater town of Skillute, WA. Three bored young girls unwittingly unleash a malevolent spirit. The girls and the townsfolk will never be the same.
The Complete Skillute Cycle by S.P. Miskowski will be available in 2025. Stay tuned for more information.
S.P. Miskowski is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, for literature and for drama. Her books have been recognized with four Shirley Jackson Award nominations and two Bram Stoker Award nominations. Her stories have appeared in many anthologies including Haunted Nights, Human Monsters, Looming Low I and II, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, Uncertainties III, October Dreams 2, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 10, and Darker Companions: 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell, and in magazines including Identity Theory, Black Static, Vastarien, Supernatural Tales, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Her grunge noir novel I Wish I Was Like You was named This Is Horror “Novel of the Year 2017” and received a Charles Dexter Award from the readers of Strange Aeons.
Praise for the Skillute Cycle
"... a fascinating meditation on the nature of horror." (Molly Tanzer, author of A Pretty Mouth, on Knock Knock)
"... the story achieves a momentum all its own, rushing headlong to a shattering finale, and the prose, which Miskowski uses with such care and accuracy throughout, in the final pages attains a fever dream intensity." (Peter Tennant for Black Static, reviewing Knock Knock)
"... not only expands and illuminates the tragedy in the brilliant novel, Knock Knock, but also further proves Miskowski possesses that talent most enviable in a writer: she makes you BELIEVE." (Simon Strantzas, author of Nightingale Songs, on Delphine Dodd)
"... rich in realistic detail, it also uses storytelling and dreams to produce a sense of a world of strange and alarming mysteries lying just beyond our own and always ready to break through." (David Longhorn, editor of Supernatural Tales, reviewing Delphine Dodd)
"... part Hitchcock, part David Lynch, and all Miskowski's distinctive, thoughtfully crafted, slow-burn literary terror." (Molly Tanzer, author of Vermilion, on Astoria)
"... a white-knuckle terror trip across the landscape of the Pacific Northwest […] Miskowski is unafraid to plumb the darkest impulses of the female psyche […] We can bolt the door and turn on the light, but in the end, Miskowski warns us, no matter what we do, our demons are coming for us." (Lynda E. Rucker, author of The Moon Will Look Strange, on Astoria)
"... a cleverly constructed tale [...] a fitting final chapter to a work of great power and authority..." (Peter Tennant for Black Static, reviewing In the Light)
"... a flair for imbuing mundane things with a strange sense of menace [...] a beansprout grown in a cup and a moth fluttering around a child's bedroom take on subtle qualities of malevolence..." (Rob Russin for Geeks Out, reviewing In the Light)
"A wonderful and fitting end to the Skillute Cycle, though it's a shame to say goodbye. Full of beauty and life and dark magic, the Skillute books are a joy to read." (Alison Littlewood, author of The Unquiet House, on In the Light)
Broken Eye Books is an independent press, here to bring you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction. Our stories tend to blend genres, highlighting the weird and blurring its boundaries with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. More information can be found at www.brokeneyebooks.com.
Late 1960s in the backwater town of Skillute, WA. Three bored young girls unwittingly unleash a malevolent spirit. The girls and the townsfolk will never be the same.
The Complete Skillute Cycle by S.P. Miskowski will be available in 2025. Stay tuned for more information.
S.P. Miskowski is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, for literature and for drama. Her books have been recognized with four Shirley Jackson Award nominations and two Bram Stoker Award nominations. Her stories have appeared in many anthologies including Haunted Nights, Human Monsters, Looming Low I and II, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, Uncertainties III, October Dreams 2, The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 10, and Darker Companions: 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell, and in magazines including Identity Theory, Black Static, Vastarien, Supernatural Tales, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Her grunge noir novel I Wish I Was Like You was named This Is Horror “Novel of the Year 2017” and received a Charles Dexter Award from the readers of Strange Aeons.
Praise for the Skillute Cycle
"... a fascinating meditation on the nature of horror." (Molly Tanzer, author of A Pretty Mouth, on Knock Knock)
"... the story achieves a momentum all its own, rushing headlong to a shattering finale, and the prose, which Miskowski uses with such care and accuracy throughout, in the final pages attains a fever dream intensity." (Peter Tennant for Black Static, reviewing Knock Knock)
"... not only expands and illuminates the tragedy in the brilliant novel, Knock Knock, but also further proves Miskowski possesses that talent most enviable in a writer: she makes you BELIEVE." (Simon Strantzas, author of Nightingale Songs, on Delphine Dodd)
"... rich in realistic detail, it also uses storytelling and dreams to produce a sense of a world of strange and alarming mysteries lying just beyond our own and always ready to break through." (David Longhorn, editor of Supernatural Tales, reviewing Delphine Dodd)
"... part Hitchcock, part David Lynch, and all Miskowski's distinctive, thoughtfully crafted, slow-burn literary terror." (Molly Tanzer, author of Vermilion, on Astoria)
"... a white-knuckle terror trip across the landscape of the Pacific Northwest […] Miskowski is unafraid to plumb the darkest impulses of the female psyche […] We can bolt the door and turn on the light, but in the end, Miskowski warns us, no matter what we do, our demons are coming for us." (Lynda E. Rucker, author of The Moon Will Look Strange, on Astoria)
"... a cleverly constructed tale [...] a fitting final chapter to a work of great power and authority..." (Peter Tennant for Black Static, reviewing In the Light)
"... a flair for imbuing mundane things with a strange sense of menace [...] a beansprout grown in a cup and a moth fluttering around a child's bedroom take on subtle qualities of malevolence..." (Rob Russin for Geeks Out, reviewing In the Light)
"A wonderful and fitting end to the Skillute Cycle, though it's a shame to say goodbye. Full of beauty and life and dark magic, the Skillute books are a joy to read." (Alison Littlewood, author of The Unquiet House, on In the Light)
Broken Eye Books is an independent press, here to bring you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction. Our stories tend to blend genres, highlighting the weird and blurring its boundaries with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. More information can be found at www.brokeneyebooks.com.
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