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WE LIKE STORIES that scare us. We like the macabre-monsters and magic and men with nothing to lose. More than anything, we like to be intrigued and entertained.


UNDERLAND PRESS was started to bring the best of the world's scary and strange stories to life and to light.


CALL IT THE NEW WEIRD, or fantasy, or dark fantasy. Call it what you want. We like reading by flashlight under the covers at night. We want to make books you can't put down.


We've got some good ones: Contemporary alt-lit master Brian Evenson's latest-a story that started its life as a limited-edition detective novella set in a sect of self-mutilators; world-renowned fantasist Jeff VanderMeer's new Ambergris novel, the third novel set in a world where nothing is what it seems; newcomer Will Elliott, a writer whose demonic clowns caused the critics to swoon and readers to demand more when they first saw print in Australia and Britain; the husband-and-wife team called Escober, a best-selling export from the Netherlands brought to America for the very first time; and rising star Kealan Patrick Burke doing the world's firstever Wovel, sponsored on Underland Press' groundbreaking website.
JOIN US IN PRINT AND ONLINE. For the weird, the strange, the odd, the unsettling. For the books you can’t put down.

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Wovel Up, Exit Vector by Simon Drax. Start from the beginning!

Go read Exit Vector by Simon Drax here:http://www.underlandpress.com/wovel.cfmDear Wovel Readers--Ha! You thought you were rid of us. What have we been doing? Besides rubbing our hands together in an ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:23:00 GMT

Wovel Up, Last Installment EVER (of Jemiah Jefferson's Firstworld...coming soon Kevin Maurer)

Dear Wovel Readers--26 weeks. 1 nuclear disaster. 1 new love. 1 lost love. 3 neuro-enhancing drugs. A handful of deaths. 1 juvenile assassin. 1 juvenile genius.CLICK HERE TO READ THE FINAL INSTALMENT!...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:48:00 GMT

Wovel UP! Board the Train (FIRSTWORLD), and Powell's reading was AWESOME!

Board the Train...Click Here to Read Dear Wovel Readers--Tonight, I'm a happy woman. Jemiah and Brian's reading at Powell's went off wonderfully, despite my mother-henning. It was the world's first-ev...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:13:00 GMT

Jemiah Jefferson's and Brian Evenson's Underland Press reading at Powell's in Portland March 8

"Underland Press Reading at Powell's - Jemiah Jefferson and Brian Evenson" on Sunday, March 8 at 7:30pm.Jemiah Jefferson says, "Do you like readings? Do you like Powell's? Sure you do. Please tell oth...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:32:00 GMT

Wovel UP! Call Tsova-Tush. Around the World in a Hot Air Balloon? Firstworld

Dear Wovel Readers--Lucky for Jemiah Jefferson, our esteemed wovel writer, you picked the answer she wanted--to call Tsova-Tush and to leave Scott in the hands of Shinobi. Jemiah admitted to me that s...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:38:00 GMT

Wovel Up, Steal Boat. FIRSTWORLD. Plus some news about Brian Evenson’s "Last Days."

Dear Wovel Readers--A week in snow in Portland can't stop the wovel! Read the new installment here. Lalia has been nabbed, while Maura and Sonny try to fly under the radar. 63% of you wanted to steal ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:08:00 GMT

WOVEL UP! Grazes Sleeve FIRSTWORLD by Jemiah Jefferson PLUS Oregonian article!

Dear Wovel Readers--There's something deeply disturbing about the idea of a nine-year-old murderer. Which is why, maybe, you all voted for Barry not to have killed the intruder sneaking across the law...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:27:00 GMT

Wovel letter from Kealan Patrick Burke

Kealan Patrick Burke writes:"When I agreed to do the wovel, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The process seemed simple enough: write a chapter every week(end), and leave each one hanging ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Wovel.... down ? More information within about Kealan Patrick Burke and Hurricane Ike

Sorry about the delay loyal Wovel readers, but, like many people in his part of the United States, Kealan Patrick Burke was affected by Hurricane Ike.The great thing about an experiment is t...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:57:00 GMT

Underland Press Starting Line-Up: Brian Evenson, Will Elliott, Jeff VanderMeer, EScoBER, Kealan

The future and current line-up for Underland Press includes:The Living, our current Wovel by Kealan Patrick Burke that started in June of 2008 (more info here)Last Days, by Brian Evenson (scheduled W...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:30:00 GMT