Wildcat Thicket

“Wildcat Thicket calls back to Joe R. Lansdale’s best, characters scraping bone and sinew just to get by. This prehistoric, Texan, cosmic cryptid creep fest is an absolute blast that’ll have you seeing heatwaves scintillating straight off the page.”- Clay McCleod Chapman, author of Wake up and Open Your EyesIn the dying Texas town of Lagoe, Ry and Erin are just trying to survive. Trapped in a crumbling trailer, dogged by debt, and surrounded by ghosts of a better future. When their reclusive landlord vanishes deep within the woods of Wildcat Thicket, and something starts creeping towards their home at night, knocking, whistling, mocking; they realise their worst fears aren’t late bills or speeding fines.Something is out there waiting for them, something pre-historic, mimicking, hungry.Lock your doors. Trust the dog. Don’t answer the voices.“A creature feature with horror, humour, and heart. Alley has created a tall tale that still manages to be both relevant and timeless.”- Patrick Tumblety, author of The October Children“A rollicking suspenseful novella with a unique take on Bigfoot, Alley delivers a story filled with heart, humour, and plenty of page-turning action!”- Steve Stred, author of Mastodon and Churn the Soil“With wry observations and thrilling plot twists, Wildcat Thicket tells a marvellously relevant story. Alley weaves us an exciting story filled with horrors of time-travelling beasts, and late-stage capitalism.”- Ivy Grimes, author of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion“Wildcat Thicket is the home of a mysterious doorway through time, a monstrous cat, and a horde of bipedal apes. And yet it’s still less scary than the surrounding world of AR-15 giveaways and overdue rent. Another darkly funny journey into the mind of Elford Alley.”- Coy Hall, author of The Owl Men of Shanidar Read more