I’m hugely excited to have a new book out, this one from Incunabula Media. The Ice Plague and other inconveniences (to give it its full title) is a story collection, my first in a few years — “tales of cognitive dissonance and dark fantasy,” as the publisher’s blurb has it.

Here’s the back cover copy:

Tim Lees’s fiction has been compared to that of Michael Moorcock, Ray Bradbury, Franz Kafka, Ted Chiang and Mervyn Peake. In this, his latest collection, you’ll meet a couple of artistically-inclined hit-men (“Scenes from Country Life”), a woman caught up in an interdimensional war, whose friends are far worse than her enemies (“Love and War”); you’ll visit a Heavenly realm invaded by monsters (“Gumps”), and witness a terrifying ritual which nonetheless sustains the peace and stability of the world – and causes hell when it’s disrupted (“The Shuttered Child”). From familiar city streets to strange, inhuman landscapes, from the fields of England to the unknown cities of America, these are stories which push the boundaries of genre and show human life adapting to the weird, the alien – and the outright terrifying.

You can buy this directly from https://www.lulu.com/shop/tim-lees/the-ice-plague/paperback/product-m22g9kv.html?q=the+ice+plague&page=1&pageSize=4, and I’d recommend a visit to the Incunabula site https://incunabulamedia.com/ just to check out everything else they have on sale. It’s an eclectic range, from classics through gritty realism to the fantastic and surreal. I’m very happy to be included in their catalogue. The cover illustration, up above, is by the very talented Mr David Mitchell.

It may take a while to get posted, but the book should also be available at the Barnes and Noble website, and on Ingram — and, eventually, Amazon (though it may cost a little more there).

Happy reading!