In a post-apocalyptic world ruled by tentacled invaders, a working class dad struggles to ensure his family's survival -- and faces the wrath of a boss whose subservience to the inhuman rulers has turned him against humanity itself.

My new book, THE MOLD FARMER, is out! Buy it here

Here's what some fantastic authors are saying about my latest:

Think you've got a bad job? Take consolation that you're not scraping mold for a living, that you don't have any tentacles in your head, and that you're not sewing tents from the discarded skins of the creatures who've taken your world over. A wonderfully odd novella with a profoundly human core.

-Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World and The Warren



At its best, Rick Claypool's work makes the disturbing and surreal feel believable. The true horror in this book isn't the alien overlords, but the alarmingly relatable journey of a man navigating a world he will never understand, willing to stoop ever lower just to get by.

-Daniel McCloskey, author of Cloud Town and A Film About Billy



Claypool's post-apocalyptic novella draws readers into a world that's compellingly surreal, darkly imaginative, and just not... quite right.

-Premee Mohamed, author of A Broken Darkness and Beneath the Rising



A character struggling between the twin horrors of alien in-vasion and economic degradation, I found Rick Claypool's Mold Farmer a voice that held me in its grip. Full-on body horror merges with the most human of concerns-family, and how to protect it-to produce a fascinating, frightening tale.

-Aliya Whiteley, author of The Loosening Skin and The Beauty