Monochromicon: The Complete Monochrome Trilogy

by Todd Keisling

IS THIS INTERESTING ENOUGH FOR YOU, MR. CANDLE?

Equal parts cosmic horror and existential thriller, Bram Stoker Award® finalist Todd Keisling's genre-bending series The Monochrome Trilogy welcomed readers to the Monochrome-a nightmarish parallel reality fueled by the failures of humanity-and introduced the world to Donovan Candle, a modern everyman whose mid-life crisis and middle-class complacency endangers his existence.

What unfolds is a horrific journey of self-discovery, one that leads readers deep into the heart of the Monochrome where Donovan becomes a pawn in a centuries-long stalemate between two warring demigods who threaten the fabric of reality itself-and the lives of those he loves.

This omnibus edition collects the entire trilogy in one A Life Transparent, The Liminal Man, and Nonentity, along with illustrations by Red Lagoe, a new foreword by Amelia Bennett, and a new afterword by the author himself.

Take a journey into the gray wastelands of ambition. Run for your life from ravenous monstrosities. Fight a demigod. Maybe find yourself along the way. Welcome, readers, to the spaces in between.

666 pages, Paperback

Published September 23, 2025

About the author

TODD KEISLING is the two-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author of Devil’s Creek, Scanlines, Cold, Black & Infinite, and most recently, The Sundowner’s Dance, among several others. A pair of his earlier works were recipients of the University of Kentucky’s Oswald Research & Creativity Prize for Creative Writing (2002 and 2005), and his second novel, The Liminal Man, was an Indie Book Award finalist in Horror & Suspense (2013). He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.