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From New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Robinson, comes NECTAR, a supernatural thriller where horror comes on gossamer wings.
An island village off Salem, Massachusetts, is inundated by a strange species of butterflies that spread the Dancing Plague and have a very particular taste in nectar...human blood. New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Robinson and Italian phenom artists Annapaola Martello & Francesco Francini horrify readers with a quaint village’s descent into madness.
For fans of the Netflix series Midnight Mass, Stephen King's Salem's Lot, Let The Right One In, 30 Days of Night (Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith) graphic novel and film, Those Across the River, The Witch, and The Town.
“NECTAR is great, cinematic folk horror, absolutely worth your time and money! I love this stuff!” —Christopher Golden (New York Times and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Road of Bones, All Hallows, and Red Hands)
An island village off Salem, Massachusetts, is inundated by a strange species of butterflies that spread the Dancing Plague and have a very particular taste in nectar...human blood. New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Robinson and Italian phenom artists Annapaola Martello & Francesco Francini horrify readers with a quaint village’s descent into madness.
For fans of the Netflix series Midnight Mass, Stephen King's Salem's Lot, Let The Right One In, 30 Days of Night (Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith) graphic novel and film, Those Across the River, The Witch, and The Town.
“NECTAR is great, cinematic folk horror, absolutely worth your time and money! I love this stuff!” —Christopher Golden (New York Times and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Road of Bones, All Hallows, and Red Hands)
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160 pages, Paperback
Expected publication August 4, 2026
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Jeremy Robinson
165 books2,630 followersJeremy Robinson is the New York Times bestselling author of seventy novels and novellas, including Apocalypse Machine, Island 731, and SecondWorld, as well as the Jack Sigler thriller series and Project Nemesis, the highest selling, original (non-licensed) kaiju novel of all time. He’s known for mixing elements of science, history and mythology, which has earned him the #1 spot in Science Fiction and Action-Adventure, and secured him as the top creature feature author. Many of his novels have been adapted into comic books, optioned for film and TV, and translated into thirteen languages. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children. Visit him at www.bewareofmonsters.com.
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Review of advance copy received from Edelweiss+
(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss. Content warning for violence and nudity.)
-- 2.5 stars, rounded up to 3 where necessary --
Misery Island, 1840. After a plague of supernatural butteries is seemingly unleashed from a grave in Salem, they migrate to the island(s)*, where they find a captive and mostly superstitious** population. When bitten by a butterfly, the victim succumbs to the dancing sickness. But this dancing plague differs from the infamous outbreak of 1518 in one fairly significant way: death not comes from exhaustion, but in the form of liquefaction. The victims' joints, bones, tissues - everything breaks down into a slurry. And then the butterflies descend once again, to feast on the corpses' blood.
The two protagonists of the story are Amos Hall, the islands' doctor and a man of science; and the island's pastor, who believes the butterflies are the work of Satan. As Amos fights to keep the island under quarantine, the pastor goes on a roaring rampage, gunning down anyone who so much has a touch of rhythm in their step.
The concept sounded pretty intriguing - what's not to love about historical fiction about mass hysteria coupled with a horror story about carnivorous butterflies? - but the execution leaves something to be desired. For starters, the story could have been a little longer - we really don't get to know the characters very well, and so aren't all that invested in their outcomes. Likewise, the horror aspect of the story could have been a bit more fleshed out as well.
Also, the marriage of the dancing plague with the shapeshifting, man-eating butterflies just felt ... a bit haphazard? It's, like, pick a lane.
I suppose this is supposed to be some sort of allegory about science and reason vs. religion and faith, but I'm not really sure what the author was trying to say, if anything. If there is a hidden meaning, I'm afraid the ending doesn't speak too well of science.
* The Misery Islands are actually a real chain of islands off the coast of Massachusetts!
** Insert the Michael Scott "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious" gif here.
-- 2.5 stars, rounded up to 3 where necessary --
Misery Island, 1840. After a plague of supernatural butteries is seemingly unleashed from a grave in Salem, they migrate to the island(s)*, where they find a captive and mostly superstitious** population. When bitten by a butterfly, the victim succumbs to the dancing sickness. But this dancing plague differs from the infamous outbreak of 1518 in one fairly significant way: death not comes from exhaustion, but in the form of liquefaction. The victims' joints, bones, tissues - everything breaks down into a slurry. And then the butterflies descend once again, to feast on the corpses' blood.
The two protagonists of the story are Amos Hall, the islands' doctor and a man of science; and the island's pastor, who believes the butterflies are the work of Satan. As Amos fights to keep the island under quarantine, the pastor goes on a roaring rampage, gunning down anyone who so much has a touch of rhythm in their step.
The concept sounded pretty intriguing - what's not to love about historical fiction about mass hysteria coupled with a horror story about carnivorous butterflies? - but the execution leaves something to be desired. For starters, the story could have been a little longer - we really don't get to know the characters very well, and so aren't all that invested in their outcomes. Likewise, the horror aspect of the story could have been a bit more fleshed out as well.
Also, the marriage of the dancing plague with the shapeshifting, man-eating butterflies just felt ... a bit haphazard? It's, like, pick a lane.
I suppose this is supposed to be some sort of allegory about science and reason vs. religion and faith, but I'm not really sure what the author was trying to say, if anything. If there is a hidden meaning, I'm afraid the ending doesn't speak too well of science.
* The Misery Islands are actually a real chain of islands off the coast of Massachusetts!
** Insert the Michael Scott "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious" gif here.
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