Levels: Fantastic and Macabre Tales

by Nathan Shumate

The editor and publisher of the Arcane and Space Eldritch anthologies now presents you with seventeen of his own short stories. From post-apocalyptic communities to existential wastelands, from black comedy to dark absurdism, from visceral shock to Lovecraftian dread, the seventeen unsettling stories in this collection are guaranteed to ensnare your imagination.

“These tales are the macabre, elegant, folksy, wise, and macabre gift of a master storyteller, and not to be missed. Did I mention that they’re macabre?”
-D.J. Butler, author of Rock Band Fights Evil and Crécheling

“Fun, exciting, all-around a good read... everything you’d expect from this writer.”
-Michaelbrent Collings, author of This Darkness Light and The Colony Saga

“Not only exciting and creepy but deeply hilarious.”
-Dan Wells, author of I Am Not A Serial Killer and the Partials series

Genres: Short Stories

156 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2015

About the author

Nathan Shumate is a Utah author, small-press publisher, assemblage artist and dilettante (although he prefers the term “Renaissance Man”). He has written (and gotten paid for) comic books, screenplays, and various forms of fiction and non-fiction. His short stories have appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories, the anthology Monsters & Mormons, and other venues. He is the publisher and instigator of the Lovecraftian pulp space opera Space Eldritch anthologies. His most recent book is The Shadow Over Vinland, and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, released June 2024. He also unleashed LousyBookCovers.com onto the world, and consults with self-publishing authors at CoverCritics.com about effective indie book cover design.