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Waterloo Midnight
Have you met Karl? Would you admit it if you have?
Karl lives, if you can call it that, in Toronto, circa 2014, and life isn’t getting easier. He can’t stop panicking, can’t get ahead, and wants desperately to do better, but he’s starting to learn that self-improvement can be deadly.
Assigned a project celebrating the Absconditus family, one of the city’s wealthiest, weirdest, and most influential dynasties, Karl is drawn into something far stranger than ad agency office politics.
Waterloo Midnight is eerie, romantic, and darkly surreal, a feverish blend of horror, satire, and fantasy that asks how much of yourself must be surrendered just to feel like you barely exist at all.
Karl lives, if you can call it that, in Toronto, circa 2014, and life isn’t getting easier. He can’t stop panicking, can’t get ahead, and wants desperately to do better, but he’s starting to learn that self-improvement can be deadly.
Assigned a project celebrating the Absconditus family, one of the city’s wealthiest, weirdest, and most influential dynasties, Karl is drawn into something far stranger than ad agency office politics.
Waterloo Midnight is eerie, romantic, and darkly surreal, a feverish blend of horror, satire, and fantasy that asks how much of yourself must be surrendered just to feel like you barely exist at all.
482 pages, Paperback
Published June 7, 2026
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