It Came From The Trees And other violent Aberrations, by Canadian author, Joel McKay
It Came From The Trees
And other violent Aberrations
The newest segment of modern horror by Canadian author,Joel McKay
The book is published by Birchwood Press and is availableworldwide in print and e-book format
Tree planters on the run from parasiticinsects. A physicist who has become the target of a murderous airline.Teenagers trapped in a museum with an eldritch horror. An escaped pit fighterthrust into a desperate stand at a sagging mountain fortress. And a lucklesscowboy sailing across a sea of grass to the bloody resurrection of an eldergod. Welcome to Joel McKay's It Came from theTrees and Other Violent Aberrations, a collection of fivepage-turners as strange, disparate and bloody as their titles suggest.
So, grab a stiff drink, turn the lights down low, settle into your favoritereading nook and enjoy this brief but memorable collection of tales from one ofthe newest voices in Canadian pulp fiction.
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More from Joel McKay:
All Charlotte Deerborn wanted was a niceThanksgiving dinner with family and friends. Too bad for her no one else wantedto be there. By the time the turkey is carved, old grievances, bad behavior andcrass remarks have transformed her dinner party into a disaster. And then awerewolf shows up to do some carving of its own.
Wolf at the Door is a fast-paced, absurdist takeon modern creature horror, levering humor and action to highlight how onefamily comes to grips with what really matters in life.
Wolf at the Door - Kindle edition by McKay, Joel. Literature& Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
About Joel McKay:
Joel McKay is an economic development professional, author and formerpublic relations executive and journalist. He is based in Prince George, B.C. wherehe is the CEO of Northern Development, and sits on the boards of the Universityof Northern B.C. and Destination B.C.
Joel is passionate about British Columbia, especially its vast andrelatively misunderstood north. His writing focuses on the people, places andissues relevant to northern and rural communities, typically with a healthydose of the absurd or supernatural. His short story 'Number Hunnerd', a fishtale set in B.C.'s Cariboo, was published in Tyche Books anthology Water:Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters in 2021. His novella, Wolf at the Door, waspublished in the spring of 2022 and focuses on a disastrous family Thanksgivingdinner. His forthcoming fiction, a short western horror story titled 'Hands',will be published by Brigids Gate Press in the summer of 2022.
Joel was previously Director, Communications at Northern Development. Duringthat time he led the creation and publication of the 'Small Town PR Playbook',a first-of-its-kind how-to book for rural public relations in Canada that wonthe Don Rennie Award from the Canadian Public Relations Society for excellencein government communications. Prior to that, he was Assignment Editor atBusiness in Vancouver Newspaper where his journalism earned him a Jack WebsterAward for Business, Industry and Economics in 2011, and a nomination for asecond Jack Webster Award for Multimedia Reporting in 2012.
He has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kwantlen PolytechnicUniversity for his professional achievements, and in 2021 was awarded theChairman's Award from the B.C. Economic Development Association for hiscontributions to rural development. He has been named a Top 40 Under 40 by thePrince George Chamber of Commerce, and in 2021 and 2022 was named one of the500 most influential business leaders in British Columbia by Business inVancouver Media Group.
Torequest additional review copies or an interview with Joel McKay, pleasecontact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity:mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.
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