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Michal Polgar

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in Handlová, Slovakia

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Mystery, Horror, Science Fiction

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H.P. Lovecraft
Stephen King
Jeff VanderMeer
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Paul Trembl ...more

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May 2016

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Michal Polgár is a Slovak-born author of literary, cosmic, and psychological horror. Living in Northern Norway, he draws inspiration from remote landscapes, isolation, and the thin lines between the natural and the uncanny. He is a registered Norwegian author.

His work blends quiet atmosphere with slow-burn tension and emotional depth, often moving between the literary and the unsettling. Readers of H.P. Lovecraft, Jeff VanderMeer, or Paul Tremblay may recognize influences in his focus on tension, landscape, and the unsettling beauty of the unknown.

Krelløy is his debut novel. ...more

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Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation

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“Together then. Together, and sealed it with a kiss that tasted of copper and starlight.”
― Michal Polgar, Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation

tags: apocalyptic-love, atmospheric, cosmic-horror, devotion, haunting, literary-horror, love-and-loss, nordic-noir, relationship-goals, unforgettable-ending

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“Love, I realized, was not a promise of safety but a kind of agreement; to hold one another while the world fractured around us.”
― Michal Polgar, Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation

tags: emotional, existential, grief, heartbreak, hope, life, literary-fiction, love, philosophy, relationships

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“Together then. Together, and sealed it with a kiss that tasted of copper and starlight.”
― Michal Polgar, Krelløy: A Lovecraftian Horror Novel of Arctic Isolation and Cosmic Annihilation

tags: apocalyptic-love, atmospheric, cosmic-horror, devotion, haunting, literary-horror, love-and-loss, nordic-noir, relationship-goals, unforgettable-ending

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“I turn away and stare through the window at the field where the scotch broom creeps yellow as hell toward my doorstep. Six years and it has advanced from the hinterlands to the picket fence in the back yard. Six more years and it will have chewed this house to the foundation, braided my bones in its hair.”
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

tags: cosmic-horror, horror, lovecraftian

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