Cover Reveal: POUR ONE FOR THE DEVIL by Theodore C. Van Alst

We’re delighted to reveal the cover design for Theodore C. Van Alst’s Pour One for the Devil, a Southern Gothic horror novella forthcoming from Lanternfish Press on March 5, 2024.

Lanternfish Press announced the acquisition of the novella in May 2022.

The cover of Pour One for the Devil was designed by Kimberly Glyder with art direction by Amanda Thomas.

When Dr. Van Vierlans receives an invitation from Mrs. Elizabeth Van der Horst to give a lecture at her island mansion off the coast of South Carolina, he doesn't think twice. There’s a generous honorarium, and he relishes the chance to revisit the Sea Islands, where he once studied the Gullah language.

The lavish house he arrives at is strangely out of time. No other historians appear, nor does an audience, as he passes the time chatting in Gullah with the household servants. Just when his suspicions become difficult to ignore, Mrs. Van der Horst plies him with a sumptuous feast that distracts him from her true motives–which may prove more sinister than anything he’s prepared to imagine.

Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.'s Sacred City, his follow up to Sacred Smokes, winner of the 2019 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing, is now available from the University of New Mexico Press, who also released his edited volume The Faster Redder Road: The Best UnAmerican Stories of Stephen Graham Jones. He is an Active Horror Writers Association member whose work has been published in Southwest Review, The Rumpus, Red Earth Review, The Journal of Working-Class Studies, Apex Magazine, Electric Literature, Indian Country Today, and The Massachusetts Review, among others. You can find him on Twitter @TVAyyyy.