JESSAMINE PRESS

MALAISE, a horror anthology, is now live on @kickstarter!

When the nightmare becomes real, when the thing in the woods awakes, when the swamp gets its first monster, when the airlock opens to the dead floating in space, there is MALAISE.

After months of development and editing, we’re ready to launch this fantastic collection of scary stories featuring marginalized narratives. The book’s focus takes root in tales of horror, discomfort, and unease, all told through the lenses of marginalized writers. The horror genre has often had similar stories told again and again from the same point of view. To help subvert the tropes and offer new perspectives, MALAISE features stories written by voices often unheard in the publishing world.

This campaign goal will help fund and print MALAISE, an anthology of short stories all written by POC, disabled, and LGBTQ+ writers. Within the book’s pages you’ll find nine 7,000 to 10,000 word tales, all within the horror genre, but differing in subgenre.

In the creation of the anthology, we looked to encourage our writers to create short stories that were free of the discriminatory, harmful portrayals and stereotypes that often run rampant within horror, as well as avoid an over-reliance on gore. Our writers instead focused on cultivating stories pulling from true terror rather than relying on shock value and violence.

We believe that expanding upon unique point of views only helps to fuel new, original content. Ultimately, MALAISE focuses on stories for, by, and about underrepresented voices.

MALAISE, a horror anthology, is now live on @kickstarter!

When the nightmare becomes real, when the thing in the woods awakes, when the swamp gets its first monster, when the airlock opens to the dead floating in space, there is MALAISE.

After months of development and editing, we’re ready to launch this fantastic collection of scary stories featuring marginalized narratives. The book’s focus takes root in tales of horror, discomfort, and unease, all told through the lenses of marginalized writers. The horror genre has often had similar stories told again and again from the same point of view. To help subvert the tropes and offer new perspectives, MALAISE features stories written by voices often unheard in the publishing world.

This campaign goal will help fund and print MALAISE, an anthology of short stories all written by POC, disabled, and LGBTQ+ writers. Within the book’s pages you’ll find nine 7,000 to 10,000 word tales, all within the horror genre, but differing in subgenre.

In the creation of the anthology, we looked to encourage our writers to create short stories that were free of the discriminatory, harmful portrayals and stereotypes that often run rampant within horror, as well as avoid an over-reliance on gore. Our writers instead focused on cultivating stories pulling from true terror rather than relying on shock value and violence.

We believe that expanding upon unique point of views only helps to fuel new, original content. Ultimately, MALAISE focuses on stories for, by, and about underrepresented voices.

MALAISE, a horror anthology, is now live on @kickstarter!

When the nightmare becomes real, when the thing in the woods awakes, when the swamp gets its first monster, when the airlock opens to the dead floating in space, there is MALAISE.

After months of development and editing, we’re ready to launch this fantastic collection of scary stories featuring marginalized narratives. The book’s focus takes root in tales of horror, discomfort, and unease, all told through the lenses of marginalized writers. The horror genre has often had similar stories told again and again from the same point of view. To help subvert the tropes and offer new perspectives, MALAISE features stories written by voices often unheard in the publishing world.

This campaign goal will help fund and print MALAISE, an anthology of short stories all written by POC, disabled, and LGBTQ+ writers. Within the book’s pages you’ll find nine 7,000 to 10,000 word tales, all within the horror genre, but differing in subgenre.

In the creation of the anthology, we looked to encourage our writers to create short stories that were free of the discriminatory, harmful portrayals and stereotypes that often run rampant within horror, as well as avoid an over-reliance on gore. Our writers instead focused on cultivating stories pulling from true terror rather than relying on shock value and violence.

We believe that expanding upon unique point of views only helps to fuel new, original content. Ultimately, MALAISE focuses on stories for, by, and about underrepresented voices.

MALAISE, a horror anthology, is now FULLY FUNDED on @kickstarter!

It’s been a whirlwind month and, with 7 days to go and two new commission tiers, we’re ecstatic! We can’t thank you enough for your love and support in making this anthology a reality and can’t wait to share these wonderful stories with all of you! Thank you!

In the creation of the anthology, we looked to encourage our writers to create short stories that were free of the discriminatory, harmful portrayals and stereotypes that often run rampant within horror, as well as avoid an over-reliance on gore. Our writers instead focused on cultivating stories pulling from true terror rather than relying on shock value and violence.

We’ve got a week left and some truly amazing stretch goals we hope to reach but we’re so proud of all the work that went into this anthology, so excited to share it, and so thankful for all of your support!

MALAISE, a horror anthology, is now live on @kickstarter!

When the nightmare becomes real, when the thing in the woods awakes, when the swamp gets its first monster, when the airlock opens to the dead floating in space, there is MALAISE.

After months of development and editing, we’re ready to launch this fantastic collection of scary stories featuring marginalized narratives. The book’s focus takes root in tales of horror, discomfort, and unease, all told through the lenses of marginalized writers. The horror genre has often had similar stories told again and again from the same point of view. To help subvert the tropes and offer new perspectives, MALAISE features stories written by voices often unheard in the publishing world.

This campaign goal will help fund and print MALAISE, an anthology of short stories all written by POC, disabled, and LGBTQ+ writers. Within the book’s pages you’ll find nine 7,000 to 10,000 word tales, all within the horror genre, but differing in subgenre.

In the creation of the anthology, we looked to encourage our writers to create short stories that were free of the discriminatory, harmful portrayals and stereotypes that often run rampant within horror, as well as avoid an over-reliance on gore. Our writers instead focused on cultivating stories pulling from true terror rather than relying on shock value and violence.

We believe that expanding upon unique point of views only helps to fuel new, original content. Ultimately, MALAISE focuses on stories for, by, and about underrepresented voices.

MALAISE, a horror anthology, is now live on @kickstarter!

When the nightmare becomes real, when the thing in the woods awakes, when the swamp gets its first monster, when the airlock opens to the dead floating in space, there is MALAISE.

After months of development and editing, we’re ready to launch this fantastic collection of scary stories featuring marginalized narratives. The book’s focus takes root in tales of horror, discomfort, and unease, all told through the lenses of marginalized writers. The horror genre has often had similar stories told again and again from the same point of view. To help subvert the tropes and offer new perspectives, MALAISE features stories written by voices often unheard in the publishing world.

This campaign goal will help fund and print MALAISE, an anthology of short stories all written by POC, disabled, and LGBTQ+ writers. Within the book’s pages you’ll find nine 7,000 to 10,000 word tales, all within the horror genre, but differing in subgenre.

In the creation of the anthology, we looked to encourage our writers to create short stories that were free of the discriminatory, harmful portrayals and stereotypes that often run rampant within horror, as well as avoid an over-reliance on gore. Our writers instead focused on cultivating stories pulling from true terror rather than relying on shock value and violence.

We believe that expanding upon unique point of views only helps to fuel new, original content. Ultimately, MALAISE focuses on stories for, by, and about underrepresented voices.

all of my art for @jessaminepress‘s MALAISE, which is still Kickstarting now! These art designs for three prints and a strategically-cropped-for-Tumblr bookmark, and I’m really excited to be able to share them. I’ve been working really hard on all of this and I hope if nothing else it convinces you to go check out the Kickstarter!! This is gonna be a beautiful book, you guys. :>