Minimalist Timepiece for Everyone

Infused with cosmic, culinary dread and seasoned with dark humor, The Nothing That Is reads like Anthony Bourdain riffing on Lovecraft, according to Kealan Patrick Burke, the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy. Winkler's engaging style and hypnotic prose will consume you whole, and if that doesn't whet your appetite, there's an exploding graveyard - "Eat this one up, my friends, before it eats you!"

Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying, describes the novel as "wild, fast-moving, and disorientingly hilarious… down to earth and completely unhinged," noting that it also gave him "a jolt of sickening, infinite horror" he hadn't felt since the Vermicious Knids jumped out of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

The story takes place in 1986, with Cade McCall, an assistant manager for a catering business, as the protagonist. One morning, as Cade is driving to work, part of the local graveyard explodes. Later that same day, Cade receives an odd message from a client who needs catering for an Extreme Food Club. The client calls himself Mr. Dinosaur and is willing to pay $11,000 for the service.

Despite Cade's reservations, he takes the gig. However, the question of who's feeding whom becomes increasingly unclear as the story unfolds, involving female biker gangs, cults, possessed furniture, and a full dose of cosmic horror. The Nothing That Is serves up the weird, blending the mundane with the extraordinary in a captivating and unsettling manner.

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