One of the most ambitious projects from award-winning specialty publisher Dark Regions Press to date, I AM THE ABYSS is a new fiction anthology of horror and dark fantasy containing ten unique interpretations of the underworld by ten different authors. The Kickstarter preorder date is now official: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015.
Based on the concept that after we die our consciousness inverts into our own realms of subconscious thought, I AM THE ABYSS will contain original novella length stories written exclusively for the project by Laird Barron, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Steve Rasnic Tem, Michael Marshall Smith, Jeffrey Thomas, Reggie Oliver, Kealan Patrick Burke and three more authors of horror and dark fantasy.
Award-winning artist Les Edwards is creating an original two-page panoramic color spread to precede each story, giving us a window into each respective underworld. World renowned artist Menton3 will be creating an original artwork that will be used as a Kickstarter-exclusive front cover for the book.
I AM THE ABYSS will be printed in a unique 8″x8″ size, presenting the original color artwork by Les Edwards in sixteen stunning inches across both pages. The book will be offered in two unique signed limited hardcover editions: Your Heart is Black and I Am Gateway.
Join Dark Regions Press on Tuesday, August 11th 2015 to preorder your Kickstarter-exclusive edition of I AM THE ABYSS and support its creation and possible expansion. For more information on the project visit IAmTheAbyss.com and Facebook.com/IAmTheAbyss
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Each of us is born into the Birth World. It is a place where we can interpret and affect the existence of others, where all of us have influence over the course of reality. The duration of your consciousness in the Birth World is based on your Mortal Path: the journey that we all take as we wander through the shared observable reality. During these journeys our personalities form, continually feeding the pool of subconscious thought and memory that defines us. As we age these pools deepen, preparing for the inevitable deterioration of our physical form to welcome the consciousness that remains.
It is here that you will enter when you reach the end of your Mortal Path and the brain begins to die. In the seconds before all neural activity is vanquished your consciousness inverts from perceiving the shared Birth World to stepping inside your pool of subconscious thought. This is your Turning Point. It is the moment when your Mortal Path has come to an end, and the journey through the depths of your own mind begins.
I AM THE ABYSS collects ten human minds whose journeys in the Birth World have come to an end. These are stories of tragedy, despair and redemption. Let them prepare you for the inevitable end of your own Mortal Path. May these stories influence you to avoid the darkness that waits for many of us just beyond the Turning Point.
Featuring journeys into the underworld from writers Laird Barron, Michael Marshall Smith, Kealan Patrick Burke, Reggie Oliver, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jeffrey Thomas and three more illustrated with ten full color two-page panoramic spreads by award-winning artist Les Edwards.
Explore the minds of some of the darkest among us at IAmTheAbyss.com.
