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Michael Cisco


USA flag (b.1970)

Michael Cisco was Awarded his PhD in English literature in 2003 (New York University), he is currently preparing his first critical work, Supernatural Embarrassment, for publication. He lives in New York City.


Genres: Horror
 
New and upcoming books
July 2025

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Black Brane
 
Series
Cheek Frawg's Weird
   1. The Traitor (2007)
   2. The Golem (2013)
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Novels
   The Divinity Student (1999)
   The Tyrant (2003)
   The San Veneficio Canon (2004)
   Secret Hours (2006)
   The Narrator (2010)
   The Great Lover (2011)
   Celebrant (2012)
   Member (2013)
   Animal Money (2015)
   The Wretch of the Sun (2016)
   Unlanguage (2018)
   Pest (2023)
   Black Brane (2025)
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Collections
   The Divinity Student and Others (2013)
   Antisocieties (2021)
   The Pinworm Factory (2023) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Ethics (2022)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Michael Cisco
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Where the Silent Ones Watch (2024)
Stories of the Borderland, the Night Land, the Sargasso Sea, and more!
edited by
James Chambers
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The Dagon Collection (2024)
edited by
Nate Pedersen

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Award nominations
2019 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : Unlanguage
2012 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Great Lover
2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : The Divinity Student


Michael Cisco recommends
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A Different Darkness and Other Abominations (2022)
Luigi Musolino
"Musolino will catch you in the meshes of his nightmarish landscapes and paranoid scenarios, his engrossing stories and powerful endings. He's the real thing."
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The Black Maybe (2022)
Attila Veres
"Original, brilliant, distinctive. These masterful stories by Attila Veres are a breath of fresh air from out of the darkness."

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