And Then I Woke Up [Paperback]

Winner of the Australian Shadows Award for Best Long Fiction

Nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella

Intelligent, compassionate and unsettling. The New York Times

Devlin twists and breaks the typical zombie narrative without spoiling one of the cleverest conceits in recent horror. Suffice to say that the author takes a scalpel to the post-truth era.Esquire

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm DevlinsAnd Then I Woke Upis a creepy, layered, literary story about false narratives and their ability to divide us.

In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, its hard to be certain of anything&

Spence is one of the cured living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to face the changed world until a new inmate challenges him to help her find her old crew. But if he cant tell the truth from the lies, how will he know if he has earned the redemption he dreams of? How will he know he hasnt just made things worse?

Malcolm Devlins (he/him) stories have appeared inBlack Static,Interzone,The Shadow Booth, andShadows and Tall Trees. His first collection,You Will Grow Into Themwas published by Unsung Stories in 2017 and shortlisted for the British Fantasy and Saboteur Awards. A second collection, also to be published by Unsung Stories, is due to be published in Summer 2021. He currently lives in Brisbane.

Included inEsquire's roundup of Best Horror Books of 2022

Intelligent, compassionate and unsettling,And Then I Woke Upis both an invitation to and a caution against allegory. The New York Times

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