I write things. Also, I’m actually smiling in that picture. That’s my smile. Shut up.
When We Were Real
Forthcoming from Simon & Schuster. (No pub date yet)
Seven years after the world was notified we’ve been living in a simulation, two old friends decide after a terminal cancer diagnosis to take one last road trip, a tour of North America’s Impossibles—the glitches, anomalies, and miracles in the landscape that appeared on Announcement Day. Their fellow passengers on the bus include a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, horny octogenarians, an indignant skeptic… and a professor on the run from sociopaths who take The Matrix as scripture. It’s The Canterbury Tales, but with 21st-century pilgrims trying to figure out what really matters in an artificial world.
TV rights have been optioned — more on that soon! I’m represented by Anna DeRoy and Olivia Burgher of WME.
International publishers: S&S purchased only North American rights. Contact my agent, Seth Fishman, VP of the Gernert Company.
Revelator
A Washington Post book of the year. Finalist for the Dragon Award and Locus Award.
Paperback out from Vintage Feb. 27, 2024.
“Revelator is a thing of beauty, brutal in the vein of Cormac McCarthy, a novel in the Southern Gothic tradition that is fresh and deeply disturbing. ”
—New York Times
Finalist for the Dragon Award and the Locus Award.
A dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god.
“An eerie and otherworldly tale laced with moonshine, Revelator questions the bonds of kin and challenges the ideas of power and divinity. A darkly intoxicating chiller.”–Booklist
Starred reviews in Kirkus and BookPage.
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The Album of Dr. Moreau
Just your standard genetically engineered boy band / locked-room murder mystery novella, fresh from tor.com publishing.
Finalist for the Edgar Award.
“Completely banana pants.”–Book Riot
“[Daryl Gregory] constructs a clever mash-up of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, a locked room mystery, and the boy band phenomenon in this zippy but complex tale… [A] quirky and entertaining twist on a classic.” – Publisher’s Weekly
“When the ending comes, it provides the perfect twist that is both unexpected and yet completely satisfying. The Album of Dr. Moreau will leave you wanting more.”–Mystery and Suspense Magazine
“Gregory deliberately and imaginatively breaks every one of T. S. Eliot’s “Rules of Detective Fiction,” with which he has prefaced this luminous novella.” – Booklist, starred review
Kindle / B&N Nook / Apple Books / ebooks.com / Google Play / Kobo
(it’s only $3.99, so why not?)
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”
Read it for free on Tor.com. This was a Hugo Award and Sturgeon Award finalist.
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World Fantasy Award Finalist
Nebula Award Finalist
An NPR Best Book of the year
Amazon Editors’ Pick Top 20 Book
Audible.com Editors’ Pick for the year
“Gregory writes with humor and charm, offering up a rollicking and quick-paced plot tailor-made for summer…”
—Manuel Gonzales, New York Times
“A skillfully written family drama that employs quirk and magic with grace.”
— Kirkus Starred Review
“Spoonbenders is hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity.”
—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest
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