Angel Country

“Beautifully grotesque, fantastically creative.” —Hiron Ennes, author of The Works of Vermin

In an alternate early 1900s, a scientist hunts down her former research partner after he steals her life’s work before his greed reshapes the world in this darkly wondrous cosmic horror—perfect for fans of The Starving Saints and Ring Shout.

One morning in 1904, scientist Ada Franklin wakes up in her own grave. After clawing her way out, she discovers her lab abandoned and her research partner gone—along with her life’s work: a prototype designed to enable human-angel communication.

Angelic infestations have kept the original thirteen colonies from expanding for generations, but Manifest Destiny is a growing force in the new century. Whoever controls Ada’s invention may gain the power not only to communicate with angels, but to command them.

With no one else to trust, Ada resurrects her former lover, now monstrously altered by the entities they once studied. Together they pursue the man who betrayed her across a country warped by celestial horror, where angelic contact remakes both flesh and mind. But the closer Ada comes to reclaiming her work, the more she suspects humanity’s greed could prove more terrifying than the divine.

A fever dream mash-up of alternate history, dark fantasy, and eldritch horror, Angel Country delivers a morally complex tale that asks a chilling question: when faced with unimaginable power, who is truly the monster?

Alex T. Singer lives in coastal Connecticut with her wife, daughter, and more sci-fi fantasy novels than she can count. She is the author of the graphic novel Mirrorverse: Belle. Her short stories have appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Apparition Literary Magazine, Clarkesworld, and PseudoPod. Her short story, “Nothing but the Gods On Their Backs” was a finalist in the 2024 WSFA Small Press Award category for short fiction. For more of her work, visit LittleFoolery.com.