Apparitions

"An intensely unsettling read." -David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED X

VIOLENCE WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE. After years of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another Deaf teen, who eagerly teaches him Sign Language. As the two grow closer, the ambitious and cunning Felix begins to see his pupil less like an individual and more like a mind that he can mold in his own image, and as his ego grows, his plans to break free from the facility become increasingly more dangerous. Told entirely from a Deaf perspective, Apparitions is a powerful story like no other. With prose compared to Cormac McCarthy and Jack Ketchum, this is horror literature at its finest.

Adam Pottle is a Deaf author whose works span multiple genres. His groundbreaking horror fantasy play The Black Drum, billed as the world's first all-Deaf musical, was produced in 2019 and will be published in Spring 2024. He was a 2022 Warner Bros. Discovery Access screenwriting fellow, developing a supernatural horror feature script during his tenure. His historical suspense novella The Bus won the 2015 Ken Klonsky Award and was shortlisted for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, where he can often be spotted walking his goldendoodle, Valkyrie.