Small Gods of Calamity

A tightly woven blend of myth, magic, and the ties of a found family.

Ghosts that speak in smoke. Spirits with teeth like glass. A parasitic, soul-eating spirit worm has gone into a feeding frenzy, but all the Jong-ro Police Department’s violent crimes unit sees is a string of suicides. Except for Kim Han-gil, Seoul’s only spirit detective. He’s seen this before. He’ll do anything to stop another tragedy from happening, even if that means teaming up with Shin Yoonhae, the man Han-gil believes is responsible for the horrifying aftermath of his mother’s last exorcism.

In their debut novella, Sam Kyung Yoo weaves a tale of mystical proportions that’s part crime-thriller, part urban fantasy.

Sam Kyung Yoo is a writer and third-degree black belt taekwondo instructor. They have lived almost their entire life in Massachusetts, but when asked, "Where are you REALLY from though?" their answer is "technically Germany" since that's where they were born. Their work has appeared in Fireside Magazine, Open Minds Quarterly, Unlocking the Magic (Cuppatea Publications), Beyond the Veil (Ghost Orchid Press), and is forthcoming in The Dead Inside (Dark Dispatch). You can find them on Twitter @SamKyungYoo.