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Jo Kaplan is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of It Will Just Be Us and When the Night Bells Ring. Her short stories have appeared in Fireside Quarterly, Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, Horror Library, Nightscript, and numerous other anthologies and magazines. In addition to writing, she teaches English at Glendale Community College and is the co-chair of the Horror Writers Association's Los Angeles chapter. She also plays cello in both the Symphony of the Verdugos and the band Guerra/paz.
""Fetid, cosmic, and distinctly human, The Midnight Muse is a corpsepaint-daubed reimagining of the urge to create art as an infection. It asks what happens when those compelled by its charge are consumed by its creeping compulsion. A must-read."" --Zachary Ashford, author of Polyphemus ""One of the most effective and compelling marriages of natural and supernatural horror since Richard Matheson's Hell House, The Midnight Muse by Jo Kaplan is full of dazzling surprises and eerie plot twists that make it hard to stop turning pages. Kaplan's novel will connect with fans of recent works like Paul Tremblay's The Cabin at the End of the World or Cherie Priest's The Toll. At the same time, its meditations on the disturbingly porous veil dividing the living from the dead--and the human from the inhuman--may also put readers in mind of classic works of the uncanny like The Island of Doctor Moreau or even Fitz-James O'Brien's 'What Was It?' Though the terrors that beset her protagonists are deeply unnerving, Kaplan also manages to infuse The Midnight Muse with a rollicking sense of fun; you may grin or even giggle from time to time, even as the urge to hide under your blankets grows stronger and stronger. The Midnight Muse is thoroughly impressive horror storytelling, and an utter delight to read."" --Scott Kenemore, author of Edge of the Wire and Lake of Darkness
