Who will fall for NOIR FALLING?
Daniel Lowe, a presence but not a student at the prestigious University, keeps finding himself in strange situations, not sure how he got there. Color whorls devour people and places, a beautiful woman in a null space called The Blank asks him to save her from her corporate magnate husband, and dozens of missing students might somehow relate to these calamities. With companions such as Chuck Adair, a member of a philosophical Society that crams his head full of big ideas early on, and Voice, a young woman sprung from his head, he traverses hallucinatory landscapes, the interiors of famous paintings, and more on his quest to figure out where a growing mass of “clues” will lead.
Noir Falling blends surrealism with dark noir, dark fantasy, horror, and philosophical speculation, taking Daniel on a wild quest to find out who he is while he tries to save an irresistible femme fatale from an international corporate conspiracy to traffic in the “substance” of art and humanity.
Noir Falling will be available via Amazon February 8, 2025 from Nightmare Press, but you can order it now, whenever now happens to be.
Unlike forthcoming Horrific Scribblings releases Alex’s Escape and the four volumes of The Middle Reaches series, Noir Falling locks you in a single perspective, Daniel’s, for hundreds of pages. Daniel often doesn’t know where he has come from or why he is where he is, and the situations he finds himself in usually veer off in very strange directions. He spends a lot of time feeling lost, a feeling most readers will share at least sometimes. Further, Daniel is also extremely smart, and other smart people surround him, and they all like using big words and talking about deep things. The novel is dense with heady concepts, and readers might find it a challenge.
So, who’s going to find the challenge worthwhile? People who…
- Enjoy getting their brains bent by far-out concepts and surreal imagery
- Look for stories that go in wild directions they probably haven’t seen before
- Appreciate writing with an experimental edge that makes words and sentence structures count
- Like mystery (especially noir), fantasy, and absurdism (both humorous and horrific)
- Dig painting, movies, and other art forms in addition to philosophy
- Get swept up into conspiratorial thinking, the sparks that fly as everything connects to everything
- Want a book that pays them back for however much attention they want to invest
“Noir Falling is a fever dream of philosophical quandaries, wrapped in delicious writing that kept me eagerly reading until the last page. Brilliant.” – M Ennenbach, author of Cuckoo
So… will you take the dive?
To read more about Noir Falling, see L. Andrew Cooper’s post on our sister site: https://landrewcooper.com/noirfallingencyclopedia/
