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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 2h

More unexpected than ever. My collection of odd, interlinked stories coming January 26th from @influxpress.bsky.social. Cover by Dylan Marcus McConnell.

Book cover: Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land. Stories by Malcolm Devlin.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also now available for the first time in US bookstores, my first collection, You Will Grow Into Them, also from Influx. This one was up for a few awards and has includes a not-a-werewolf story, a not-a-ghost story plus one about people growing mushrooms on their backs which grossed some folk out.

A few copies of You Will Grow Into Them by Malcolm Devlin. Lots of different fonts on a bright red background. Very text heavy. Also by the excellent Luke Bird. This lot aren't in the US, they're on my kitchen table, which is quite nice.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Engines Beneath, U.S. -- My upside-down folk-horror-but-in-a-housing-estate novella is now available in the US thanks to the good folk at @influxpress.bsky.social. It's a very handsome book that would look lovely in your absolutely giant American bookshelves.

Cover for Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin (lots of gears and cogs under some nodesript houses. One of the cogs is a big old eyeball. It looks great. Luke Bird did the cover and I'm very chuffed with it.) The book is on a table in a New York park.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Look at this handsome beast. And Then I Woke Up / Y Entonces Desperté from @obscuraed.bsky.social, translated by Mª Pilar San Román and that glorious Sam Araya cover back again.

Book covers for And Then I Woke Up / Y Entonces Desperté. A man suffers acute “Fancis Bacon Exploding Pope Head” in a pink room.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

One for those 'most anticipated books of next year' lists. Allan on Priest on Ballard and everything in between.

The Illuminated Man. Life, Death and the Worlds of JG Ballard by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan.

This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.

In 2024, Nina Allan's husband, the novelist Christopher Priest died. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had metastasised into the bones, the same disease that killed the man whose biography he'd spent his last months working on - the cult author, J. G. Ballard.

J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent history: a childhood spent in the encroaching shadow of World War II, teenage internment in a Japanese prison camp - an experience famously fictionalised in Empire of the Sun. Ballard's novels are among the finest and most unusual fiction that has ever been published. Whether in the hyper-surrealism of High Rise or the erotic violence of Crash, he upended the morality and reality of our world.

Christopher knew many of Ballard's friends and colleagues personally. As a young writer, it had been Ballard's stories, most of all, that had helped cement his passion for science fiction. With much of their early work published in the same magazines, Priest knew about Ballard's world from the inside. He set out to write a biography that would make people understand what he already knew: that J. G. Ballard wasn't just a cult writer - he was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.

When Nina and Christopher first met, they bonded over their love for Ballard's writing, rereading his novels and stories together many times. When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it, patching together with her own voice the gaps that remained. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher. With access to never-before-seen material, The Illuminated Man explores the history and themes of Ballard's life and - with Ballardian strangeness - celebrates and mourns for those that are gone.

This is the story of two deaths, three science fiction writers and one attempt to turn back time.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Half Price Engines Beneath Us and You Will Grow Into Them and other Influx goodies. And a very tangential excuse to repost this picture of my son's Halloween Lego house even though neither it nor the books have anything to do with Black Friday.

You Will Grow Into Them by Malcolm Devlin and Engines Beneath Us by Malcom Devlin. Plus a Lego Halloween house all backlit and spooky, if that's your thing.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Half price for Halloween. You Will Grow Into Them, Engines Beneath Us and a whole lot of other excellent Influx paperbacks including Joel Lane, Elizabeth Hand and more.

You Will Grow Into Them and Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin and a Lego haunted house. Oooooooooh.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Gottle of gears. Very happy that this one has had a new lease of life.

Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin (published by Influx Press). Folk horror! (Ish) But in a housing estate with a weird bit in a cellar.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Free delivery, though, so that's nice.

Amazon listing for 'Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land' by Malcolm Devin. A snip at a mere $1783.96

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Coming soon to Oxford. The excellent Helen Marshall and the brilliant Sarah Brooks talk about their novels with very long titles. The tremendous Chris Sugden will be there and so will I. 17th June, Caper, Magdalen Rd., Oxford. Tickets here: checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

Book covers and author mugshots. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks; The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death by Helen Marshall and Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Summer in The Crescent. Engines Beneath Us, surfacing via @influxpress.bsky.social.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Resurfacing today, thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social, my back-to-front-folk-horror-but-in-a-town novella, Engines Beneath Us with a new cover by Luke Bird. First published by TTA Press. (And yes, I have been watching too much Play School with the three-year-old.)

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

What an extraordinary book this is.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Also, last year Influx also reissued my first collection, You Will Grow Into Them. Also designed by Luke Bird. B

Book covers: You Will Grow Into Them by Malcolm Devlin

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Engines Beneath Us, my upside-down folk-horror-ish novella, resurfaces courtesy of @influxpress.bsky.social, with an absolutely stunning cover by Luke Bird. Read the book my mum described as "quite miserable"!

Book Cover: Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin. A stylised housing estate built above a mass of red gears, one of which is absolutely an eye.

Book Covers: Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin. A stylised housing estate built above a mass of red gears, one of which is absolutely an eye.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is my upcoming thing from Influx Press. May next year, I think. Previously published by TTA Press. It's quite odd.

Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin. From Influx Press. 'Malcolm Devlin is one of those writers who inspires great trust from readers, and rightly so. He is a quietly brilliant craftsman who never puts a foot wrong' Georgina Bruce

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Absurdly handsome new edition of my first collection, out from Influx Press this week. It will look very nice in your bookshelf.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Resurrected by Influx Press, I'm delighted that my first collection is reentering society in a very handsome new jacket by Luke Bird. Sad ex-werewolves, tower-block Rapnuzels, unliveable houses and something nasty at the bottom of the garden.

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Cryptids at the gate. Lanky (30cm+) stick insect adding a bit of filigree to the ironwork.

Bloody enormous stick insect hanging on metal gate

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Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Cheap dreams are made of teeth. Who am I to dis[count] zombies? And Then I Woke Up on Halloween and found the ebooks of my weird little @tordotcom.bsky.social novella were heavily discounted for a limited time only.

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