# The Midnight Muse - Paperback

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by **Jo Kaplan** (Author)

**When a metal band's lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they're letting on in this mycelium-metal horror novel from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Jo Kaplan.**

  

_The dead collect in low places._ That's what Brynn Werner, lead singer of metal band Queen Carrion, wrote in her notebook before she vanished while staying at a cabin in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest.

  

A year later, on the anniversary of her disappearance, the rest of her bandmates visit the cabin to remember her and find a way to move on. But tensions arise over who should be their new singer and who is responsible for Brynn's disappearance-tensions that boil over as they realize not all is as it seems at Trail Creek Cabin.

  

Strange entries in the guestbook write about visions of a pale form that moves through the trees, figures wearing gas masks lurk in the distance, and there's a strange fungus growing from the wall of a tunnel in the cabin's basement. Then they hear Brynn's voice echo impossibly through the forest--and the pale form that emerges from the trees is her perfect likeness. Is it her ghost...or something else?

  

Brynn knew there was a secret in these woods. It's why she chased her muse here to finish her masterpiece. _The Midnight Muse_ is an alluring and grotesque dissection of self and fungus. Kaplan delivers an ominous spiral of psychological torment as the members of Queen Carrion slip into a more _natural_ skin.

### Author Biography

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.

**Number of Pages:** 350

**Dimensions:** 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** March 10, 2026

## Details

- **Price:** 30.95 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Horror, Nature & the Environment, Price Written on Book, Supernatural, Thrillers

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