The Long Nights
#1 Best seller in Contemporary Fantasy and Vampire Thriller (plus more), a Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off 8 Semi-Finalist and the 2021 Indies Today Awards: Runner-Up in Horror.
Troubled artist by day, even more troubled occult specialist by night – a psychic searches a vampire’s mind to find his victims before they wake in this 90s retro urban fantasy.
But some minds are more treacherous than others …
The Nightwalker Killings: bodies drained and tucked away in the abandoned corners of Carthage City Oldtown. The oddity of their stalled decay was a mystery … until the latest victim woke in a fury of teeth and claws.
Joe Kellerman, an artist with psychic abilities who works with a group of occult Specialists, finds himself face to face with the vampire known as the Nightwalker.
The Long Nights is Tom Mock’s debut noir urban fantasy horror, and the first book published in the Joe Kellerman series.
“This book is as solid as a diamond! And as brilliant, too.”
― Douglas Lumsden, author of A Troll Walks Into A Bar
“Atmospheric and deliciously dark.”
― Peter Hartog, author of Bloodlines
“A slow-burn creepy noir-fest … It’s brilliant and it’s dark and it’s poetic and it’s addictive, and boy, is some of the writing here simply astonishing for a debut. I fell headfirst into this moody read in a way I rarely do.”
― EL Crocker, author of Lightfall
Tom Mock
I’m a North Carolina based fantasy and horror author and editor. I earned an English/Creative Writing degree from East Carolina University, where I was selected as an outstanding undergraduate creative writer. I have a Masters in English from North Carolina State University, where I did my best to read all the assignments. I’m a slow reader, but I did my best. (The Victorian novel class may have been a mistake.)
My debut urban fantasy novel The Long Nights is a #1 Best Seller (for a few days, but hey!), a SPFBO8 Semi-Finalist, and won the 2021 Indies Today Awards: Runner-up in Horror, which I’m very excited about since I spent 13 years working on it – writing, rewriting, rethinking, and rewriting it again (with other projects and time off in-between). It’s the first in a series I intend to write more in, though the follow-up novel has been much delayed due to revisions.
My short fiction has been selected as a finalist in the Press 53 awards and nominated for a pushcart prize. I write about outsiders and ghosts and magic.
I love dogs and cats, and am forever helping my parents with their small horse farm.
Interviews
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