· Kate Jonez is raising funds for Book Covers for S.P. Miskowski's Haunting Novellas on Kickstarter! Russell Dickerson covers for three novellas that . Part ghost story, part generational small town drama, Knock Knock is a quietly chilling novel written with an assured and well-practiced hand. From the character work, which features some of the most complex and wonderfully flawed women I've read in recent memory (and I say this coming off of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle), to the cutting prose, it's clear that Miskowski knows her stuff/5(86). · In S.P. Miskowski’s remarkable first novel, Knock, Knock, the geography of the Pacific Northwest, with its dark woods, small and dying towns, and its attendant folklore, is prominent. Miskowski’s creation, Skillute, Washington, is not unlike King’s Derry, or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, but there are also hints of Hawthorne and Flannery O’Connor/5().
S.P. Miskowski's stories have been published by Identity Theory, Horror Bound Online Magazine, The Absent Willow Review, Other Voices, The Stranger and New Times, and will appear in Supernatural Tales 21 and the Omnium Gatherum anthology Detritus. She received two Swarthout prizes for fiction as an undergraduate, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, one for short stories and. S.P. Miskowski's debut novel, KNOCK KNOCK, and her first novella, DELPHINE DODD, have been shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. Both books are part of THE SKILLUTE CYCLE, which includes two more novellas: ASTORIA and IN THE LIGHT. All four books are published by Omnium Gatherum Media. Hello, Sign in. Account Lists Returns Orders. Cart.
Part ghost story, part generational small town drama, Knock Knock is a quietly chilling novel written with an assured and well-practiced hand. From the character work, which features some of the most complex and wonderfully flawed women I've read in recent memory (and I say this coming off of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle), to the cutting prose, it's clear that Miskowski knows her stuff. S. P. Miskowski is a multi-published speculative fiction writer who has received two Swarthout awards and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships throughout her career, among other honors. The novel, Knock Knock, made the short list for the Shirley Jackson Award in Knock Knock uses a familiar horror novel device - that of setting a novel firmly in one small, American town and telling of an evil that affects multiple generations in that town. In this case the setting is Skillute, a backwater American logging town, and the novel begins in the Sixties and progresses to the modern day.
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