Welcome to Rot Land — where respectability is a thin coat of paint and the house next door might be eating itself alive.
Mad Mary hoards rubbish like relics. Tim communes with invisible authorities. Barra the Soul Scrubber tries to boil his sins away in a pot he can’t climb out of.
This is suburbia cracked open: filth turned into ritual, gossip into scripture, decay into a kind of faith.
Dark, bleakly funny, and disturbingly familiar, Rot Land is a modern parable about the rot we live with, the rot we hide, and the rot that always finds a way to spread.
Dark bleatings, my (definitely NOT!) rotten tribe! I’m here with a horror book announcement today. This festering volume was released at the end of December, and it’s slithering towards your TBR as we speak!
Michael Mulvihill presents us with ‘Rot Land’, a bleak work of dystopian psychological horror set in a recognisably ordinary suburb, where respectability is a thin coat of paint and decay is allowed to thrive. The horror does not come from monsters or spectacle, but from obsession, ritualised behaviour, and the quiet violence of social systems that continue functioning long after they’ve rotted through.
The author tells us…
“The novel grew out of an interest in how everyday social systems decay while still appearing orderly, and how people adapt to that decay rather than resist it. I wanted to write a form of horror rooted in familiarity – where dread comes from recognition rather than the unknown. The tone is deliberately anti-reassuring, aiming to unsettle rather than comfort.”
If you’d like to give this little baddie a go, you can find it at….
Michael Mulvihill is an Irish novelist whose work blends philosophy, satire, and the strange beauty of human struggle. He is the author of Utopianoids, Rot Land, Hypnosaga (a history of hypnotism), and the forthcoming vampire epic Ethagoria. His fiction often explores fractured societies, haunted landscapes, and the fragile line between sanity and myth.
His books mix dark humour, sharp realism, and an unflinching look at power, memory, and survival.
He lives in Ireland, where he continues to write, train, and build strange worlds late into the night.
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