I’m so happy I have cover art for my forthcoming novel Noir Falling to share with you!
The image is “The Draw Bridge” by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (ca. 1761), used with permission from the Princeton University Art Museum, part of a series that the features prominently as a… setting… in my story, so I am quite pleased that Jacob Floyd, publisher at Nightmare Press, and designer Christy Aldridge were able to transform it into such an attractive cover.
The novel, about which I’ll say more as the press releases more information, is primarily surrealist, but also a film-noir-inspired, conspiracy- and paranoia-fueled mystery, with a lot of philosophical reflection that is generally relevant to the plot, without a lot of attention to conventional narrative… some of my best work.
And, it’s not really horror, so if you can’t stomach my other work, you might enjoy this one!
L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. He owns and serves as publisher and primary editor for fiction imprint Horrific Scribblings, which, among other things, publishes Horrific Scribes, a web archive of dark fiction (and some poetry). His works include novels and novellas The Skinner Effect, Father Is Pleased, The Middle Reaches (a series), Alex’s Escape, Noir Falling, Records of the Hightower Massacre [with Maeva Wunn], Crazy Time, Burning the Middle Ground, and Descending Lines; short story collections Stains of Atrocity, Peritoneum, and Leaping at Thorns; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Dario Argento and Gothic Realities; co-edited fiction anthologies Reel Dark and Imagination Reimagined; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written 35 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Princeton and Harvard, he used his Ph.D. to teach about favorite topics from coast to coast in the United States. He now focuses on writing and lives with his husband and cat in North Hollywood, California.
