Newfangle Press

There is a precise age where you stop checking under the bed before turning off the light. It isn’t because you stop believing something could be hiding in the dark. It’s because you reach a silent agreement with yourself: if there is something down there, you’d rather not confirm it. Jeff Provine has never made that agreement. In Never Sleep Again , Jeff takes the modern mythology we tell ourselves, the urban legends whispered at sleepovers, the unexplained noises in old machinery, the stories passed around because somebody swears they really happened, and asks the question you absolutely should not ask when you're alone at night: But what if it's true? So we asked Jeff what supposedly supernatural or unexplained thing genuinely creeps him out. His answer was: the night hag . It’s the shadowy figure that sits on your chest while you sleep, sometimes described as draining your life. There are modern explanations for the experience, including sleep paralysis. Comforting, right? ...

 We almost didn't read Fortunate Son . The manuscript arrived under a different title, one that gave us completely the wrong idea about the book. It sounded esoteric, far outside anything we were interested in publishing, and for a moment the easiest decision would have been to move on. Fortunately, we opened it anyway. What we found was Moe Richards, seventeen years old in the summer of 1992, dropping out of high school and discovering that freedom isn't particularly useful when you have no idea what to do with it. There was no mysticism. No spiritualism. Just a kid trying to figure out what becoming a man was supposed to mean when nobody had given him particularly good instructions. And we kept reading. That's the strange thing about choosing books. You can talk about markets and genres and audiences. You can make lists of what you're looking for. You can develop criteria and convince yourself that the process is rational. Then somebody sends you a story. Somewhere ar...

One of these books has vampires. The other has a seventeen-year-old high-school dropout trying to figure out what he's supposed to do with the rest of his life. We published both. There's a reason. The Ingénue takes place in a Cincinnati where Sorcha Mackenzie's disappearance on Halloween night drags mortals into the cold, ash-gray machinery of the undead. Fortunate Son takes place in a sweltering 1992 small-town America where Moe Richards is drowning in anxiety and trying to figure out what family actually means when the bloodline is broken. On the surface, they share nothing. One is a dark supernatural novel about things that bite; the other is a raw, grounded coming-of-age story about a kid standing on the edge of a trackless summer. Except both are interested in what happens when people inherit circumstances they didn't choose: family, history, expectations, damage. The things handed to us before we ever get a say in what we're carrying. One book has vampires....

There is an entire ecosystem out there dedicated to making everything frictionless and weightless. Endless scrolling, algorithms deciding what might hold your attention for another few seconds, stories becoming content becoming something else to swipe past. We miss paper. We miss ink. We miss the counterexample to disposability—something somebody made and somebody chose to keep, carrying the physical weight of months of isolated, agonizing work dragged out of the dark. Newfangle Press didn't start because we thought the world needed another content mill. It started because we wanted to publish stories that feel like they were written by someone sitting across a table from you in a room with bad lighting and a cold cup of coffee. Stories that don't apologize for being strange, dark, or quietly devastating. If you’ve noticed us being quiet for the last couple of years, congratulations: you’re paying closer attention than most of the internet. But we aren't going to offer up a...

This Isn't The End, a heartfelt and magical story, is now available! Buy your copy today.

Lucky , an action-packed romp through pool halls and criminal organizations, is available now!