From award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes a brilliant collection of short stories, including old favorites and brand-new adventures
Fourteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality.
A father and daughter traverse postapocalyptic America seeking safe haven and the truth about why the world ended. Three siblings write intimate letters as their society slips ever deeper into
dystopia.
On an island where locals use cooperative AI to survive hurricanes, a journalist returns home to cover their story and reconnect with her past. A wayward god sets out to find the source of all
gods. But can they survive to tell the tale?
After a whimsical attempt to teleport proves successful, a couple finds that their conflicting feelings about the event are threatening their marriage. In a world where multiple souls can inhabit
the same body, a recovering addict confronts his family about a terrible secret.
A monster who lives on human blood finds her undoing in the loneliness she carries within her heart.
In his debut collection, acclaimed novelist Cadwell Turnbull takes readers across an omniverse of monsters, gods, and people, all trying to make peace with the parts of themselves they don’t want
others to see. Until they are forced to face all their hidden places.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Turnbull’s short fiction is a universe of quiet marvels, piercing emotions, and bold imagination. I love his monsters, especially his werewolves, I love his flawed heroes, and I especially love all the subtle and incisive ways he explores human relationships—love, communities, family. This collection is a treasure trove of finely crafted stories and a must-read for any fan of speculative fiction.” —Maria Haskins, author of Six Dreams About the Train and Wolves & Girls
“Good stories deliver a kind of electric zap to the head and to the heart, and this is what Cadwell Turnbull’s stories do. I meant to read them more slowly, but instead I read one story and thought, ‘just one more,’ and having read one more thought again, ‘just one more,’ until I’d reached the end of the collection. I loved these stories individually, and as a collection they are a feast.” —Kelly Link, Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winning author of White Cat, Black Dog
“Haunting. Fantastic. Mesmerizing. All the Hidden Places takes readers on an imaginative ride with spellbinding tales of dystopian futures, the monsters that live among us, wandering gods, and more. Cadwell Turnbull is one of the most gifted storytellers of our age—and in this latest offering, he does not disappoint!” —P. Djèlí Clark, Nebula, Locus, and British Fantasy Award–winning author of A Master of Djinn
“A dazzling collection of speculative stories from one of the top talents in the field, All the Hidden Places displays Cadwell Turnbull’s wide-ranging imagination and unique vision: Dystopian worlds, ancient magic, and monsters from Caribbean folklore merge in stories unlike anything else you’ve ever read or ever will. At the same time, no matter how cosmic the scale, Turnbull never loses sight of the human dimension—the fears, struggles for connection, and hard-won moments of grace that define our lives.” —Joshua David Bellin, author of Myriad
“All the Hidden Places is, in a word, spectacular. Turnbull spins aching, vibrant connections between his characters and their families, their communities, their monsters, and their gods. Each story is constructed with reverence and precision; together, they are facets of an astonishing universe. Turnbull is a Grandmaster in the making.” —Emma Osborne, author of Grief Eater
“Any excuse to get lost in Cadwell Turnbull’s words is a cause for celebration, but a collection of his short stories is a feast. His stories burrow under your skin, alive with both historical memory and current events. His characters navigate a landscape that have been broken in all-too-familiar ways. Asking what it means to survive an unraveling of life while trying to make sense of it. And yet there is a persistent, unsentimental compassion to his work. Luminous, strange, and deeply human, now is your excuse to get lost in Cadwell Turnbull’s worlds.” —Maurice Broaddus, librarian, community organizer, and author of the Astra Black trilogy
“Whether it’s within our own world, or some landscape beyond our imagining, Cadwell Turnbull renders in precise prose what it means to be human: how we love, fear, and try to be. These stories serve as both a mirror and a guide, at times terrifying in their clarity, but always moving and enjoyable to read.” —Isabel Yap, author of Never Have I Ever: Stories
“Here is a collection of marvels—tales of horror, politics (but I repeat myself), loss, and creation—artfully constructed and beautifully told. Turnbull’s voice is unique and unforgettable, fantastic and fantastical.” —Karen Joy Fowler, Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author of Booth
“Among the most hidden of the hidden places revealed in Cadwell Turnbull’s stories is the human heart. In ‘The Letters Tryptych’—three stories, each from the point of view of one of three siblings in the dystopian future US that we seem to be headed for—we see how the technological affects the social which affects the political which affects the personal. The resulting chain of action and reaction, tragedy and hope, shows how speculative fiction can present a true picture of actual people in the actual world. ‘A promise is a sandcastle; time, a tide.’” —John Kessel, Nebula Award–winning author of The Moon and the Other and Pride and Prometheus
“Cadwell Turnbull is a true cosmic cartographer. Charting worlds unknown with an empathic eye, Turnbull maps hearts human, monstrous, and godly, illustrating through evocative, beautiful fiction that the boundaries between the three are thinner than we think. Unfurl this map, and get ready to discover his uncanny and excellent hidden places.” —Martin Cahill, USA Today bestselling author of Audition for the Fox
“One of the things I admire most about Cadwell Turnbull’s writing is the way he holds a theme up to the light. He’s not afraid to examine big topics—mortality and immortality, souls, time, gods and creation—but always allows the reader to view them through the lens of character. His stories are populated with people who stay and people who go, with survivors, with monsters and mages, all of whom themselves ask those same hard questions. These are rich stories that resonate long past their reading.” —Sarah Pinsker, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea and Lost Places
Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson and the Convergence Saga. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed,
Nightmare, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and Out There Screaming: An Anthology of
New Black Horror. His novel The Lesson won the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. His novel No Gods, No Monsters was the winner of a Lambda
Award, longlisted for the Pen Open Award, and a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. Turnbull grew up on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
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