Adam J. Spencer

A PALE HOLLER Drama ⋄ Horror As her brother lies dying, a guarded Appalachian woman realizes that a blight-defying American chestnut is claiming his teenage daughter just as it took her sister forty years ago - and must hold the girl through her father’s death before the holler completes its exchange.

PRAYPREY Animation ⋄ Fantasy After a zealot purges her city, a newly orphaned mantid girl must carry its last clutch of fourteen eggs across a dying world, hunted by her own kind and a sentient rot that feeds on death, wielding mercy as her only weapon.

NO THRONE ROOM Horror ⋄ Science Fiction The asteroid was an egg. As its terrain-mimicking hatchlings migrate toward the Rockies, consuming everything in their path, a doomsday prepper — finally right — and the estranged daughter visiting his compound must survive by the migration's only rule: don't be interesting.

KERES THRESHOLD Mystery ⋄ Science Fiction A grieving physicist whose father's suicide uncovers forty years of killing witnesses to keep reality from breaking has seventy-two hours to continue his arithmetic — or refuse it, and face what he was holding back.