Jordan Peele and Chuck Tingle meetThe Overstoryin comedy writer Allison Micks darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California, only to unearth the monsters that lurk among the trees

Jasmine Bay is a nurse for an Oakland mental health facility, battling her own demons, caught in a spiral of suicidal despair. Estranged from her brother James and his wife Tilly, who was once her best friend, Jas has chosen self-isolation to protect herselfeven if it means denying herself a hopeful future with co-worker and potential love interest Henry Lewis.

When her godmother dies, Jas returns to Redceder for the funeral, a logging town where her grandfather William Whipple made a living deforesting the countryside, ripping and raping apart natures very foundations for corporate profits. As trees fell to axes and chainsaws, so did dozens of lumberjacks, falling prey to the dangers of their joband to the ecoterrorism of Jass grandfather who was lynched for his crimes.

And buried in the haunted woods are even more dark secrets perpetrated by Jass family. Unnatural acts giving birth to entities made of human flesh and petrified bark, seeking to avenge the devastation that ravaged their land. It is an inheritance that threatens to consume the remnants of Jass family, and her very sanity. . .

Celebrated comedy writer Allison MicksHumboldt Cutexposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeersAnnihilationand the psychological horror ofThe Only Good Indiansby Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.

Allison Mickis a comedian, visual artist, voice actor, and acclaimed author of eco-horror and speculative fiction, includingHumboldt Cut, Dive,andDark Waves.Her work appears inTrailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection(Devils Due Comics),The Hard Times(Mariner Books), theLos Suelos, CAinteractive fiction anthology, Huffpo, Reductress, The Hard Times, and Macaulay Culkins BunnyEars.com. She also voices Cougara on the Adult Swim Shorts seriesHigh Moon Queen. Originally from the Greak Lakes, she owes money to Williams College and Northeastern University School of Law,trained in the San Francisco/Oakland standup comedy scene, and now lives in Los Angeles, CA. Visit her online at allison-mick.com.

• Publisher: Erewhon Books
• Publish Date: January 27, 2026
• Pages: 352
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9781645662211
• Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches | 0.9 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Horror, Popular Fiction