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Cadwell Turnbull



aka Darkly Lem

Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State University's Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics. He was the winner of the 2014 NCSU Prize for Short Fiction and attended Clarion West 2016. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov's Science Fiction. His Asimov's short story "When the Rains Come Back" made Barnes and Noble's Sci-Fi & Fantasy's Short Fiction Roundup in April 2018. His Nightmare story "Loneliness Is in Your Blood" was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. His Asimov's novelette "Other Worlds and This One" was also selected by the anthology as a notable story. The Lesson is his debut novel.
 


Genres: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
September 2026

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All the Hidden Places
 
Series
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Novels
   The Lesson (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   Many Worlds (2023) (with Josh Eure)
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Books containing stories by Cadwell Turnbull
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Out There Screaming (2023)
An Anthology of New Black Horror
edited by
Jordan Peele
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Brave New Weird (2023)
(Best New Weird Horror, book 1)
edited by
Alex Woodroe

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Award nominations
2024 Manly Wade Wellman Award (shortlist) : We Are the Crisis
2024 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novel (nominee) : We Are the Crisis
2022 Manly Wade Wellman Award (shortlist) : No Gods, No Monsters
2022 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : No Gods, No Monsters
2021 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : No Gods, No Monsters


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The Villa, Once Beloved (2025)
Victor Manibo
"Manibo has penned a gothic family saga about the price of privilege - biting and raw, with an ensemble cast at odds with each other and themselves. And beneath this very real, immaculately-rendered drama, a simmering dread: dark secrets threatening to emerge, along with something much worse. The Villa, Once Beloved is a magnificent terror."
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Storyteller (2025)
Carina Bissett, Julie C Day and Craig Laurance Gidney
"Every tale in Storyteller is a gem - lush, dreamy, delicately strange. Together, they make a compelling argument: Tanith Lee should be on every shelf, writer and reader alike."
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The Canopy Keepers (2024)
(Scorched Earth , book 1)
Veronica G Henry
"Perfectly balanced between the fantastical and sharp reality, The Canopy Keepers is a genre-defying work as prescient as it is brilliant. Henry has written yet another extraordinary novel everyone should be reading."

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