False Bodiesby J.R. McConvey

A genre-bending noir, and perhaps the squiddiest novel ever written, False Bodies creates a horror/thriller blend of the renowned Newfoundland culture seen in shows like Come From Away with the heart-pounding tension and creeping fear of Alien.

False Bodies follows monster hunter Eddie "The Yeti" Gesner to Newfoundland, to investigate a mass death on an offshore oil rigwhich some say is the work of a kraken. A mysterious incident in Eddie's life has made him obsessed with chasing unfathomable things, but when an antique diary plunges him into a watery world of squid cults, tentacled beasts and corporate greed, Eddie finds even his own fractured reality pushed to the brink, as he's forced to confront an undersea power beyond human imagining. (From Breakwater Books)

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J.R. McConvey is a writer and documentary producer from Toronto. His debut short story collectionDifferent Beastswaspublished in2019 andwonfor the 2020 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for speculative fiction. CBC Books named him a writer to watch in 2020.

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In 2016, McConvey made the longlist for the CBC Poetry Prize.