Michael Bettendorf's debut New Weird Horror gamebook/novel Trve Cvlt will be published by Tenebrous Press in late-2024. In this interview, we discuss his inspiration, try our best to define "New Weird Horror" (the Tenebrous Press website does a much better job), and get into some very strange things that happened in his hometown (Spoilers: It's spooky!).

About the Author:

Michael Bettendorf is a speculative fiction writer from Nebraska, primarily interested in genre blending sci-fi, horror, and crime, often inspired by his Midwestern upbringing. He is a library technician in Lincoln where he earned an English degree from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln with an emphasis in creative writing in 2012. Michael’s work has been nominated for the 2022 Brave New Weird award at Tenebrous Press, Best Short Fiction (2021), Best of the Net (2021), and spent some time writing critical essays about comics. He lives in Lincoln with his partner and dog, where he tries to convince the world that Nebraska is too strange to be a flyover state.

He can be found on Twitter (@BeardedBetts) and on Bluesky (@beardedbetts.bsky.social)

Visit his website here.