About the Book
Deep in the backcountry of Oklahoma, a misfit militia of separatists has built a community armed with folk magic and firepower, holding the state at bay through sheer will and ritual.
When a skinhead crew raids the camp for their weapons cache, loyalties collapse overnight. Old alliances crumble. Bad decisions compound. And a serum their vanished leader left behind begins to infect them.
What follows is a war between the spirits of the place and the mutant creatures these men have become.
Berserker Club is folk horror shaped by Oklahoma dirt — a savage collision of rural noir, body horror, and pulp violence. At 34,000 words, it's designed to be read in a single sitting.
"We get mutants, green goo injections, and a gonzo fourth quarter that would fall apart in a lesser author's hands. Berserker Club is a tense, hallucinogenic mashup of genres exploring rebellion, community, masculinity in the modern age, and the desire to bridge the gap between nature and humanity. Pick up this book from one of the most exciting and bold authors working today." — Goodreads Reviewer
"It's rare to legit laugh out loud while reading, in fact I don't think I ever have. But Berserker Club gave me an honest to goodness chuckle. Such a fun read." — Substack review
What Kind of Book Is This?
Berserker Club sits at the intersection of weird fiction, rural noir, and folk horror. If you've ever been drawn to stories where the landscape itself becomes a character — where the Oklahoma plains carry a memory and a grudge — this is for you. It's not a comfortable book, but it's a precise one.
Readers who connect with writers like Joe Lansdale, Donald Ray Pollock, and Brian Evenson tend to find their way here. The DNA is weird Southern fiction pushed through an animist Oklahoma filter.
Read It If...
- You want a short novel that doesn't waste a single sentence
- You're interested in folk horror rooted in American geography rather than European tradition
- You've read Knockemstiff or The Devil All the Time and wanted something stranger
- You like your fiction to take the spirit world seriously
- You want to finish a book in one evening
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