Negative Space

Kinsfield is a failing New Hampshire mill town gripped by an epidemic of teenage suicides that no one can explain or stop. Against that backdrop, four adolescents—narrated in overlapping, contradictory voices by Ahmir, Jill, and Lu, all circling the magnetic, damaged Tyler—numb themselves with WHORL, a strange drug that delivers euphoria and terrible visions, and seems to thread its users through cracks in reality itself.

As Tyler sinks deeper into occult ritual and self-harm, drawing the others with him, the boundary between drug, haunting, and collective breakdown dissolves entirely. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a hypnotic, structurally daring work of cosmic and literary horror—a bleak, hallucinatory portrait of disaffected youth, generational trauma, addiction, and despair that refuses easy consolation.