Fear is only the first step
STEP INTO THE LIMINAL ZONE
Immundus
A Western Navajo Folktale
Published
March 11, 2025
Format
Novelette, 82 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Liminal (form. Abbycat Entertainment)
Author
Jack Chase
The desert knows your secrets. And it always collects its debts
Justin, a disgraced screenwriter and recovering addict, retreats to a remote cabin in Joshua Tree, hoping to outrun his failures and reignite his career. But the land is old. The wind carries whispers. The shadows move when they shouldn’t. And something ancient, something hungry, is watching.
When Justin stumbles upon a ritual that has claimed men for over a century, he learns the truth: this desert doesn’t just bury the lost: it consumes them. And now, it has chosen him.
First published in 2025 to critical acclaim, Immundus is a modern Western steeped in Navajo folklore, psychological unrest, and moral decay. Set against the barren edges of the American Southwest, it’s a slow, unnerving descent into paranoia, isolation, and the quiet cost of redemption; a visceral meditation on guilt and survival that, much like the rest of the author's work, defies easy categorization.
Immundus: A Western Navajo Folktale, Remastered and Expanded Edition is a brutal, operatic descent into madness, myth, and memory. Blending Western grit with Navajo legend and cosmic horror, the story unfolds on a haunted desert ranch where a disgraced TV writer confronts a force older than the land itself—one that feeds on regret, fear, and forgotten sins.
Critics of the original novelette called it “terrifying,” “unforgettable,” and “a masterful debut.”
Fully remastered and expanded into novella form, this definitive edition featured new chapters, sharpened prose, immersive historical detail, and a final act ripped straight from the underworld.
Published
June 23, 2025
Format
Novella, 148 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Liminal
Author
Jack Chase
Immundus
Remastered and Expanded Edition
A fractured debut of interlinked stories set across desert test towns, roadside motels, and postwar Hollywood, this collection explores isolation, obsession, and the quiet violence of American interior lives.
In a desert town built for nuclear testing, a sleepless engineer watches his silverware vanish piece by piece.
A man on the run checks into a motel room that already belongs to someone else.
A woman calls her boyfriend ninety-seven times from a roadside motel after a fight. When he finally arrives, she’s calmer and kinder than he’s ever seen her—and knows things she shouldn’t.
On the night of January 9, 1947, a sleepless cartoonist shares coffee with a young woman in a Hollywood diner—hours before she becomes the most infamous murder victim in Los Angeles history.
A group of teenagers celebrate graduation at a mountain cabin, where a stranger appears on the trail and behaves like a lifelong friend.
Spare, unsettling, and quietly devastating, this debut marks the emergence of a singular voice operating between noir, psychological realism, and American myth.
Published
February 10, 2026
Format
Novella, 173 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Liminal
Author
Julian Mercer
Collaborator
Jack Chase (“Camp Doom”, “Moonlight Jazz”)
Bad Times with Julian Mercer
Volume I
A former middleweight disappears into Marrow's Point—a borough that isn't on most maps—and descends into an underground fight circuit run by a wealthy, eccentric impresario. The plan is simple: win, climb, and rob him blind.
But someone keeps calling.
Same blocked number. Every day.
He doesn't answer.
The fights get worse.
The borough stops making sense.
Time skips.
The phone keeps ringing.
By the time he picks up, he's not sure what he's been running toward—or what he's been running from.
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Published
February 10, 2026
Format
Short story, 41 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Liminal
Author
Jack Chase
Dreidel Theory
What would you do if you woke up inside the life you always wanted?
Arthur Meyersworth is twenty-seven and stuck—stuck in a mediocre advertising job, stuck in a decaying apartment in Reseda, stuck being perpetually “next in line” for a promotion that never comes. Once a promising DJ, now a cubicle fixture and break room zombie, Arthur copes the way he always has: too much alcohol, late-night television, and the quiet hope that tomorrow might feel different.
Then he wakes up in the Hollywood Hills.
Arthur is suddenly rich, famous, and successful. The career he dreamed about is real. The house is immaculate. The city opens its doors to him without hesitation. He’s become the version of himself he always believed he was supposed to be.
But something is wrong.
The woman in his bed looks at him like a stranger. Conversations feel rehearsed. Certain memories don’t belong to him. And beneath the surface of this perfect upgrade is a question Arthur can’t escape:
If he’s here… where did the other version of him go?
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Published
February 10, 2026
Format
Vignette, 56 pages
Imprint
Abbycat Liminal
Author
Jack Chase