Humboldt Cut

Jordan Peele and Chuck Tingle meet The Overstory in comedy writer Allison Mick’s darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California, only to unearth the monsters that lurk among the trees…

Jasmine Bay is a nurse for an Oakland mental health facility, battling her own demons, caught in a spiral of suicidal despair. Estranged from her brother James and his wife Tilly, who was once her best friend, Jas has chosen self-isolation to protect herself—even if it means denying herself a hopeful future with co-worker and potential love interest Henry Lewis.

When her godmother dies, Jas returns to Redceder for the funeral, a logging town where her grandfather William Whipple made a living deforesting the countryside, ripping and raping apart nature’s very foundations for corporate profits. As trees fell to axes and chainsaws, so did dozens of lumberjacks, falling prey to the dangers of their job—and to the ecoterrorism of Jas’s grandfather who was lynched for his crimes.

And buried in the haunted woods are even more dark secrets perpetrated by Jas’s family. Unnatural acts giving birth to entities made of human flesh and petrified bark, seeking to avenge the devastation that ravaged their land. It is an inheritance that threatens to consume the remnants of Jas’s family, and her very sanity. . .

Celebrated comedy writer Allison Mick’s Humboldt Cut exposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeer’s Annihilation and the psychological horror of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele.

Allison Mick is a comedian, visual artist, voice actor, and acclaimed author of eco-horror and speculative fiction, including Humboldt Cut, Dive, and Dark Waves. Her work appears in Trailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection (Devil’s Due Comics), The Hard Times (Mariner Books), the Los Suelos, CA interactive fiction anthology, Huffpo, Reductress, The Hard Times, and Macaulay Culkin’s BunnyEars.com. She also voices Cougara on the Adult Swim Shorts series High Moon Queen. Originally from the Greak Lakes, she owes money to Williams College and Northeastern University School of Law, trained in the San Francisco/Oakland standup comedy scene, and now lives in Los Angeles, CA. Visit her online at allison-mick.com.

• Publisher: Erewhon Books
  
• Publish Date: January 27, 2026
  
• Pages:  352
  
• Language: English
  
• Type: Hardcover
  
• EAN/UPC: 9781645662211
  
• Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches | 0.9 pounds
  
• BISAC Categories: Horror, Popular Fiction