I. LONG FICTION
Blake-Plock’s long-form fiction tends toward ensemble narratives in which ordinary social groups encounter extraordinary disturbances. He is currently seeking literary representation for his novels.
Timber Shoal Point
Literary horror novel
77,000 words
When her selkie mother returns to the water, unleashing the retribution of an ancient blood pact upon a small and guilty riverine town, a 17-year-old girl must choose between the people she loves and the river that calls to her, knowing that giving herself to the river may be the only way to save them.
Status: seeking representation
The Restaurateur
Literary horror novel
63,000 words
After buying a long-abandoned restaurant in his coastal hometown, an ambitious restaurateur becomes possessed by the spirit of its dead owner while the woman who loves him uncovers a decades-long cycle of murder concealed beneath the rituals of fine dining and hospitality.
Status: seeking representation
If You See a Wolf
Literary horror novel
125,000 words
In the river valley that separates two suburban Maryland towns, a group of teenagers encounters a presence in the woods that may have been waiting for generations.
Status: in revision
Vanishing Fact
Literary horror novel
90,000 words
After a military experiment goes wrong, two teenage girls must hold onto love and truth while their Appalachian hometown is erased.
Status: in revision
The Southers
Literary horror novel
80,000 words
After her father's death, a young woman returns to her isolated mountain hometown and discovers that a vanished first wife, a network of missing girls, and a haunted house are all part of the same terrible secret. And it is one the town is willing to kill to protect.
Status: in development
Legs
Literary horror novel
90,000 words
In a quarantined beach town where the ocean turns deadly, a teenage girl must lead survivors against the environmental onslaught while being hunted by a human predator who believes he is carrying out divine justice.
Status: in development
After Math
Literary horror novel
80,000 words
In a near future that looks like the near past, a group of teens uncover a hidden system and a cult that feeds on what makes them human.
Status: in development
This document is periodically revised as new work appears.