
“A maze of crashing dimensions filled with monsters and madness.” — Philip Fracassi, author of Boys in the Valley “The narrative switchbacks along The Eris Ridge Trail are razor sharp and utterly mind-bending, so pack a compass before diving in.” — Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes From award-winning author Larry Hinkle comes The Eris Ridge Trail, a cosmic horror road trip, with dogs. You won’t find the Eris Ridge Trail on any map. You won’t find the people who go missing on it, either. The Eris Ridge Trail has no beginning. No end. It runs forever, connecting realities across space and time. Four travelers find themselves lost on the Trail… A novice reporter who learns that some shortcuts are anything but. A grieving author who’s reunited with his dead dog in the tunnels beneath a haunted hotel. A young man who tries a new ride-share app that abandons him in the space between Nebraska and Colorado. A seasoned hiker and his aging dog who discover the remains of a six-legged rodent near the sign for a trail they’ve never heard of. Disoriented by an ever-changing landscape and hunted by otherworldly predators, can they work together long enough to find their way home, or will they fall prey to the cosmic beast that guards the Trail?
Author

Larry Hinkle is the least famous writer you’ve never heard of. A copywriter living with his wife and two doggos in Rockville, Maryland, when he's not writing stories that scare people into peeing their pants, he writes ads that scare people into buying adult diapers so they’re not caught peeing their pants. "The Eris Ridge Trail," his new cosmic horror road trip novella (with dogs!) was released in March 2025, while his debut collection, “The Space Between,” came out in February 2024. His work has also appeared in "October Screams: A Halloween Anthology," "The Rack: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks," and The NoSleep Podcast, among others. He's an active member of the HWA (his short stories made the preliminary Stoker ballot in 2020 and 2022); a graduate of Fright Club and Crystal Lake’s Author’s Journey program; an HWA mentee; and a survivor of the Borderlands Writers Bootcamp.