Forthcoming in Winter 2027: THE TERRIBLE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dalkey Archive Press acquires Michael Bible’s The Terrible

DALLAS, TX — Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press have acquired World English rights to The Terrible by Michael Bible, from Michael Mungiello at Inkwell Management. Structured as a series of interviews, The Terrible moves between the narrator’s imagined memories of a past life as Ivan the Terrible’s brother, and his more recent recollections as a father careening through modern American society. A novel in the tradition of Denis Johnson and Barry Hannah, The Terrible will appeal to readers who are drawn to innovations of language, emotionally provocative and tragicomic circumstances, complex character interiority, and voice-driven fiction that resists traditional storytelling.

The Terrible is slated to be published in Fall/Winter 2026-2027.

Michael Bible is the author of the novels Sophia, Empire of Light, The Ancient Hours (Melville House) and Little Lazarus (Clash Books). His books have been translated into Spanish with Gatopardo Editions and into Italian with Adelphi Editions. He’s the screenwriter of the feature film Dogleg, now streaming on MUBI. His work can be seen in The Oxford American, The Baffler, Paris Review Daily, New York Tyrant, Forever Magazine, Southwest Review, BBC Radio, The Guardian, Joyland, and LA Review of Books among others. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Believer, and NPR. Born in North Carolina, he attended Sewanee: The University of the South and received an MFA from The University of Mississippi under the mentorship of Barry Hannah. He lives in Manhattan. 

Dalkey Archive Press is a publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, specializing in the publication or republication of lesser-known, often avant-garde works.

Deep Vellum is a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts organization with the mission to bring the world into conversation through literature. Founded in 2013 in Dallas, TX, Deep Vellum has expanded to encompass six distinct publishing imprints and is now the largest publisher of translated literature in the United States.