Crystal Lake Publishing Launches Dark Reservoir The newest work by critically acclaimed Bram Stoker Award Winners Nzondi and Cindy O’Quinn

Released and published by Crystal Lake Publishing

The books are available worldwide in print and e-format

(LOS ANGELES, CA) Crystal Lake Publishing is thrilled to announce the release of Dark Reservoir by Cindy O’Quinn and Nzondi. O’Quinn is a Bram Stoker Award®–winning author whose fiction and poetry blend Appalachian folklore, dark lyricism, and haunting explorations of the human spirit. Her poetry has been nominated for the Elgin, Dwarf Star, and Rhysling Awards.

Dark Reservoir is an exploration of what remains after unimaginable loss. Through award-winning horror fiction, haunting poetry, and deeply personal nonfiction, Bram Stoker Award-winning authors Nzondi and Cindy O’Quinn guide readers through three emotional descents—Ghosts of Heartbreak, Blind Fury, and Mind Rot—where trauma, grief, survival, and the supernatural converge.

These are stories of ordinary people forced to endure extraordinary pain. Some are haunted by ghosts. Others by memory. All are confronted by the lingering question of what survives after tragedy.
Inspired by both imagination and lived experience, Dark Reservoir is not simply a horror collection. It is a meditation on resilience, the cost of survival, and the ghosts—literal and metaphorical—that refuse to let us go.

NY Times bestselling author, Jonathan Maberry, says this of the book: “
Dark Reservoir is a mind-bending collection of poems and short stories that take the reader into the darkest corners of human experience. Bold, unexpected, and deeply insightful! Highly recommended!”

About the Authors

Native New Yorker Nzondi is a Bram Stoker Award®–winning author whose work blends psychological horror with emotionally driven speculative fiction. His YA novel Oware Mosaic won the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel, making him the first African American author to receive the honor in a novel category. His writing explores themes of trauma, identity, love, grief, and survival, often placing emotionally complex characters in extraordinary circumstances.

Cindy O’Quinn is a five-time Bram Stoker Award ® nominated writer. Author of “Lydia,” from the Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology,
A Twisted Book of Shadows, “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road,” “A Gathering on the Mountain,” “One and Done,” and “Quondam.” Her poetry has been nominated for the Elgin, Rhysling and Dwarf Star Awards.

To request additional review copies or an interview with Nzondi and/or Cindy, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.

We look forward to the coverage!