Jacob Rollinson’s THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA is a contemporary tribute to Robert W. Chambers’s THE KING IN YELLOW. In a near-future of chaos and resurgent nationalism, three friends become entangled in the quest for a mysterious manuscript that appears to summon unholy powers and which unscrupulous corporations are hell-bent on seizing and using for their own ends.
THE TRUTH OF CARCOSA will be published by Union Square & Co in North America in January 2026.
Jacob Rollinson is represented by DHH Literary Agency.
Praise for The Truth of Carcosa
“The Truth of Carcosa is a metafictional masterpiece. A powerful blast of weird fiction that stays in the head long after it’s over.”
Tariq Ashkanani, author of the McIlvanney Prize-winning The Midnight King
“Rollinson may have cracked the code to discover how to find cosmic horror’s future in its surreal history.”
Tobias Carroll, author of In the Sight and Political Sign
“At once a cosmic horror and state-of-the-nation dystopia, a discourse on the power of language and a page-turner with the pace of a thriller—in Rollinson’s The Truth of Carcosa we see nothing less than the arrival of a major voice.”
Paul Cooper, historian, podcaster, and author of the acclaimed Fall of Civilizations: Stories and Greatness and Decline
“In Jacob Rollinson’s ambitious debut, a dark and chthonic power seeks to bring about hell on earth—but haven’t you noticed that hell is already here? The Truth of Carcosa is of its moment and eternal, suspenseful and inevitable, inhuman and deeply humane. Read it while the flames draw closer.”
Dan Kois, author of Hampton Heights
“Dark, elegant, and relentless, The Truth of Carcosa is dossier-horror at its finest—intimate, dangerous, and urgently of now. Rollinson presents a bold, lyrical, and unforgettable tale.”
Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters, Forgotten Sisters, and Loteria
Jacob Rollinson 