Jaroslav Konáš
Jaroslav Konáš is a freelance music and gaming publicist. He writes for well-known Czech monthly music magazines, records podcasts about video game music and is the author of many shows on the Stream. Cz platform. Here and there, he publishes in other media as well. In 2018, he debuted with the novel Dominika, a tribute to Prague and magical realism. His latest novel, City in the Fog, is a folk horror piece set in the Sudetenland. It pays homage to Jaroslav’s other favourite genre, weird fiction.
City in the Fog
October 2023, 192 pages
It is a dark mystery thriller with a dense, Lovecraftian-like atmosphere.
Robin Verner works in advertising, but he also harbours ambitions of becoming a writer. That is why he jumps on board when he gets an unexpected and at-first-glance strange offer to teach creative writing at a high school in the mountain town of Rozklava, viewing it as an opportunity to take a breather, get his ducks in a row—and write another book.
The thing is, Rozklava is not your ordinary town—it is a place frozen in time. The internet connection doesn’t work, the locals have never heard of a cellphone, and the radio only plays eighties hits. And in the town’s deep woods, people sometimes go missing after being sacrificed to a strange cult. Robin’s working holiday quickly takes an unexpected turn and turns into a genuinely terrifying experience.