~ announcing my horror-thriller-sci-fi novel WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM, about a local man gaining control over America’s insects and taking a road trip across Route 66.
*WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM* will be releasing November 30th, 2025!
Pitch: Local man gains power over insects and goes on a road trip across Route 66.
🦗Insectoid Violence
🦅Alternate USA Lore
🍄Mycoremediation
🛡️Paranormal FBI Detectives
🎭 Anarchist Vision Quest
🛣️ Road Trip
🤪 Descent into Madness!
Stats: Horror x Thriller x Comedy, 125K words
Status: Drafted > Revised > Edited > *Self-Publishing*
Title: Wherever He May Swarm
Form: Novel ~ 400 pages
Genre: Horror x Thriller x Science Fiction
Target Audience: Adults / fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Paul Verhoeven, David Cronenberg
Premise: A man down on his luck gains the ability to control insects. The FBI investigates. A young girl starts to have apocalyptic dreams. Chaos ensues…
Main Characters:
Local man Nidus Nash🦋 is an ex-con and ex-trucker, displaced by AI and in despair at a personal tragedy. One day, fate chooses him. Nidus realizes that he can control the will of insects en masse. He decides to take a road trip across America, gathering confrontations and atrocities and some new friends along the way.
Special Agent Evelyn Waters🛡️is a paranormal expert and the FBI’s best bet for the investigation into the “Bugman” Nidus Nash. Her and a handpicked team try to get a read on Nidus’ powers and box him in for capture. However, a mysterious entity within the U.S. government restricts the investigation and alters the strategic board with secret agents of their own. Evelyn must use every tactic available to understand Nidus and figure out what he truly wants before things escalate out of anyone’s control.
Online blogger Anita Ramirez🍄 is fifteen years old and starting out her summer vacation. She lives in Lake Placid, New York and her parents love her very much. Mom is on book tour and dad is baking cookies; Anita’s good grades have earned her a summer of leisure. Mom & dad appreciate her help most in the garden, where she wields an especially green thumb. // Anita secretly conspires nightly with the realm of fungi, her very soul somehow psychically connected to America’s mushroom networks. Soon, Anita starts to detect the rise of Nidus’ swarms in the southwest — and suffers from apocalyptic dreams of a world returned to nature.
*WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM* is a horror x action x thriller x satire dealing with the prospect of the Holocene Extinction touching down on insects < or > humanity next. Follow Nidus Nash on a road trip across an alternate future America, where the insects are striking back against the empire.
*Wherever He May Swarm* is a horror-thriller-comedy novel with lite sci-fi elements, set in an alternate future America with self-driving trucks, Gridcities, and paranormalities such as the possibility of telepathy and telekinesis.
A down-on-his-luck man named Nidus Nash gains the ability to control insects and decides to go on a road trip across Route 66. FBI Special Agent and parapsychological expert Evelyn Waters forms a team to investigate; however, she and the FBI are soon undermined by mysterious forces within the government that seek to use Nidus’ preternatural powers for their own gain. Elsewhere, a young girl named Anita Ramirez embarks on summer vacation. She carries an unconscious connection to the world of fungi and starts to have apocalyptic dreams…
A tense (and comedic!) showdown plays out between Nidus, the American landscape itself, and the full might of the U.S. military-industrial complex!
*Wherever He May Swarm* features a fast-paced blend of action, suspense, insectile ultraviolence, and a satirical take on conspiracy culture, the American empire, and Mankind’s endless battle versus Mother Nature. The story explores themes of postmodern individualism, government control, technological surveillance, and the natural world destruction & mass insect death of the ongoing Holocene Extinction.
I am very much inspired equally by Stephen King and Clive Barker in terms of character-based horror odysseys, as well as David Cronenberg and Paul Verhoeven regarding the potential black comedy of otherworldly transformations and imperial hyper-violence.
You can read Chapters 1-3 on z-punk, my Substack.
#UnhingedPitches
CONGRATULATIONS!‼️
Mother Nature drafted you into the Bug War🐛🐜🐝
Your foe is the United States military-industrial complex🌎💣
Good luck and godspeed!🫡
🪲 Insect Whisperer
🍄 Mycoremediation
🎭 Anarchist Vision Quest
🧠 Brainwyrms & 🤖Androids & 👤Tulpas
🛣️ Road Trip
🤪 Descent into Madness!
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Question: If every insect in North America became suddenly hostile and of one singular hive mind — and they decided they wanted to put an end to the human species — how long would that war last? #UnhingedPit
The plan is to release for sale WHEREVER HE MAY SWARM on November 30, 2025, available in eBook and paperback format via Draft2Digital on all major book platforms including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, and more.
For more information on SWARM and my other work, visit my author website: DylanOrosz.com
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