Named one of Literary Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025 WINNER, First Horizon Award for Outstanding First Book, Eric Hoffer Awards (2026) WINNER, Best Academic Press Book, Eric Hoffer Awards (2026) FINALIST, Short Story Fiction, American Fiction Awards (2026) FINALIST, Short Stories, National Indie Excellence Awards (2026) Animals inhabit the edges of the stories in American Animism, the astonishing debut collection from Jamey Gallagher. Veering between realism and magical realism, each story illuminates something necessary, something true. A girl working in a cryptid museum, a boy in the attic of a gift shop on Mystery Hill, a vacation house in Nova Scotia where strange things happen: these are stories of transformation and becoming.