In 2019, Texan Shaun Hamill published “A Cosmology of Monsters,” a horror novel in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft. Garnering a write up with NPR, landing on Goodreads Choice Readers Best Horror of 2019 semifinalist list, and a review from Stephen King who said “If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it”, Hamill’s debut novel set in a small fictional Texas town generated a great bit of buzz. Hamill is back with his second novel, “The Dissonance.”