Brain Fever: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe

“Androsphere” is a groundbreaking graphic novella with augmented reality created, written, and illustrated by a team of Colombian queer artists and published by Secret Horror. Available in Spanish and English. Release date: October 2026.

The story follows the search for Kiki, a missing undercover agent who has uncovered a sinister truth about the now-abandoned school he once attended outside of Bogotá. When Kiki disappears, he leaves behind a letter for his former best friend, Paco. Driven by love, guilt, and shame, Paco enters the school’s ruins, hoping to find him there.

Inside, Paco descends into a twisted reality that reflects Kiki’s emotional world, and the horrific past concealed in its corridors. Haunted by ghoulish children desperate to fit into a hypersexualized world, gay men trapped in cycles of self-hatred, otherworldly monsters – the school becomes a pulsing, living entity. The story is told through the vision of Bogotá-based queer writers and artists Luis Carlos Barragán, Melanconnie, and Faebian Ceruleo.

Scan the pages with a free augmented reality app to see the story come to life with real scenes from the actual abandoned haunted school where the story takes place. Embedded in the comic are clues and puzzles to artifacts and treasures from Kiki’s life.

Peabody Award winning filmmaker, and former NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu is the author The Blood Countess, a novel (Simon & Schuster) and many other collections. With his family, he fled the brutal Communist dictatorship in Romania in 1965 and later covered the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 for NPR and ABC’s Nightline. Andrei Codrescu’s poetic voice will lend a distinct style to the narration, which many Americans will remember from his regular appearances on NPR’s All Things Considered.