Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan lives on a communal homestead on Kunanyi/Mt Wellington, where he creates sanctuary for other weirdos, raises books, people, and ideas from the grave. He has had novels and non-fiction published by Collective Ink Books, Three Hands Press. Witches Almanac, and Rebel Satori. Highlights of his career have involved speaking about his books at Watkins Books in London, receiving an Australian Post-Graduate award where he got paid to research, and participating in The People's Library artwork in Tasmania. Having survived an enormous tumour, where surgeons warned his intellect might be impacted, and a series of further complications, Lee is currently busy filling the fresh room in his skull with new brains. His time is taken up by research, working on the property, and writing a kind of Folk Horror that cross-pollinates in hybrid, monstrous ways with other art-forms. He is greatly blessed with an incredible support network, especially in his immediate coven brothers and sisters. And with the presence of a kelpie rescue dog named Clementine, who doesn't perform any of the working dog jobs one might have hoped for, but is loved despite this fact.
“We didn’t get to choose the stories we inherit.”
The rag and bone man comes meandering along your street in the dawn hours. He’s looking for old things that still have a bit of fat left in them, including off-cuts of outsiders’ dreams. If you decide to stop and talk to him, he will tell you the old tales of how to tease out the teeming world of spirits that bulges behind our reality. The Rag & Bone Man’s uncanny narrative, bookended with historical context and a grimoire inspired by the novel, bridges the gap between old ideas and new paradigms with a watchful eye on historical biases.
Lee Morgan covers sensationalism and fraud in 19th century spiritualism and the ways we manipulated folklore and magic to cover and recontextualize our wrongdoings in this luminous novel. Some of The Rag & Bone Man’s extra content focuses on the importance of sensory pleasure and alignment with the fetch, while crossing ectoplasmic lines to help you conduct a seance. The rag and bone man is a fixture in the novel’s real life setting and is included in a performance art installation you can experience through a QR code in the book. It’s time to sneak into the rag and bone man’s world — the stories he’s picked up will break your heart.
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-964537-71-9 | Paperback ISBN: 978-1-964537-52-8 | Page Count: 350
Dimensions: 6.25“ x 9.25“ | Format: Paperback, Hardcover | Publication Date: 11/25/2025