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15 Serial Killers by Harold Jaffe
Taking as his text Georges Bataille's insight that "only at the extremes is there freedom," critically acclaimed "guerrilla writer" Harold Jaffe documents Bataille's aperçu with 15 bone-chilling illustrations. Manson, Starkweather, Speck, Son of Sam, the Night Stalker, Aileen Wuornos, the Unabomber, Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Kemper, Kevorkian and Kissinger are not merely present and accounted for, they are rendered into a "reality TV" that you've never seen before. Widely praised as a virtuoso stylist, Jaffe employs a number of narrative stratagems, such as letters, monologues, interviews and "unsituated dialogues" to torque the flattened, cartoon-like serial killers into a potently unnerving third dimension. As in False Positive, Straight Razor, Eros Anti-Eros and Sex for the Millennium, Jaffe's "docufictions" are at the same time lucid, intricate, gruesome, infinitely sad, and hilarious. At the end we are left with a profoundly incisive commentary on America's insatiable consumption of extremity, conveniently masked as moral condemnation.
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100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories by Michael A. Arnzen 2005 Stoker nominee
100 Jolts features one hundred short shots of fiction guaranteed to stun. Arnzen has honed his craft to deliver the highest voltage using the fewest words. As a recipient of both the Bram Stoker and the International Horror Guild awards, Arnzen knows the electric current of fear like no other.
"100 Jolts delivers far more than is promised by its title; with this magnificent collection of literate and disturbing short-shorts, some which are among the darkly funniest I've ever read, Arnzen can rightfully claim his place as the Donald Barthelme of horror. This book is a remarkable achievement." —Gary A. Braunbeck, author of In Silent Graves and Graveyard People
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Issue 9
With a surgeon's skill, editor Kevin L. Donihe stitches a diverse collection of fiction and poetry together to bring Bare Bone to life. Another Dr. Frankenstein, he assembles the pieces of others, birthing one complete monster to send lurching towards the darkness.
Stories from past issues have received Honorable Mentions in several editions of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and another was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #13. Bare Bone is now a bi-annual anthology.
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Issue 5
With a surgeon's skill editor Kevin L. Donihe stitches a diverse collection of fiction and poetry together to bring Bare Bone to life. Another Dr. Frankenstein, he assembles the pieces of others, birthing one complete monster to send lurching towards the darkness. Stories from past issues have received Honorable Mentions in The Years' Best Fantasy and Horror #15 and another was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #13. Bare Bone is now a bi-annual anthology and although this is the 5th issue it's the first to be released on RDSP. #5 continues the spine-tingling tradition of the series featuring the fiction and poetry of today's most exciting authors. From the twisted poetry of Michael Arnzen to Tim Curran's gritty prose this volume is like the skeleton in your closet ready to pop out at any second.
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The Best of the Dream People Poets edited by Jennifer C. Barnes
The Best of The Dream People Poets is a collection of poems from 8 of the best experimental & surreal poets writing today. This 40-page illustrated chapbook includes poems from Hugh Tribbey, Andrew Penland, J. D. Nelson, Jim
Wittenburg, Richard Fein, Janis Butler Holm, Andy Miller and Dale Michael Houstman.
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A Dirge for the Temporal by Darren Speegle
Prepare for a decadant feast. A Dirge for the Temporal, Darren Speegle's second collection of fiction, bursts with sensations. Like Baroque architecture, plush velvet furnishings or the richest chocolate truffle dessert, Speegle's prose delights all the senses.
This collection heralds the return of the subtly crafted horror tale. A Dirge lingers on the dark mystery of the supernatural, creates the giddy feeling of fear mixed with excitement, that only comes from partial revelations, things half-glimpsed and misty.
Like H.P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allen Poe, Speegle's stories belong to the twilight hour, just after the glorious reds and golds of sunset have slipped away giving warning that total darkness is quickly approaching. Old world legend and gothic sensibilities lurk behind every corner. A world of aching beauty and impending doom awaits. Speegle's work is a rare treat to be savored.
"There is fantasy here, and horror to be sure, but there is also wonder, and a beauty of language that a lot of the fiction attributed to those genres lacks…there is a lot of bang-for-the-buck between the covers. A Dirge For the Temporal is a strong collection of surreal, literate fiction. Highly recommended." —David Niall Wilson, Cemetery Dance
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Everybody Scream! by Jeffrey Thomas
Jeffrey Thomas first seduced readers to the world of Punktown through a short story collection of the same name, bending time and technology to create a futuristic world which felt more real than our own. Everybody Scream! continues the seduction with characters every bit as vibrant only this time each person's story collides with the others in a dizzying thrill-ride of a novel. This roller coaster tale builds to a peak of expectation then plummets, twisting and turning, a breathtaking juggernaut to the final chapters with plenty of screams and giggles along the way.
"The results are alternately hilarious and terrifying…As in his earlier works, Thomas uses techniques and ideas pioneered by Lovecraft to make caustic social observations about humanity, in particular our exploitation of other species." —Publishers Weekly
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Eyes Everywhere by Matthew Warner
I See You . . .
They follow him home from work. They monitor his e-mails. They may even be reading his mind.
I Spy . . .
Charlie Fields, a young father in a dead-end secretarial job in Washington, DC, has uncovered a conspiracy of historic proportions. A family friend, Philip Duke, heads a secret organization bent on controlling the world-or so it seems. Is Charlie crazy, as his wife claims? Or is Duke's "Gestapo" now stalking them?
Do You See What I See? . . .
The neighbors beat on his walls at night, chanting his name. Spy cameras watch his every move. And now he's experiencing strange memory gaps.
Time runs out as Charlie learns the Gestapo is experimenting on his small children. Worse, his wife is helping them.
They're everywhere, watching him...studying him. It's time to take action, and if he has to abduct his own kids to save them, then so be it.
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The Fall of Never by Ronald Damien Malfi
Kelly Rich, long estranged from her family, is forced to return home when her sister is involved in a mysterious accident. After years of suppressing the events that drove her away she must struggle to unlock the mystery of her past in order to save her sister. But nothing is as it seems in the foreboding Spires, her ancestral home, where cold hearts rule the hearth and deadly secrets lurk in the forest. Plunged back into the dreamworld of her youth Kelly is faced with the reality of her own role in the tragedies afflicting her family.
"Sweet Mercy! Now that’s what I’m talking about! Malfi keeps you glued to the book. Be it from terror or your own morbid curiosity, you’ll find yourself unable to put it down. In other words, he’ll own you!…My rating? I give it a 5. Get This Book!" —Horror-Web
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Fugue XXIX by Forrest Aguirre
Fugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of speculative literary fiction where innovative minds keep busy dreaming up the future’s uncharted territories and mining forgotten treasures of the past. Whether exploring the stars or unearthing ancient cultures these stories will surprise and delight. In Aguirre’s world anything can happen, and does, with regularity.
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Hell on the Installment Plan edited by Jennifer C. Barnes
Hell on the Installment Plan offers three scathing tales of supernatural punishment. From greed to murder, lust to wrath, every sin stands in attendence for those who dare to open these pages. Abel Diaz, John Edward Lawson, Susanne S. Brydenbaugh, and Tim Curran purge their personal demons for your enjoyment in this first installment of the “Wrong Side of the Afterlife" series.
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Meat Puppet Cabaret by Steve Beard
Meat Puppet Cabaret is a dark fantasy novel that restores the perverse sex, bad drugs and violent rock 'n' roll to contemporary folklore. It starts from a weird idea: what if Jack the Ripper were a demon summoned by the black magician John Dee to steal Princess Diana's baby Allegra from the scene of the car crash in Paris? What if Allegra were hidden in a children's home in East London, but then 14 years later escaped?
The novel follows Allegra's adventures as she quests to discover her true identity in a nightmare alternate England. She encounters King Charles in orbital exile, Stalinist bioplasma engineer Natasha Supanova, the conspiratorial Osiris Club, drug alchemist Eddie Boy Krishna, ex-DJ and reality TV showman Mark 23 and gangland queens the Karma Twins along the way before finally confronting John Dee in his hideout beneath Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath.
This is a novel that takes the legacy of H. P. Lovecraft and updates it for a mediamatic technopagan world.
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Play Dead by Michael Arnzen
Johnny had been to the top. Young and slick, he knew how to play the high roller, dress the part, and make his opponents sweat. He'd ridden into Vegas on a winning streak a mile wide. But Vegas took everything, even his lucky gold tooth.
You'd think he couldn't fall any lower than a homeless shelter full of the downtrodden. And he couldn't possibly have anything left to lose. But you'd be wrong.
Johnny soon discovers there's a game going on at the shelter. A game where before you play the cards you have to make them. A game where the payout is survival and folding means death. A game where the question becomes: are you playing the cards or are they playing you?
Using 52 chapters Arnzen's novel-of-cards is stacked with mischief and thrills. Like the most accomplished blackjack dealer Arnzen will keep you guessing at his hand. Are you ready to play?
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Pseudo-City by D. Harlan Wilson
In Pseudofoliculitis City nothing is as it seems and everything is as it should be. Today's forecast calls for extreme confrontation, with sandwich flurries and the threat of handlebar mustaches to the west.
By turns absurd and surreal, dark and challenging, Pseudo-City exposes what waits in the bathroom stall, under the manhole cover and in the corporate boardroom, all in a way that can only be described as mind-bogglingly irreal.
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Psych Noir by John Edward Lawson and Dave Lipscomb
Psych Noir is a book of art-based fiction printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Pairing Dave Lipscomb's subversive, ultra-detailed illustrations and Lawson's explosive day-glo prose was bound to result in aberrations of a profane yet stimulating nature. The intoxicating visuals compliment the disturbing plot, making for a thrill ride that veers off into hitherto unexplored Burroughsesque wastelands.
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Sick: An Anthology of Illness edited by John Edward Lawson
Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it is a plague heralding the apocalypse for convention, writing a dirge for complacency. Sick is an anthology compiled by editor John Edward Lawson. Themes explored are physical, mental, and societal in nature. These Sick stories are horrendous, hilarious, and stupefying dissections of creative minds on the scalpel's edge.
"Sick is just that—sick; a madman's demented fever-dream. Sometimes funny. Sometimes horrifying. Always engaging. This is dark fiction on the edge." —Brian Keene, author of The Rising, Terminal and Fear of Gravity
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Spider Pie: Salacious Selections by Alyssa Sturgill
Recipe for Spider Pie: blend 2 cups of dark humor with a healthy dash of oddity, add a pinch of ground freak's ear and 2 tsp of secret desires. Bake until your neighbors start complaning about the smell.
In her debut book, Alyssa Sturgill firmly establishes herself as the enfant terrible of contemporary surrealism.
Laden with gothic horror sensibilities, Spider Pie is a one-way trip down a rabbit hole inhabited by sexual deviants and friendly monsters, fairytale beginnings and hideous endings.
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Terror-Dot-Gov by Harold Jaffe
As in Harold Jaffe’s two previous “docufiction” collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then “treats” his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. That ambiguity permits Jaffe to cunningly tease out the contradictions and subtexts of official “news” or “information” and torque it into what it so often is fundamentally: jingoism, xenophobia and propaganda.
Jaffe’s subject in Terror-Dot-Gov is not the everywhere-represented “illicit” terrorism so much as “licit,” institutionalized terrorism, and he assaults his subject from multiple angles: razor-sharp satire, precisely cadenced rhetoric, faux-reportage, and “unsituated” dialogues (Jaffe’s term, referring to his trademark talking heads with perfect pitch). The result is virtuosic and paradoxical: a prodigious display of firepower—in the cause of peace.
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The Troublesome Amputee by John Edward Lawson
Welcome to one of the meatiest collections of grizzly, grotey, bizarro poetry you’ll come across. In other words, “the good stuff.” The stuff you like to read. The guilty pleasure stuff that’s hard to come by. Not the stuff you used to read from your lovers or childhood heroes, or the stuff you were made to read by your teachers or parents. The stuff you genuinely like to spend time with, musing and mulling and mashing. The stuff that makes you guffaw with laughter and want to read out loud to other unsuspecting people.
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The Unauthorized Woman by Efrem Emerson
The Unauthorized Woman showcases the world of the inner freak, where no matter how “normal” or technologically advanced we become, we are consumed by our demons. Enter a landscape populated by the pre-dead and morticioners, by cockroaches and 300-lb robots. And, whatever you do, don’t eat the overcooked lamb...
Efrem Emerson's story "Granmother's Body" from The Unauthorized Woman received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2005.
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Unknown Pleasures by Jeffrey Thomas and Mark Howard Jones
What opportunities for pleasure lurk in the dark corners of the unknown? Let Mark Howard Jones and Jeffrey Thomas guide you into the forbidden chambers of the heart we are afraid to illuminate. Over forty pages in length, this collection of mind-bending erotica is vividly illustrated by M. Garrow Bourke and Dave Lipscomb.
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Westermead: A Collection of Tales by Scott Thomas
The rushes rasp in ghost-fed breezes as seed-hungry finches chance the thistle's fangs. The bracken has gone gold and brown, the brambles heavy with plump berries. The days, warm as brewed barley, are etched with frost beneath a rusty moon. Eerie effigies are set about to honor the dead, whom, as the year decays, are wont to roam the countryside.
The ways of old merge with the magical and fantastic in this wondrous world. Experience Westermead’s thaw and awakening season by season, the lush heat of summer's passion and the retreat into winter’s desolate embrace. Come celebrate and mourn with the people of Westermead as they make their way through a world steeped both in beauty and dread.
More than just a collection of tales, Westermead brings to life an enchanted country where the supernatural is as natural as the sunrise. Follow the intrepid documentarians, Purdy and Beech, on their hunt for the fearsome Frost Mare. Learn the secret of the stranger whose life little Melly saved in Four Bronze Sisters. Face The Mask of Black Tears alongside Mullein Wick while he fights for his sister's release from servitude.
This new mythology is ripe with unique characters, spiced with folkways and mixed throughout with a deep respect for all things natural. Given storytelling this vibrant, it is both easy and thrilling to get lost in Thomas’ unique landscape.
The story "Four Bronze Sisters" from Westermead received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2005.
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