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Last Days (Paperback)
Brian Evenson; Introduction by Peter Straub
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Evenson is a major figure among writers who straddle the line
between genre forms and literary concerns, and he was recently the
subject of a 5 x 5 interview (five interviewers, and spread over
five full-length conversations) with The Believer bringing his work
to an even wider audience Evenson's straight genre work is
published by Tor, and there's a large cross-over audience primed to
enjoy his more literary work. Evenson's work has been compared to
that of J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Franz Kafka,
Cormac McCarthy, Robert Coover, Edgar Allan Poe. Evenson has also
won the ALA RUSA Award for Best Horror Novel and was a finalist for
the Edgar Award. Last Days will be published alongside two other
re-releases (The Open Curtain and Father of Lies) as well as a new
collection, A Collapse of Horses all with a unified design and new
introductions This is Evenson's foray into hard-boiled detective
fiction, but it still circles around his concerns with the abuse of
power and the danger of organized religion
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Things Seen (Paperback)
Annie Ernaux; Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky; Foreword by Brian Evenson
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Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature “Annie Ernaux’s
work,†wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times,
“represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to
the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.†In
the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: “Keen
language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to
reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse.† In this
“journal†Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in
life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where
“things seen†reflect a private life meeting the larger world.
From the war crimes tribunal in Bosnia to social issues such as
poverty and AIDS; from the state of Iraq to the world’s
contrasting reactions to Princess Diana’s death and the starkly
brutal political murders that occurred at the same time; from a
tear-gas attack on the subway to minute interactions with a clerk
in a store: Ernaux’s thought-provoking observations map the
world’s fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner
life. Â
"Here is how monstrous humans are." A sentient, murderous
prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall;
brutal barrow men--of all the terrors that populate The Glassy,
Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who
decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story
collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the
Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and
self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn
between revenge and regeneration. Combining psychological and
ecological horror, each tale thrums with Evenson's award-winning
literary craftsmanship, dark humor, and thrilling suspense.
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Father of Lies (Paperback)
Brian Evenson; Introduction by Samuel R Delany
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"[Evenson's] scary fictional treatment of church hypocrisy has the
feeling of a reasoned attack on blind religious
obedience."-Publishers Weekly Provost Eldon Fochs may be a sexual
criminal. His therapist isn't sure, and his church is determined to
protect its reputation. Father of Lies is Brian Evenson's fable of
power, paranoia, and the dangers of blind obedience, and a
terrifying vision of how far institutions will go to protect
themselves against the innocents who may be their victims.
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Fugue State (Paperback)
Brian Evenson; Illustrated by Zak Sally
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"Brilliant...Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful
tone. The specific genius o"f Fugue Sta"te rests in subtlety, in
Evenson's ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through
utter linguistic control.""--Time Out New York""""19 satisfying and
surreal stories...packed with subtly hilarious
sentences."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer""Brian Evenson is one of the
treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the
generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar
Allan Poe."--Jonathan Lethem"The stories in this collection will
thrill, unsettle, and captivate. Like lanterns in dark rooms, paper
boats carried down on subterranean waters, they lead the reader
into mysterious and perilous territory. Read at your own
risk."--Kelly Link
Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson's
hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit,
sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of
the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we
become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret
fears to a woman trapped in a mime's imaginary box, and from a
post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of
the dead, the mind-bending world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe
exposes the horror contained within our daily lives.
Brian Evenson is the author of the Edgar and International
Horror Guild award-nominated novel "The Open Curtain." Visit his
website at www.brianevenson.com.
Fiction. This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English
village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in
the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail
around the room. "What about my rose beds?" demands Grandmother
Willoweed. Her son shouts down her ear-trumpet that the garden is
submerged, dead animals everywhere, she will be lucky to get a
bunch. Then the miller drowns himself...then the butcher slits his
throat...and a series of gruesome deaths plagues the villagers. The
newspaper asks, "Who will be smitten by this fatal madness next?"
Through it all, Comyns' unique voice weaves a text as wonderful as
it is horrible, as beautiful as it is cruel. Originally published
in England in 1954, this "overlooked small masterpiece" is a
twisted, tragicomic gem.
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Windeye (Paperback)
Brian Evenson
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Brian Evenson is a writer on the verge of breaking out of cult
fame. A writer whose work is singularly thrilling, he'll soon be
one of those writers who people will claim they knew about before
everyone else did. His fans range from the very literary (Jonathan
Lethem) to the heroes of horror (Peter Straub). Evenson's work has
been compared to that of J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul
Bowles, Franz Kafka, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Coover, Edgar Allan
Poe. A literary writer whose work crosses into science fiction and
horror, Evenson has also won the ALA RUSA Award for Best Horror
Novel and was a finalist for the Edgar Award. Some of his horror
genre books, like a movie tie-in to Aliens, has been published
under the pseudonym BK Evenson. The title story was one of twenty
stories that won the 2011 PEN/O. Henry Prize Award. Other winners
included Lily Tuck, Chris Adrian, and Jim Shepard.
In Criminal Enterprise, Thomas Chase wakes up from cryosleep to his first day at a new job - as a pilot for a contraband drug company dropping a shipment on Fantasia, a rock-planet terraformed to hide an elaborate drug manufacturing operation. Everything from synthetic heroin to MX7 is cooked here, in protected caves guard-dogged by the savage Aliens. When Chase's craft touches down on Fantasia, a chain of events begins that cannot be stopped. As criminals and competitors try to take over the drug-empire from the dangerous kingpin, Chase and his brother Pete are caught in the crossfire... with the Aliens adding blood to the mix.
No Exit tells the story of Detective Anders Kramm, awakening to a changed world after thirty years of cryogenic sleep. The alien threat has been subdued. Company interests dominate universal trade. Terraforming is big money now, with powerful men willing to do anything to assure dominance over other worlds. But Kramm has a secret. He knows why The Company killed twelve of its top scientists. He knows why the aliens have been let loose on the surface of a contested planet. He knows that the information he has is valuable, and that The Company will do everything it can to stop him from telling his secret to the world. Haunted by memories of the brutal murder of his family, Kramm is set adrift amid billion dollar stakes . . . with aliens around every corner, waiting for him to make a mistake!
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Things Seen (Hardcover)
Annie Ernaux; Translated by Jonathan Kaplansky; Foreword by Brian Evenson
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Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature “Annie Ernaux’s
work,†wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times,
“represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to
the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory.†In
the New York Times Book Review, Kathryn Harrison concurred: “Keen
language and unwavering focus allow her to penetrate deep, to
reveal pulses of love, desire, remorse.† In this
“journal†Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in
life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where
“things seen†reflect a private life meeting the larger world.
From the war crimes tribunal in Bosnia to social issues such as
poverty and AIDS; from the state of Iraq to the world’s
contrasting reactions to Princess Diana’s death and the starkly
brutal political murders that occurred at the same time; from a
tear-gas attack on the subway to minute interactions with a clerk
in a store: Ernaux’s thought-provoking observations map the
world’s fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner
life. Â
Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of
the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the
planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic
powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet
while trying to return to his fiancee on Earth. Through his
travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is
also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting
combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a
vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly
creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care
to believe. Originally published in French as two separate volumes,
translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of
the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to
English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and
masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
Each author has extensive fanbase Each author has been nominated
for and/or has won numerous awards. Most recently Jesse Ball was
long listed for the National Book Awards. A great Halloween or Day
of the Dead book
Evenson is a major figure among writers who straddle the line
between genre forms and literary concerns, and he was recently the
subject of a 5 x 5 interview (five interviewers, and spread over
five full-length conversations) with The Believer bringing his work
to an even wider audience Evenson's straight genre work is
published by Tor, and there's a large cross-over audience primed to
enjoy his more literary work. Evenson's work has been compared to
that of J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Franz Kafka,
Cormac McCarthy, Robert Coover, Edgar Allan Poe. Evenson has also
won the ALA RUSA Award for Best Horror Novel and was a finalist for
the Edgar Award. Collapse will be published alongside three
re-releases (The Open Curtain, Father of Lies, and Last Days, all
with a unified design and new introductions
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Brian Evenson
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The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most
important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth
century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett,
Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European
letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily
known for only one work, "The Visit," With these long-awaited
translations of his plays, fictions, and essays, Durrenmatt becomes
available again in all his brilliance to the English-speaking
world.
Durrenmatt's essays, gathered in this third volume of "Selected
"Writings, are among his most impressive achievements. Their range
alone is astonishing: he wrote with authority and charm about art,
literature, philosophy, politics, and the theater. The selections
here include Durrenmatt's best-known essays, such as "Theater
Problems" and "Monster Essay on Justice and Law," as well as the
notes he took on a 1970 journey in America (in which he finds the
United States "increasingly susceptible to every kind of fascism").
This third volume of "Selected Writings "also includes essays that
shade into fiction, such as "The Winter War in Tibet," a fantasy of
a third world war waged in a vast subterranean labyrinth--a Plato's
Cave allegory rewritten for our own troubled times.
Durrenmatt has long been considered a great writer--but one
unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these
elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes, a new
generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.
"There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of
fiction in America than Brian Evenson."-George Saunders "A
contemporary gothic tale about the apocalyptic connection between
religion and violence."-Publishers Weekly When Rudd, a troubled
teenager, embarks on a school research project, he runs across the
secret Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice, and its role in a 1902
murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Along with his
newly discovered half-brother, Rudd becomes swept up in the
psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique
ritual.
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The Warren (Paperback)
Brian Evenson
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