Living in Fiction, Class Warfare, and Such
Andrew
This morning I wrote in an email that I have no interest in memoir. Poe called it the imp of the perverse; Foucault’s inversion was the perverse implantation. Perhaps my…
2014
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, Reel Dark: Twisted Fantasies Projected on the Flickering Page
Attention all writers with a dark side! Here’s the official call for a book I’ll be editing with Pamela Turner:CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: BlackWyrm Publishing is opening several positions in its…
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Leaping at Thorns, 15 experimental horror tales
I should have a cover to show you soon, but here’s the blurb… LEAPING AT THORNS arranges 15 of L. Andrew Cooper’s unpublished, experimental short horror stories into a “triptych”…
Transport, by Peter Welmerink: Mutating Zombie Fiction
The deluge of zombie fiction in the 21st century–variously attributed to millennial paranoia, post-9/11 trauma, stoked fears about border control and contagion, the influence of films such as 28 Days…
Irredeemable, by Jason Sizemore: A Collection of Horrific Questions
Jason Sizemore’s Irredeemable is tricky because, particularly if you skip the title, you could pick it up and get swept up in each of the 18 tales’ ways of delivering…