Dog Horn Publishing Catalogue - Spring 2013

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Dog Horn Publishing Catalogue Spring 2013 Books with bite. Writing with risk.


Note from the Publisher Contents: Strange Fiction p 3 Alt Fiction p 13

Anthologies p 19

Poetry p 25

Magazine p28

2013 has already been a busy year for Dog Horn Publishing, with the fast pace already set in 2012. Last year we began the process of converting our backlist and frontlist into ebooks. We also continued to explore new ways of reaching audiences and promoting our books, including two dramatised readings/ performances from Dog Horn Publishing titles, and our first serialised novel at Dogcast Central (our podcast channel). As we move forward into 2013, we will continue to work with our partners in developing and widening our ebook programme, which should see most of our current titles available in EPUB and MOBI formats through top digital retailers. We will complement this in future with avenues such as audiobooks and live literature tours around the UK. We also hope to build on our North American and overseas distribution, to make it easier for stores and customers outside the UK to get our titles.

2012 was also a year for new magazines. We launched The Imperial Youth Review, a print journal with an online ‘rolling news’ website, featuring stories, poetry , art and non-fiction from emerging writers, alongside established writers of science fiction, fantasy and bizarro. We also launched the online-only LGBT culture magazine, Vada Magazine, which since December has attracted an unprecedented audience. The magazine now has about 25,000 readers per month (mostly young LGBT men and women in the UK and US). WHO WE ARE

Dog Horn Publishing is dedicated to publishing the best in cutting edge literature. We publish bold voices and writing that takes risks. We are less concerned by genre than we are by defying convention, taking readers someplace new, and challenging the limits of what writing is and does. From the outset we have been dedicated to nurturing writers not books, while remaining both independent and brave. Our books are striking, both visually and in terms of content, and we welcome the daring, the absurd, the mischievous and the dangerous.

Strange Fiction INCLUDING: Science fiction, fantasy and horror


WITCHCRAFT IN THE HAREM by Aliya Whiteley

SCHADENFREUDE by Chris Kelso

About the Author

About the Author

Born in Devon, Aliya has lived all over the UK and in Germany, and is currently in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog.

Chris Kelso has been published frequently in literary and university publications across the UK, USA and Canada. His novella A Message from the Slave State is available through Western Legends Publishing. Along with Garrett Cook he is the co-creator of The Imperial Youth Review.

She writes in many genres. Her two comic novels, Light Reading and Three Things About Me, were published by Macmillan; and her speculative fiction has appeared in various publications, such as Strange Horizons, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and the Elastic Press slipstream anthology, Subtle Edens (co-written with Neil Ayres).

Her short stories are violent, terrifying, tender, and funny. They have received much critical praise, from The Boston Globe to Tangent, and have garnered accolades such as The Drabblecast People’s Choice Award, runner-up in the Guardian’s Short Short Story competition, and runner-up in the McSweeney’s 13 Writing Prompts competition. In 2012 she was the runner up in the British Fantasy Society short story competition.

‘The experience of reading this collection is like being waterboarded by an angel. Shocking, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, this is some of the best writing I’ve ever seen. If you like Aimee Bender or Etgar Keret, you will love Witchcraft in the Harem.’ — Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winner

About the Book

Why buy? An acclaimed short story collection by a young British writer Adapts fantasy genre to express literary feminist themes A timely collection of the author’s best short fiction, widely anthologised over the last decade

Market/Categories: British Writers, Literary Fantasy, Feminist Fiction

You’re running away from something terrible. You think you’ve escaped it, this thing, but it turns out it’s waiting for you in all the places you hide: your house, your garden, a self-help group, a seraglio, the island of Zanzibar, a museum in Turin, a hot air balloon in Canada, even in the ladies’ room of your favourite nightclub. You’ve carried it into these places with you. It’s inside you. And now it’s time for it to come out. This first collection of acclaimed short stories by Aliya Whiteley takes the reader to the strangest, deepest corners of life experience. Grotesque, unsettling, and often very funny, Witchcraft in the Harem deals with birth and betrayal, love and loss, and all the terrible thoughts we want to escape, and find still waiting for us at the journey’s end. ISBN: 978-1-907133-40-4 (print) / 978-1-907133-77-0 (ebook) £8.99 / $17.95 (print), £2.99 / %5.99 (ebook) Fiction, short stories, 136pp. 30th April 2013

Why buy?

An acclaimed short story collection by a young British writer First collection from a ‘rising star’ of the science fiction/fantasy and bizarro genres A timely collection of the author’s best short fiction, widely anthologised over the last few years

“People make the comparison to Burroughs, Bukowski, Dick and Trocci with Chris’s work and they’re fair. But there are so many other influences here, in deft interplay. Some writers wear their influences on their sleeves—and some, such as Chris Kelso, juggle with those influences, and weave them into a tapestry with a larger purpose than mere homage.” —Edward Morris, 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee

About the Book

‘This collection is just the right amount of raunchy, and is guaranteed to uplift the heart of today’s most discerningly jaded nihilist’ —Tom Bradley

‘Sparky, modern, avant-garde but accessible, Chris Kelso’s book is reminiscent of the most successful literary experimentation of the 60s and 70s, the sort of work that was published in the later New Worlds, but it’s also thoroughly contemporary, intimately engaged with modern life as it is right now. Kelso steams with talent and dark wit and his blend of anarchy with precision is refreshing, inspiring and utterly entertaining . . . ‘ —Rhys Hughes ‘Chris Kelso is a writer of almost intimidating intelligence, wit, and imagination. On every page there is evidence of a great mind at work.’ —Andrew Raymond Drennan ‘Chris Kelso is the one your mother warned you about. He is a sick, sick man—bereft of cure and heaped with symptom. His words will taint you irrevocably. Your eyes will want to gargle after reading just one of his stories. His book is unique—but that’s a good thing.’ —Steve Vernon Market/Categories: British Writers, Bizarro, Science Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-907133-39-8 (print) / 978-1-907133-78-7 (ebook) £8.99 / $17.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) Fiction, short stories, 136pp. 30th April 2013


THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE by Rachel Kendall

About the Author

Rachel Kendall is a thirty-five year old writer and editor (ISMs Press and Sein und Werden) living in Salford with her daughter of much-messiness.

The house is full of junk, dead things (some stuffed, others skeletal), books, a toy tea-set, an Iggle Piggle, a few cameras, many films, stacking cups, a couple of stairgates and a clanger. She collects animal-feet brooches and loves the printed word. ‘I think Rachel Kendall is a major voice. She is a highly talented author who should be read.’ — Richard Godwin

‘As André Breton once said, “Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” In The Bride Stripped Bare, it always is.’ —Marc Lowe, in Neon

Why buy?

An acclaimed short story collection by a young writer Reimagines the fairytale genre to bring it into contemporary dark fantasy literature Plays with gender, sexuality and motherhood Market/Categories: Women Writers, Fantasy, Gothic Fairytales

FISHER OF DEVILS by Steve Redwood

Fisher of Devils was nominated for the British Fantasy Society 2003 Best Novel Award. Broken Symmetries was nominated for the BFS 2009 Best Collection Award.

About the Book

‘This story makes the dangerous crossing from symbols of ink to the reader’s heart in a way indicative of a classic. Unlike so many English fantasies, it is not ashamed to be funny and wild and rumbustious and devilish and romantic…It has a simple grandeur, a complexity which is scarce aware of itself, a ripeness…It grapples with Milton and turns him upside-down, but doesn’t steal anything that falls out of his pockets. The difference between this and so many other modern fantasies which imitate and feed off each other is the difference between imagining a man kissing a woman and kissing her yourself…This book, I predict, is destined to become a modern cosmic comedy fantasy classic.’ —Rhys Hughes ISBN: 978-1-907133-42-8 (print) / 978-1-907133-76-3 (ebook) £10.99 / $20.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook). Fiction, 296pp. 30th May 2013

About the Author

Steve Redwood was born on a rainy day in 1943. It was still raining twenty-five years later, so he left the country in a huff, a raincoat, and a plane. Most of his life has been a textbook study of uselessness, large chunks of it misspent. He has avoided serious work by teaching, and marriage by running away. He is at present hiding out in Madrid.

BROKEN SYMMETRIES

About the Book

ISBN: 978-1-907133-04-6 (print) / 978-1-907133-45-9 (ebook) 128pp, £9.99 / $18.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) Fiction, short stories 30th October 2012

Why buy?

• An acclaimed novel brought back into print after 10 years • A satire on organised religion in the vein of Monty Python’s The Life of Brian • From a highly popular indie author, whose books sell well on the continent

by Steve Redwood

Finally bound into one collection, twenty three stories of creation and mutation. From twisted fairy tales and grubby nights to circus freaks and insect bites, these tales of depravity reveal the bride in her most scabrous form. ‘Like the films of Gaspar Noé, the images from these stories, once implanted in the mind, are quite impossible to reverse or erase. The versatile Kendall is here able, via carefully crafted language and dialogue, to make us feel at turns trapped, lonely, scared, angry, horny, disgusted. This is her gift, and it puts her in a class with writers such as Georges Bataille, William S. Burroughs, and Anaïs Nin, who were brave enough to go places that others were afraid to tread in their day. The 23 disturbing, yet often deceptively tender tales in this short but powerful collection speak to our most deeply felt desires and fears, and are well worth reading.’ — MARC LOWE, in Neon

Market/Categories: Fantasy, Humour Religion/Spirituality

ISBN: 978-1-907133-17-6 (print) / 978-1-907133-47-3 (ebook) £12.99 / $24.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook). Fiction, short stories. 30th July 2012

Steve Redwood’s own selection of his short fiction. This collection has now been expanded, with new fiction and an introduction by Ian Watson. 27 unique stories that stretch the meaning of eclectic, bound together in one forbidden tome.

Why buy? • Revised and expanded edition of an acclaimed short story collection • Nominated for a British Fantasy Award • 27 stories that span genres and themes

Find here: broken women living on shelves in a library, a paedophile finding redemption through a French girl who is only half human, a dying dog on a Turkish road ripping apart a relationship, an old woman mutilating her partner in search of what might have been, a Greek goddess and the monster she created meeting in a final showdown, an alien trapped in Patagonia nurturing itself on sickness and religious gullibility to survive, a doctor committed to sacrificing the woman he loves, a man going into the past in order to kill himself, a Spanish beggar challenging a deranged ex-mercenary, an exiled Martian fixated on Dana Scully, an immortal Highlander refusing to play by the rules, Swiftian euthanasia in a Spanish bullring, people variously turned into chickens, last wills and testaments, and even black holes. All this, with a few devils, saints, cloned messiahs, witches, and well-educated zombies thrown in for good measure.

Market/Categories: Humour, Science Fiction, Short Stories


THREE SCREENPLAYS by Tom Bradley

Tom Bradley has been nominated for several Lambda Literary Awards, including for his collection Hemorrhaging Slave of an Obese Eunuch and his novel Lemur. Bomb Baby (adapted here for the screen) was an Amazon bestseller.

About the Author

Tom Bradley is an American novelist, essayist and writer of short stories. He is the author of The Sam Edwine Pentateuch, a five-book series, various volumes of which have been nominated for the Editor’s Book Award, the New York University Bobst Prize, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel. His essays and short stories are anthologized extensively in America and in Europe. Why buy?

Adapted from his acclaimed novels Market/Categories: Fantasy, Screenplays, Adaptations

ISBN: 978-1-907133-71-8 £12.99 / $24.95 (print) £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) Fiction, short stories, 392pp. 30th July 2012

Here are three screenplays collected in print for the first time, from the prolific bizarro genius Tom Bradley. Each screenplay is adapted from a novel of the same name. • LEMUR — damnation and salvation in the food services industry. • VITAL FLUID — rival hypnotists stage a bizarre series of showdowns. • BOMB BABY — a manhunt through Hiroshima’s lightless crannies. ‘ . . . brilliant, evocative writing. Bizarre imagination set free. An enviable skill.’ —Consuelo Boland

HEMORRHAGING SLAVE OF AN OBESE EUNUCH

by Tom Bradley

In the middle of the Adriatic Sea during Neronic times, in Hiroshima Cathedral’s demon-infested basement, in the royal elephant stables of a Hindustani town three millennia ago, in a Tokyo AIDS hospice disguised as a derelict kindergarten, on a yacht anchored off a South China leper isolation colony, and on top of a skull-shaped and -textured geothermal formation in the prune-colored midnight. Celebrated author Tom Bradley’s latest short story collection will take you to all these places . . . and beyond. ‘You don’t just read Tom Bradley’s stories, you topple into them: a magical freefall into the hectic asylum of a paradigm gestating genius’ —The Drill Press Why buy?

Market/Categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy, An acclaimed short story collection by an award-winning writer Spans eras and genres Dark Humour Nominated in the Transgender Category at the Lambda Literary Awards 2010 ISBN: 978-1-907133-03-9 (print) / 978-1-907133-60-2 (ebook) 140pp, £9.99 / $19.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) Fiction, short stories 30th June 2012

KEROTAKIS by Janice Lee

‘If Frankenstein’s monster was not taken for granted, or was taken as the a priori product of our current mind, it would be named G.I.L.L., and made by Janice Lee.’ -Vanessa Place, Author of Dies: A Sentence and La Medusa

About the Author Janice Lee is a writer, artist, editor, designer, and curator. She is interested in the relationships between metaphors of consciousness and theoretical neuroscience, and experimental narrative. Her work can be found in Big Toe Review, Zafusy, antennae, sidebrow, Action, Yes, Joyland, Luvina, Everyday Genius, elimae, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of Daughter (Jaded Ibis, May 2011), and a chapbook Red Trees. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Editor of the online journal [out of nothing]. Why buy? An exceptional debut that blurs both prose and poetry A postmodern exploration of consciousness Popular with experimental literature courses

Market/Categories: Women Writers, Science Fiction, Experimental

About the Book KEROTAKIS is Janice Lee’s postmodern exploration of consciousness, form and narrative, as it follows the journey of G.I.L.L. A contemporary reimagining of Frankenstein that takes us forwards, backwards and sideways through time and space, this is a cutting-edge novel for the multimedia age. ‘Kerotakis, by Janice Lee, is a strange and uncanny fissioning operant on exponential levels. It animates through alchemical repartee, elements, which flare across the text, tuning themselves, line by line, phrase by phrase, into an energy of flammable gold.’ —Will Alexander

‘Beyond the graphic, philosophical, narrative and poetic splendors of Janice Lee’s dazzling generic experiment Kerotakis is a more cruel beauty and a more devastating realization—that the multifarious speculation of consciousness in manipulative exile and in heartbreaking dialogue with its origin and its future is, and always has been, consciousness itself.’ —Jon Wagner, CalArts ISBN: 978-1-907133-05-3 print) / 978-1-907133-68-8 (ebook) 170pp, £9.99 / $20.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook/PDF) Fiction, poetry 30th June 2012


MECHAGNOSIS by Douglas Thompson

About the Author Douglas Thompson’s short stories have appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, most recently Albedo One, Ambit, Postscripts, and New Writing Scotland. He won the Grolsch/Herald Question of Style Award in 1989 and second prize in the Neil Gunn Writing Competition in 2007. His first book, Ultrameta, was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2009, nominated for the Edge Hill Prize, and shortlisted for the BFS Best Newcomer Award. His critically acclaimed second novel, Sylvow, was published in autumn 2010, also from Eibonvale. A third novel “Apoidea”, has recently been published by The Exaggerated Press. He is a director of the Scottish Writer’s Centre and Marketing Manager for Eibonvale Press UK. douglasthompson.wordpress.com

MISTER GUM by Rhys Hughes

‘A desperately needed antidote to nerd-friendly space fiction and inklingoid fantasy.’ —The Guardian

About the Author

Rhys Hughes is a Welsh writer and essayist. Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavic, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanislaw Lem, Flann O’Brien, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance.

Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, although he is by no means limited to any of these forms and has proven to be extremely versatile. He has been published in Postscripts among many other places. Why buy?

Why buy? Experimental fiction from upand-coming new voice (a “name to watch” –Interzone Magazine) Trans-genre writing that defies categorisation Unusual fusion of mystery, action, poetic insight and psychological insight. Market/Categories: Science Fiction, Horror, Literary/Experimental

About the Book Scott Malthrop is a murderer with a difference: his entire house is filled with an enormous device gradually assembled by him and his father over four decades. Known only as “The Machine” the device seems to transport Malthrop to different locations in space and time by feeding off his memories and a vast array of sentimental objects and trophies taken by Malthrop from his own past and that of his victims. As Malthrop’s experiments become ever more violent and lifethreatening, they cause distortions in the surrounding quantum fabric, and spark off pursuit from two very different directions: a local Police Inspector and two “Angels” sent back from the end of time. This peculiar triangle gradually closes in unexpected ways, as each of the participants find their roles transformed by their imminent encounter with Malthrop and his mysterious Machine. ISBN: 978-1-907133-29-9 (print) / 978-1-907133-61-9 (ebook) 180pp, £12.99 / $23.95 229mm x 152mm, paperback Fiction, anthologies 30th October 2012

Revised and expanded edition of an acclaimed novel A novel written in short stories Author’s own preferred text

Market/Categories: Humour, Fantasy, Surrealism

About the Book

Rhys Hughes’ funniest novel, revised and expanded in a luxurious new edition with new material, comprises the tall tales of one Mister Gum: adventurer, pervert, and the world’s most infamous creative writing tutor. Through Mister Gum we encounter a brief and sordid history of Britain and British literature, come to challenge the presumptions of creative writing pedagogy and re-examine the limits of narrative (and good taste). This is a world of Lynne Trusse, an Empire’s ludicrous obsession with the Rabelaisian and modern man’s vain quest to reassert his dominance in all things. Joel Lane provides a brief but thoughtful introduction on this new edition, while Rhys Hughes offers an all-new afterword where he discusses the literary impact of the first edition of this most British of satirical novels. ‘Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ —Jeff VanderMeer ‘Quirky and fantastic and sometimes quite twisted, Rhys Hughes is a treat.’ —Ellen Datlow ISBN: 978-1-907133-18-3 (print) / 978-1-907133-21-3 (ebook) 174pp, £9.99 / $20.95 Fiction, short stories 30th March 2011


NITROSPECTIVE by Andrew Hook

“His stories range from the darkly apocalyptic to the hopefully visionary” —The Harrow

About the Author Andrew Hook was born in 1967 in Norwich. He began writing in 1987, with the assistance of the Government’s Enterprise Allowance Scheme. Most of his published work to date has been short stories. To date he has had over 80 short stories published, in a variety of genres, although slipstream is his default style and one which he and his Elastic Press helped establish. In November 2002, frustrated by the lack of short story collection publishers in the UK, he formed the independent publisher, Elastic Press, specialising in short fiction. In 2005 and 2009 Elastic Press won the British Fantasy Society’s Best Small Press award. He also won another six separate awards, including the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Whilst he recently closed the press, the legacy of what he achieved will always be remembered. Why buy?

About the Book

Market/Categories: British Writers, Science Fiction, Short Stories

Japanese school children grow giant frogs, a superhero grapples with her secret identity, onions foretell global disasters and an undercover agent is ambivalent as to which side he works for and why. Relationships form and crumble with the slightest of nudges. World catastrophe is imminent; alien invasion blase. These twenty slipstream stories from acclaimed author and publisher Andrew Hook examine identity and our fragile existence, skid skewed realities and scratch the surface of our world, revealing another—not altogether dissimilar—layer beneath.

New collection by award-winning author Blurs boundaries between literary & genre fiction Offers highly original perspective on modern life

“Andrew Hook is a wonderfully original writer” —Graham Joyce

“Refreshingly original, uncompromisingly provocative, and daringly intelligent” —The Future Fire ISBN: 978-1-907133-25-1 (print) / 978-1-907133-63-3 (ebook) 280pp, £12.99 / $23.95 229mm x 152mm, paperback Fiction/Short Stories 30th April 2011

RARITY FROM THE HOLLOW by Robert Eggleton

‘quirky, profane, disturbing.’ —Missouri Review

About the Author Robert Eggleton is a first-time author. He is best known for his investigative reports about children’s programmes. Today, he is a therapist at the Prestera Mental Health Center in Charleston, West Virginia. Rarity from the Hollow is his debut novel.

Author proceeds are donated to a child abuse prevention programme operated by the Children’s Home Society of West Virginia. Why buy? A comic fantasy in the style of The Wizard of Oz for adults All author royalties donated to child protection charities A revised edition to the Noble (not Nobel) Prize winning novel Market/Categories: Satire, Fantasy, Science Fiction

About the Book ‘Lacy Dawn’s father relives the Gulf War, her mother has lost her teeth, and her best friend is killed by her own father. Life in The Hollow in West Virginia isn’t great. But Lacy Dawn has one advantage—she’s been befrended by a semi-organic semi-robot (DotCom, alias Buddy) who works with her to ‘cure’ her parents. Buddy wants something in exchange, though. It’s up to Lacy Dawn to save the universe.’ —Books for a Buck ‘Imagine Wizard of Oz and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy smashed together and taking place in a hollow in the hills of West Virginia.’ — Adicus Ryan Garton, Editor, AtomJack

‘Look in on a dysfunctional family, poverty, child abuse, and the thought processes of a young girl turning the corner from childhood to adolescence, then put them all together in a surreal setting that looks at our society from a distinctly different viewpoint. You’ll enjoy the ride with Lacy Dawn and friends and family, but don’t expect the ride to be without bumps and enough food for thought to last you a long time.’ —Darrell Bain, Bobbing Around ISBN: 978-1-907133-06-0 (print) / 978-1-907133-24-4 (ebook) 256pp, £12.99 / $23.95 229mm x 152mm, paperback Fiction 30th June 2012


CRASHIN’ THE REAL About the Author

by Deb Hoag

About the Book

When gonzo columnist Eve Petra is fired by her magazine’s new owner, she spends a week or so wallowing in self-pity and Jack Daniels. To her great dismay, no one wants to hire a middle-aged female version of Hunter Thompson. Lying on her bed wondering what the hell has happened to her life, it comes to her. Who has weathered every whim of the fickle public for nearly five decades? Who has shown the ability to rise from the ashes of every disaster? Who is looking down at her from a poster taped to her bedroom ceiling? Rock God Steven Tyler.

Alt Fiction INCLUDING: Rock ‘n’ roll, war vets and flying monkeys

Armed with a Glock and a bottle of Jack, accompanied by her adventurous Grandma Rose, Eve starts on a cross-country trip to find her hero, and to ask him to explain the meaning of life to her. Along the way, she escapes murderous circus performers, becomes a Girl Scout cookie and meets a Wild Man in a sharkskin suit—just a few of the adventures that open Eve’s eyes and change her perspective on life. Now she just needs to find Steven Tyler and get him to tell her what the hell she should do next . . . and keep Grandma Rose from seducing him.

Market/Categories: Women Writers, Road Novel, Gonzo Journalism

ISBN: 978-1-907133-00-8 (print) / 978-1-907133-74-9 (ebook) £9.99 / $20.95 (print), £2.99 ($5.99) (ebook). 229mm x 156mm, 170pp. Fiction. 30th March 2009

Why buy?

• Appeals to fans of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler (recent American Idol judge). • Draws on the author’s own lived experience writing for the alt press. • It is a road novel with a twist.

Deb Hoag has been writing professionally for over 20 years, starting at a weekly alternative newspaper in Detroit, The Metro Times. Her work there included editing, writing a column and organizing such events as the Detroit Music Awards and the newspaper’s yearly photography contest and Best Of issues. In the early 90s, Deb went back to school and was awarded a PhD in clinical psychology.

Market/Categories: Fantasy, Satire, Gay & Lesbian

QUEER & LOATHING ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD

by Deb Hoag

Why buy? Dorothy isn’t the happiest of girls. Kansas is pretty damn boring, her aunt and uncle are hicks, and it seems she doesn’t much belong. But when her • Adult take on a popular shed gets picked up by a cyclone and dropped in Oz, things begin to get children’s series interesting. There’s this broad called Glinda who’s taken more than a • Takes advantage of the bit of a liking to her, and perverted munchkins who run a tabloid full of popularity of Wicked and the 2013 release of Oz: green celebrity snatch. There’s also Ozma, who runs Oz’s only transgender The Great and Powerful helpline—and who is toe-curlingly hot by the way. • Introduces queer themes to the Land of Oz Between silver shoes and matching purses, politics and dildos, lesbian witches and wizards with gambling debts, Dorothy must find her way home (wherever that might be)—and figure out who really makes her heels click. ISBN: 978-1-907133-22-0 (print) / 978-1-907133-48-0 (ebook). £12.99 / $23.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 229mm x 152 mm. Fiction, paperback. 30th June 2012


A HISTORY OF SARCASM by Frank Burton

“If you like William Shakespeare, you’ll love this guy.” —BBC Three Counties Radio

About the Author

Frank Burton was born in Lancashire in 1979, and started writing from an early age. His fiction has been published widely in the UK, Australia and USA. He was the winner of the 2003 Philip LeBrun Prize for Creative Writing. In 2008, he completed his MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, which he passed with a Distinction.

Why buy? Reissued first collection by a popular UK writer Written by the the winner of the 2003 Philip LeBrun Prize for Creative Writing Features a range of literary and genre work “The writer William Burroughs once called language ‘a virus from outer space’, and there’s a sense of that . . . where Burton holds words up to the sun and lets the light shine through them.” —David Swann, author of The Last Days of Johnny North

Market/Categories: British Writers, Science Fiction, Short Stories

About the Book “Sometimes stories that I’ve used to mythologize my childhood resurface in my mind as actual memories … Perhaps if you tell a story enough times, it will become the truth.” This admission by Mark Greensleeves, the compulsive liar in the story, Some Facts About Me, sums up Frank Burton’s sharp, surreal and subversive short story collection, A History of Sarcasm. The seventeen stories in this collection blur the boundaries between fact and fantasy through a series of obsessive characters and their skewed versions of reality.

Among them are a man who insists on living every aspect of his life in alphabetical order, a girl who believes she is receiving secret messages through the TV, a paranoiac who is pursued by an army of giant lobsters, and an academic who turns into a cat.

IN THE MIRROR, A MONSTER by Marten Weber

About the Author

Marten Weber is of mixed parentage (a man and a woman) and has lived in more countries than he can count on hands and feet together. He speaks several languages and believes in multiculturalism, tolerance, and free champagne in economy class. He dislikes bigots and fanatics of all denominations. He is hugely uncomfortable with labels, even seemingly benign ones such as ‘gay,’ ‘straight,’ or ‘sugar-free,’ and prefers instead to judge people by their sense of humor and shoe size. He believes that everybody should be gay for a year.

Marten Weber is the author of the acclaimed novel Shayno, and the award-winning ‘biography’ of Casanova’s gay brother Benedetto. Marten Weber has famously been called ‘the most versatile voice in modern gay fiction, at once shockingly realistic and wonderfully entertaining’.

Why buy? • Written in a literary Scottish dialect • Written with a persuasive knowledge of place • Written by a bestselling author and Huffington Post blogger

Tim and Tim have been running a gay B&B in Edinburgh for three decades. Their relationship is characterised by kind love and deep trust—they tell each other everything. A handful of long-term lodgers give their old house a lively character: Jamie, the charming American who won’t settle down; Javier, a Spanish cook who prefers pornography to real people; Aleysha, a Ugandan refugee and her newborn baby. Into this life come two attractive young men from Slovakia. Everybody agrees that they must be a couple—why else would they be staying here? They hug and cuddle, and even kiss without shame.

But there is something strange about them. Before long, Tim and the nosey lodgers are uncovering a secret nobody could have expected. A secret which begins to affect every lodger, and even Tim and Tim, who must come to realise the deception at the very heart of their love. In the end not a single stone of the old B&B is left in its original place.

Funny, dark and relentlessly off the wall, this collection brings together the best of Frank Burton’s published work with some brand new stories. ISBN: 978-1-907133-01-5 (print) / 978-1-907133-46-6 (ebook) 158pp, £9.99 / $20.95 Fiction, short stories 30th May 2012

About the Book

Market/Categories: Fiction, Novels, Gay & Lesbian

Marten Weber’s most compelling work to date, In the Mirror, a Monster is a masterpiece of modern storytelling. His style is vivid, with a keen ear for regional voices, and at times has the magical ability to render, with clear compassion, the human frailty behind individual actions and words. ISBN: 978-1-907133-50-3 (print) / 978-1-907133-41-1 (ebook) £12.99 / $23.95 (print), £2.99/$5.99 (ebook) Fiction, short stories, 306pp. 30th May 2012.


SHARK

by Wes Brown

“Here we have that rare artefact. A contemporary, regional, working class novel written with the ideas-based, languagegrounded currency of the great transatlantic stylists: Updike, Bellow, De Lillo and Martin Amis. Wes Brown’s art is to match high literary intensity to the milieu of the northern pubs and Pool Halls, finding the story in a young man’s struggle to accommodate himself to the life he has been dealt, after service in Iraq, in a community divided and adrift.” —Danny Broderick, The Workroom.

About the Author Wes Brown was born in Leeds in 1985. He is a novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Wes is the founding Editor of The Cadaverine and writes regularly for a number of journals. He is currently NAWE’s Information Manager and an associate of the Institute of the Future of the Book.

by Dave Migman

‘As you might expect the portrait of a life that Migman paints is relentlessly dark and unsettling. And yet it is leavened also by a kind of brutal poetry. The prose may be grim, but it is beautifully, glisteningly grim. Migman alternates between complex, keen and lucid descriptions and complete up-front baseness.’ —Neon Magazine

About the Author

‘Here’s an author, like Dante, equally at home in Heaven and Hell. It’s incredible to relate, but Dave Migman evokes the Scottish countryside’s loveliness with power sufficient to counterbalance the harrowing urban hideosities and the gargoyles who leave slime trails on the cobblestones.’ —nth position Dave Migman is a writer, artist and stone carver. His work has appeared at GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Polluto, Neon, Murky Depths and Pulp Metal Magazine. Why buy?

Why buy? Based on a critically-acclaimed novella of the same name, as featured in The Guardian Adopts a type of Leeds dialect for authenticity Critically acclaimed debut by an author under 30

THE WOLF STEPPED OUT

About the Book Ex-soldier and violent deadbeat John Usher returns to his boyhood home of Leeds to find things have changed. His community has been unravelled by gang culture, ethnic tensions and hopelessness. Unable to sleep, his only consolation is drinking late into the night and playing pool by himself. That is, until an encounter with a hard right activist leads him into a twisted relationship of deceit, cuckoldry and hatred.

“Wes Brown writes with a kind of rhythmic Northern realism, catching the way we think, the way we talk, the way we act round here; he Market/Categories: manages to make the North a marvellous place, a place where art can British Writers, Social Realism, happen, where epic can feel comfortable...” —Ian McMillan, poet and Iraq War broadcaster. “Brown is a new generation Updike with the ability to capture the essence of a time and place comparable to Cartwright’s Heartland. Never has hard-fought alienation been rendered so tensely familiar and jaw-achingly hard to swallow.” —Jo Brandon, editor of The Cadaverine ISBN: 978-1-907133-31-2 (print) / 978-1-907133-19-0 (ebook) £12.99 / $23.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 229mm x 152 mm Fiction, paperback 30th June 2012

Debut novel from a bright new talent Carries Biblical and religious themes A dark, urban novel that deals with the worst pressures of grimy city life Market/Categories: British Writers, Urban Realism, Urban Fantasy

About the Book Today the cracks made themselves known . . . He was lurking around the Zone, lured by the patterns locked into the pavement. The city was undergoing massive metamorphism. Her streets buckled and splintered. A web was formed, like protein seeking fronds of fungi seep within the soil so the cracks roved across the slabs and walls. They formed a cryptic alphabet; the cuneiform scrawl of his goddess unfolded before his eyes. Jason hates the city. It is diseased and festering around him.

He hates the capitalist beast that romps in its streets and scoffs at him. But the city is poised to change. It might find salvation yet.

Only Jason can see the Goddess of Cracks awakening, and he knows he must do her bidding. ISBN: 978-1-907133-12-1 (print) / 978-1-907133-67-1 (ebook) £9.99 / $18.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 229mm x 152mm, 144pp Fiction, paperback 30th April 2012


BITE ME, ROBOT BOY Edited by Adam Lowe

From Oz Hardwick’s hard-hitting experimental poetry, to Robert Lamb’s colourful pulpy science fiction, this is an anthology of incandescent writing from some of the world’s best emerging talent.

About the Editor

Anthologies INCLUDING: Fiction, poetry and non-fiction

Adam Lowe is an author and publisher from Leeds, UK. He has worked as a poet, playwright and performer to much critical acclaim, and has been nominated for three Lambda Literary Awards and the Eric Hoffer Award in Best New Writing 2012. Works he published have been nominated for three British Fantasy Awards, while his magazine, Polluto, won a Spectrum Fantastic Arts Award with its first issue. Why buy? Award-winning writers from the Dog Horn Prize for Literature 2010 Features both poetry and prose Raises the profile of new international talent

Market/Categories: Anthologies, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Transgressive

About the Book Bite Me, Robot Boy is a seminal new anthology of poetry and fiction spanning genres, styles and cultures. This is a compilation of what Dog Horn Publishing does best: writing that takes risks, crosses boundaries and challenges expectations. Developed as a product of the Dog Horn Prize for Literature, the writers herein were all nominees for or winners of the awards in poetry or prose, and developed the work contained with a dedicated team of budding arts activists from Yorkshire. The product is an anthology that feels muscular and moving, breathtaking and bold. As a continuation of the professional writer develpment work undertaken by Dog Horn Publishing, the writers involved in the anthology have been invited to work on a series of novels and collections with the publisher, a number of which will be released over the next two years. Featuring: S.R. Dantzler, Oz Hardwick, Maximilian T. Hawker, Emma Hopkins, A.J. Kirby, Stephanie Elizabeth Knipe, Robert Lamb, Poppy Farr, Wendy Jane Muzlanova, Cris O’Connor, Mark Wagstaff, Fiona Ritchie Walker and KC Wilder.

ISBN: 978-1-907133-27-5 (print) / 978-1-907133-58-9 (ebook) £14.99 / $27.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 229mm x 152 mm, 280pp Fiction 30th June 2012


CABALA

NEW CROSS-FUCKED MUSINGS ON A MANIC REALITY

Edited by Adam Lowe

Edited by Tom Bradley

“Digital connectivity has rendered physical locality irrelevant and made polyversality the new thing . . . Once space has been erased by the miracle of email, so has time, in terms of its effects on the human frame ... I’ll invent a name that’s doubly apt, as these writers produce electricity as well as useful heat.” —from editor’s introduction

‘The Milky Bar Kid is dead. He bit the Californ-I-A dust. Popped yon popsicle clogs. Met his candybar maker.’ —A. J. Kirby

About the Contributors

Adam Lowe is Editor-in-Chief of Dog Horn Publishing and Polluto, and author of Troglodyte Rose and Precocious.

About the Editor

Rachel Kendall is publisher of ISMs Press and Sein und Werden, and her critically-acclaimed first short story collection, The Bride Stripped Bare, was published in 2009 by Dog Horn Publishing.

Tom Bradley is an American novelist, essayist and writer of short stories. He is the author of The Sam Edwine Pentateuch, a five-book series, various volumes of which have been nominated for the Editor’s Book Award, the New York University Bobst Prize, and the AWP Award Series in the Novel. His essays and short stories are anthologized extensively in America and in Europe. He resides in Japan.

Richard Evans is the author of Machine Nation and Robosapien.

A.J. Kirby is the author of Bully and runner up of the Dog Horn Prize for Literature (Fiction) 2010. Jodie Dabie is a writer and blogger from the North of England.

Jacqueline Houghton is currently working on her first science fiction novel.

Market/Categories: British Writers, Fantasy, Short Stories

Why buy? Showcase of five writers from Manchester and Yorkshire Features a range of styles and genres Critically-acclaimed short stories

About the Book

Dog Horn Publishing brings together the best weird fiction from new writers north of Watford.

From gothic fairytale to humorous pop-culture satire, five of the North’s top writers showcase the diversity of British talent that exists outside the country’s capital and put their strange, funny, mythical landscapes firmly on the literary map. Over the course of ten weeks, Adam Lowe worked with five budding writers as part of the Dog Horn Masterclass series. This anthology collects together the best work produced both as a result of the masterclasses and beyond. ISBN: 978-1-907133-16-9 (print) / 978-1-447657-45-3 (ebook) 144pp, £9.99 / $21.95 Fiction, short stories 30th April 2011

Why buy? A vibrant showcase of nonfiction from internationallyacclaimed, cutting edge writers Edited by Amazon-bestseller Tom Bradley Features memoir, essay and satire Market/Categories: Non-fiction, Memoir, Essay & Criticism

About the Book In this vast anthology, among other delights, you will meet a pornographic ventriloquist and a man who has spent a lifetime getting laid only because he looks like certain famous people. You’ll be taken deep into the heads of such gentry as Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper (who, we learn, was actually Bram Stoker), and Kerry Thornley, author of a book about Lee Harvey Oswald published before the Kennedy assassination. Andrew Gallix will give you a crash course in transgression, and underground press legend Hugh Fox will bring you to understand what it means to be the small Jewish boy who would one day become Charles Bukowski’s first biographer. Meanwhile, mighty Dave Migman teaches us how to live and die. Fabulous Adam Lowe reveals his adventures in cross-genre, multimedia literature. And lovely Deb Hoag ... well, as usual, she’s got a surprise! ISBN: 978-1-907133-15-2 (print) / 978-1-907133-62-6 (ebook) £13.99 / $26.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 229mm x 152mm, 180pp Non-fiction, anthologies 30th May 2012


Terror Scribes Edited by Adam Lowe and Chris Kelso

About the Contributors

featuring Paul Kane, Marie O’Regan, Jeff Burk, Richard Farren Barber, Richard Thomas, John B. Ford & Steve Lines, Jay Eales, Derek M. Fox, John Palisano, Chris Kelso, Rachel Kendall, A.J. Kirby, Selina Lock, David Price, Adam Lowe, Wendy Jane Muzlanova, Jan Edwards, Deb Hoag, Sue Phillips, Sharon Kae Reamer & Robert D. Rowntree, Paul Bradshaw, Christy Leigh Stewart and Mark West.

Adam Lowe is Editor-in-Chief at Dog Horn Publishing, and was 2013 LGBT History Month Poet Laureate and Olympic poet for Yorkshire 2012. He has been nominated for four Lambda Literary Awards and an Eric Hoffer Award. Chris Kelso is the author of the forthcoming collection Schadenfreude. He has edited for Chomu Press, Eraserhead Press and Deadite Press. Why buy?

A wide-ranging anthology featuring horror, dark fantasy and transgressive fiction Features work by the Terror Scribes community, who have been active for over a decade Includes award-winning international writers

About the Book

Market/Categories: Horror, Dark Fantasy, Short Stories

There are many imitations of horror—some are as subtle as a smudge of mustard on a Jackson Pollock painting, others tear through your entire system like a derailed coal cart—but no one permutation is more effective than the other.

This is a satisfying collection guaranteed to set your teeth on edge and give you bouts of gooseflesh. From the home-grown talent of Sue Phillips to prolific US gore-hound Deb Hoag, from the satirists to the psychopaths to the traditionalists, everyone is well represented. We received some excellent stories from long-time Terror Scribes members, alongside some dazzling contributions from the newer members—and let’s not forget our downright peculiar compatriots from across the pond, who were invited to bring just a little bit of bizarro anarchy to the order! ISBN: 978-1-907133-34-3 (print) / 978-1-907133-65-7 (ebook) £14.99 / $27.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 229mm x 152mm, 256pp Fiction, anthologies 30th May 2012

WOMEN WRITING THE WEIRD Edited by Deb Hoag

"Stories that delight, surprise, that hang about the dusky edges of 'mainstream' fiction with characters, settings, plots that abandon the normal and mundane and explore new ideas, themes and ways of being." —Deb Hoag

About the Editor Deb Hoag has been writing professionally for over 20 years, starting at a weekly alternative newspaper in Detroit, The Metro Times. Her work there included editing, writing a column and organizing such events as the Detroit Music Awards and the newspaper’s yearly photography contest and Best Of issues. In the early 90s, Deb went back to school and was awarded a PhD in clinical psychology. She has run with Apaches, bikers, and now a fearsome cabal of cross-genre writers from around the world. These terrify her the most.

Why buy? Features international, award-winning writers The first anthology of its kind A comprehensive anthology of contemporary fantasy, science fiction and cross-genre fiction Market/Categories: Women Writers, Fantasy, Short Stories

About the Book

WEIRD FICTION: Stories that delight, surprise, that hang about the dusky edges of ‘mainstream’ fiction with characters, settings, plots that abandon the normal and mundane and explore new ideas, themes and ways of being. —Deb Hoag

featuring Nancy A. Collins, Eugie Foster, Janice Lee, Rachel Kendall, Candy Caradoc, Mysty Unger, Roberta Lawson, Sara Genge, Gina Ranalli, Deb Hoag, C. M. Vernon, Aliette de Bodard, Caroline M. Yoachim, Flavia Testa, Aimee C. Amodio, Ann Hagman Cardinal, Rachel Turner, Wendy Jane Muzlanova, Katie Coyle, Helen Burke, Janis Butler Holm, J.S. Breukelaar, Carol Novack, Tantra Bensko, Nancy DiMauro, Moira McPartlin. ISBN: 978-1-907133-26-8 (print) / 978-1-907133-66-4 (ebook) 216pp, £14.99 / $28.95 229mm x 152mm Anthologies 30th April 2012


PRECIOUS CARGO by Adam Lowe & Sue Shaw

About the Authors ADAM LOWE

Poetry INCLUDING: Lambda Literary Award nominee lavenderblack and Guadian First Book Award reader nominee Precocious

Adam Lowe is a writer, publisher and performer from Leeds. He currently lives in Manchester. Adam has had a number of important residencies and commissions: in 2013, he was LGBT History Month Poet Laureate; in 2012, he was Olympic poet for Yorkshire; in 2011, he was Writer in Residence at Zion Arts Centre; and in 2010, he was Young Writer in Residence at the I Love West Leeds Arts Festival. SUE SHAW

Sue Shaw’s poems and short stories appear in various anthologies and magazines. She also combines text and image to produce artists’ books, which are widely collected and exhibited. Her book of short stories, Looking For Mr Maxwell, is almost finished and several new poems are keeping her awake at night. Market/Categories: Poetry, Nature, Heritage

Why buy? • Relates to place, migration and history in Barnsley through the centuries • Themes of nature, change and colonialism make this an important resource for teaching English at KS2 • Features two Yorkshire poets known for their work with young people

About the Book In 2011, Adam Lowe and Sue Shaw led Barnsley Young Writers in exploring the collections at Wentworth Castle and Cannon Hall in Barnsley. Their task: to tell the stories of plant collectors and gardeners, colonialists and sailors, flowers and fruit in their movements to and from Barnsley. Precious Cargo was an exploration of our ties to the world and to the past, commissioned as part of London 2012’s Cultural Olympiad programme in Yorkshire. The poems here are just some of those inspired by the research of these Yorkshire poets.

ISBN: 978-1-907133-56-5 £5.00 / $9.95 229mm x 152mm, 32pp Poetry, anthologies 30th April 2012


LAVENDERBLACK by Adam Lowe

About the Book

lavenderblack collects together commissioned and widely performed poetry. alongside new and unpublished work from one of the brightest young voices on the UK poetry scene. lavenderblack charts an emerging voice as he discovers a decidedly British, black and queer identity, through homour, verve and playfulness. Subjects range from slavery to domestic violence, from clubbing to public sex, from celebrity culture to penis enlargement, from defiance to submission. Here, then, is a contemporary pamphlet with a bold scope, willing to grapple with the complex issues of British life in the 21st Century.

About the Author

Adam Lowe has been nominated for four Lambda Awards, the Venture Award and the Eric Hoffer Award. He has been writer in residence at I Love West Leeds, Zion Arts Centre, Wentworth Castle, Cannon Hall and Leeds Kirkgate Market. He was 2012 Olympic poet for Yorkshire and 2013 LGBT History Month Poet Laureate. He is currently part of The Complete Works II, a national development programme for advanced poets, with patron Carol Ann Duffy. Market/Categories: Gay & Lesbian/Queer, Black British, Poetry

Why buy? • Nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards in 2010 • Lyrical evocations of contemporary life and love

ISBN: 978-1-907133-10-7 £7.99 / $14.95 Poetry 1st December 2009

PRECOCIOUS by Adam Lowe

In Precocious, Adam Lowe investigates the sexual, the sensual and the personal with a playful sense of curiosity and an eye for the intricate nuances of human relationships. From cyberspace to the frozen food aisle, he leads us through fleeting encounters and unfulfilled expectations to a place of humanity and, eventually, strength. Market/Categories: LGBT, Poetry, Drama, Relationships & Sex

ISBN: 978-1-907133-34-3 (print) / 978-1-907133-75-6 (ebook) £6.99 / $13.95 (print), £2.99 / $5.99 (ebook) 234mm x 168mm, 32pp Poetry 30th April 2012

Why buy? • An ambitious collection of poems, featuring a play-inverse • Reveals a frank and incisive poetic persona • Written by a popular LGBT author with a large established audience

Magazines INCLUDING: Polluto 1-10


POLLUTO Eds. Adam Lowe (1-5), Victoria Hooper (5-8) This award-winning debut issue of Polluto features World Fantasy Awardwinner Jeff Vandermeer, Vince Locke, Deb Hoag, Rhys Hughes, Steve Redwood, RC Edrington, Adam Lowe, and Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon. Issue 3: Sex in the Time of VHS looks at snuff, sex, violence and videotape. With a guest appearance by Jack the Ripper.

Issue 5: A Steampunk Orange reveals the dingy redlight districts of Mars and the intrepid colonialist explorers who hunt giant squid in the clockwork submarines of an alternate past. Issue 7: The Open Issue features bone-crushing lovers, a cross-dressing hitman, the night-soil man of the gods, sex conditioned squids, the dangerous desires of the diabolically large, bodyswapping, gender-swapping, machines that are gods and machines that are cats . . .

Issue 2: Apocalypses & Garden Furniture examines the armagedden myths of today, from zombies to crime to social upheaval. Grab a deck chair and sit back as the world falls apart! Jeff VanderMeer on Darfur, death by sea monsters and the state of counterculture. Issue 4: Queer & Loathing in Wonderland sees diseased white rabbits and Black Power munchkins, pill-popping schizophrenics and steampunk whores.

Issue 6: Identity Theft & the Octopus Kid features grand larceny and deepsea sects. Feak jellyfish mutation is out this season. Homeless shelter abductions, portals and wormholes are in. The aliens are emerging and they want your vote!

Issue 8: In Space No One Can Hear You Dream delivers aliens, monsters, gods, fantasies, nightmares, transformations, strange worlds, the search for truth, sphere serpents and zombie amazons.

“What happens when you take the online component of 3AM Magazine, the speculative works and wonder of Zahir, the artistic equivalent of Juxtapoz Magazine, and throw in something new, fresh, dark, gritty, hip, surreal, poetic, and themed? You get Polluto. . . “ —Lawrence Dagstine

POLLUTO 9-10 Edited by Victoria Hooper Market/Categories: Journals, Science Fiction, Poetry, Humour, Fantasy

Polluto 9 3/4 - Witchfinders vs the Evil Red. Strange, sinister shadows jump and skitter in the firelight. Broomsticks and black hats are silhouetted against the moon, and in the darkness witchfinders hunt their hated enemy. Under the influence of their Ghastly Tome, the army of the Red gathers its forces in the night. Join us as our all-American hero battles against the Reds within their midst. Zombies, magic, witch-hunts, spies, communists, boarding schools, supervillains and bad comic book tie-ins all lie in wait for our intrepid adventurer. Can he save the day before it’s too late?

‘ . . . despite the transgressive subject matter, [it is] lighthearted.’ —Jim Steel, The Fix

Polluto 10 - Wage Slave Orgy. Clutch your credit-chips close and head on over to see what Polluto has on offer: a world of malls, stretching endlessly into one another. Systems of oppression, both real and fictional. Corporations of the future, Flooded London, money and privilege, a human life claimed for art. A mathematician feverishly tattooing his formulae onto prisoners of war. Workers on special offer: cheap-labour, clone-labour and corpse-labour. And bear in mind, valued customers, that nothing comes for free!

IMPERIAL YOUTH REVIEW Edited by Chris Kelso & Garrett Cook Market/Categories: Journals, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays

Imperial Youth Review is Dog Horn Publishing’s answer to The New Yorker: a fierce blend of fiction, poetry, art, essays and the spirit of youthful rebellion, Imperial Youth Review has already become a major player in the indie press world, expecially among the bizarro and horror communities. Issue One features: Edward Morris, Tim Lucas, Don Webb, Nick Mamatas, Nikki Guerlain, Steve Aylett, Adam Lowe, Lydia Fascia, Tom Bradley, Matthew Revert, Nick Patterson, Alan M. Clark, Vikki Hastings, David Aronson, Nick Gucker, Justin Coons, Jess Gulbranson ISBN: 978-1-907133-49-7 £8.99 / $17.95 234mm x 156mm, 64pp. Anthologies, fiction, poetry 30th October 2012


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