Brian Evenson, Author . Coffee House $14.95 (223p) ISBN 978-1-56689-188-2
Evenson (Altmann's Tongue
) explores some controversial Mormon history in this thoughtful thriller rooted in an actual century-old murder case. When Rudd, a disaffected, fatherless Mormon teenager living in an unspecified part of Utah, discovers
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Brian Evenson, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $22 (232p) ISBN 978-1-56858-116-3
It's not easy to tell in this psychological chiller whether Provost Eldon Fochs is a recipient of the devil's attention or a criminal psychopath with delusions. In the end, it doesn't matter. Evenson's disturbing first novel addresses what he calls "
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Brian Evenson. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-56689-298-8
Both smartly referential and admirably distinct in voice, this collection of literary horror stories is also plagued by unevenness. The shades of Poe, Lovecraft, and the brothers Grimm are palpable, inflecting stories like “Dapplegrim,” about a boy...
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Brian Evenson. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (270p) ISBN 978-1-56689-413-5
Admirers of Evenson (Windeye; Altmann’s Tongue) applaud the edge he maintains between the unexplained and the intimate. This latest collection continues to explore that line, and for how much is left obscured, an eerie emotional echo remains. In the
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Brian Evenson. Coffee House, $16.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-56689-548-4
In the title tale of this collection, the main character identifies the mood of disorienting uncertainty that pervades all 22 unsettling stories when he ponders a world “that was always threatening to come unraveled around him.” In “Line of Sight,”...
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Brian Evenson. Coffee House, $19 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-56689-709-9
This transfixing collection of 19 weird tales from Evenson (None of You Shall Be Spared) traps its characters in bizarre and dangerous situations. In “The Sequence,” twin sisters playing a children’s game access a strange realm that exists “just...
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Brian Evenson, Author, Gordon Lish, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $22 (239p) ISBN 978-0-679-42912-8
The spirit of Edgar Allan Poe inhabits this collection of violent and mysterious stories that recall not only that master of the perverse but also the seamier side of the nightly news. Death seems to arrive inevitably, often quickly, in these tales;
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Brian Evenson. Tor, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3096-3
Josef Horkai wakes, remembering nothing of his circumstances except for an apocalyptic event known as the Kollaps, and is dispatched to find a mysterious stolen cylinder in a postapocalyptic landscape whose intensity and chilling details rival those
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Jesse Ball, Brian Evenson, and Lilli Carré. Uncivilized (Consortium, dist.), $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-941250-20-4
Cats have nothing on the many lives of Henry King, who dies on almost every page of this twisted collaboration. Ball (A Cure for Suicide), winner of the Paris Review George Plimpton Prize, and Evenson (Windeye) both possess a dark humor that fits...
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Brian Evenson, Author, Zak Sally, Illustrator , illus. by Zak Sally. Coffee House $14.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-56689-225-4
Evenson (The Open Curtain
) accesses dark, unusual facets of human frailty, powerlessness and fear in this collection, haunted by themes of amnesia, aphasia and creeping infirmity. Hecker, the protagonist of O’Henry Prize–winner “Mu
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Edited by Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle. Written Backwards, $15.95 trade paper (306p) ISBN 978-1-62641-267-5
Human evolution, in its many possible forms, is the focus of this gripping anthology of spooky science fiction. In Lisa Morton’s “Eyes of the Beholders,” a group of space colonists who return to Earth after a failed and tragic mission find the...
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Brian Evenson. Coffee House, $16.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-56689-611-5
“The world is a hell because we have made it so,” begins a story in Evenson’s towering collection of nightmarish horror, sci-fi parables, and weird tales (after Song for the Unraveling of the World). Indeed, devils abound while mortals plant the...
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