Books by Mike Allen and Complete Book Reviews
Mike Allen. Antimatter, $15.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-9889124-1-0
Allen’s 14-story debut collection saturates alternate dimensions with literal horrific fleshiness. His unsettling Nebula-nominated “The Button Bin” is as disorienting as it is disturbing; it neatly sets the stage for the blood-soaked dreamscape...
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Mike Allen. Mythic Delirium, $14.95 ISBN 978-0-9889124-6-5
Elegant language and surrealistic themes defy genre and moral expectations in the weird and transgressive stories found in this collection. Assassins of old gods become their beloved emissaries in “She Who Runs.” Technological body modification...
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Mike Allen. Mythic Delirium, $15.95 trade paper (236p) ISBN 978-1-73264-402-1
Allen (Unseaming) overflows the tank with nightmare fuel in this collection of 23 stories and poems that showcase his ability to find the monstrous in almost any setting. Bracketed by two poems (“Six Waking Nightmares Poe Gave Me in the Third Grade”
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Mike Allen. Mythic Delirium, $18.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-956522-03-7
Nebula, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Award finalist Allen (Aftermath of an Industrial Accident) presents a titillating collection of 14 horror stories and poems. Throughout, Allen takes the idea of nothing being as it seems to supernatural...
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