Stories depict the everyday mysteries and cruelties of modern life (view table of contents)

Product Description: Magazine. Essays. Fiction. Poetry. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Published in the Spring and Fall of each year by Bard College. The forty-eighth issue of CONJUNCTIONS celebrates that yearning which bends the soul out of its original shape-desire-in all its forms, all its hostile and gentle multiplicities...read more

Product Description: Fiction. CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES is one of Brian Evenson's most sought after and lauded collections of fiction. It has been out of print for nearly a decade. With short stories like the O. Henry Award-winning "Two Brothers," Evenson takes his readers into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions...read more

Carrying a dying baby across a desert toward the site of a mysterious resurrection cult, a woman, menaced by scavengers and pursued by a bounty hunter, harbors dark suspicions about the fortress's true nature. Original.

Product Description: Short story collection

Convinced that he is the illegitimate grandchild of Harry Houdini, unemployed electric chair executioner Howard Hordinary is tormented by multiple perversities throughout his attempt to restore his status, an endeavor marked by carnies, scientists, and his would-be progenitor's obsessive life. Original.

A violent pedophile, Provost Fochs transforms the lives of his young parishioners into a nightmare, an ordeal that is worsened by the efforts of the church to cover up his crimes. A first novel. IP.

Product Description: Giacometti’s sculptures have become icons of modernism. Since the 1960s, poet and critic John Ashbery’s limited-edition translation of Jacques Dupin’s seminal essay on Giacometti has been legendary in art circles. Now, for the first time, this essay by Dupin — one of France’s greatest curators as well as Giacometti’s dealer and close friend — is made available...read more

When you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has destroyed what used to exist before, but you can't remember exactly what did exist before. And you're paralyzed from the waist down apparently, but you don't remember that either.A man claiming to be your friend tells you your services are required. Something crucial has been stolen, but what he tells you about it doesn't quite add up. You've got to get it back or something bad is going to happen. And you've got to get it back fast, so they can freeze you again before your own time runs out. Before you know it, you're being carried through a ruined landscape on the backs of two men in hazard suits who don't seem anything like you at all, heading toward something you don't understand that may well end up being the death of you.Welcome to the life of Josef Horkai….

Product Description: Praise for Incidents in the Night Book 1:finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Graphic Novel category):"One of 10 Best Comics and Graphic Novels of the year."—Time"A treat for sophisticated adult story omnivores with a taste for bizarre mysteries...read more

Product Description: "The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson's singular, Poe-like gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady hand, even when his characters decide to lop their own limbs off...read more

Product Description: Still reeling from a brutal dismemberment, detective Kline is forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside a religious cult that takes literally the New Testament idea that you should cut off your hand if it offends you. Armed only with his gun, his wits, and a gift for self-preservation, Kline must navigate a gauntlet of lies, threats, and misinformation...read more

Product Description: Still reeling from a brutal dismemberment, detective Kline is forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside a religious cult that takes literally the New Testament idea that you should cut off your hand if it offends you. Armed only with his gun, his wits, and a gift for self-preservation, Kline must navigate a gauntlet of lies, threats, and misinformation...read more

When disturbed Utah teenager Rudd Theurer discovers that he has a half-brother in Provo, he sets out to meet him and finds they are both interested in 'blood atonement,' an arcane concept of the early Mormon church.

"One day unlike the others, he’ll run into a husband worse than the others, he’ll run into trouble. I often thought this. Well, I was wrong, it was a woman he ran into, a woman worse than the others, here’s what happened." What happened is the shocking tale told deftly by the brilliant French minimalist Christian Gailly in Red Haze. It is a story at once spare and mysteriously complex, complicated by the ever odder perspective of the narrator as the details accumulate. Lucien, the narrator’s friend, is a rake, a womanizer who womanizes once too often and loses his offending member to his latest conquest. As the narrator’s interest in the mutilated man and the vengeful woman grows into an obsession, Red Haze becomes an unsettling story of how closely intertwined love and hatred, passion and cruelty can be. Winner of the prestigious Prix France Culture, Red Haze is the third of Christian Gailly’s ten novels to be published in English. The first, The Passion of Martin Fissel-Brandt, is also published by the University of Nebraska Press.