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ANTISOCIETIES

 

Author:
Michael Cisco
Cover Artist: Jesse Peper
Publication Date: April 15, 2021 (elsewhere on May 15, 2021)
Published by: Grimscribe Press
152 pp.

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Synopsis

ANTISOCIETIES is a collection of ten stories about isolation — what it does to people, and what isolated people do to each other and themselves. An ominously quiet town. A haunting young adult novel from the turn of the century. Two starving captives frozen in agony. A young boy from a doting family. A man in a cheap Halloween mask. A succession of portraits of people trapped in their own identities, some of whom insist on their own ideas because they would have nothing at all without them. People for whom being seen by another is terrifying. And, like any collection of portraits, ANTISOCIETIES is also a collection of speculative mirrors …


Table of Contents

Intentionally Left Blank

Milking

Stillville

My Hand of Glory

The Starving of Saqqara

The Purlieus

Saccade

Antisocieties

Oneiropaths

Water Machine


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About the Author

Michael Cisco published ten novels including The Divinity Student, The Great Lover, The Narrator, ANIMAL MONEY, and UNLANGUAGE, and a short story collection called Secret Hours. His short fiction has appeared in: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Lovecraft Unbound, Black Wings, Blood and Other Cravings, THE WEIRD, The Grimscribe’s Puppets, and Aickman’s Heirs, among others. He teaches at CUNY Hostos.


Praise for Michael Cisco

“With this extraordinary collection Cisco proves he is as incomparable in short form as he is in long. Astonishing. Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today.” -China Miéville

“Michael Cisco’s works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself.”
-Thomas Ligotti

“At this point, it appears Cisco is simply operating in a sphere that most weird fiction writers never reach, or attain only rarely, and is doing it effortlessly.”
–Weird Fiction Review

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