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Synopsis
About the Author
Two-time Shirley Jackson Award winner, Kurt Fawver, is a writer of horror, weird fiction, and literature that oozes between the cracks of genre. His stories have also been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Fawver is the author of three previous collections, The Dissolution of Small Worlds (Lethe Press), Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications), and We Are Happy, We Are Doomed (Grimscribe Press). He lives in the rustlands of northeastern Ohio where he teaches writing and literature at a community college. You can find him online on Facebook or at kurtfawver.com.
Praise for EVERYWHERE IS A HORROR STORY
“In these 14 new stories, Kurt Fawver continues his singular autopsy of the human tragedy. From metafiction that would make Vonnegut and Calvino blush to existential horror in the veins of Ligotti or Cisco, Fawver never shies away from a challenge. But what makes him great are the genuinely captivating stories that hold his complex ideas, these dead hearts that go on thriving.”
— Michael Wehunt, author of The October Film Haunt and Nightjars
“Fawver wields his pen like a knife, peeling back the surface of the world to reveal what we usually ignore, reject, or run from. This book confirms his status as one of the sharpest writers currently shaping the field we call horror, but that, as he shows us, we might just as well call life.”
— Matt Cardin, author of To Rouse Leviathan and What the Daemon Said
“Fawver is a literary Rückenfigur: the reader of his tales looks over the author’s shoulders to view the absurd and horrific panorama of this world with an academic or journalistic posture and we survey a reality which is reflected back in grotesque yet telling distortions, a literal ghost-of-now mirroring current unease. The stories in Everywhere is a Horror Story are mutated, bizarre romans à clef, a Marcusian nightmare where any ‘feast of sensuousness’ is the sheer enormity of an unrelenting infinity of bleak certainty in both the socio-political and cosmic realms, all of which incites a shuddering, breathless awe in response to the repressive labor of existing. Fawver’s work is simply astounding.”
— Christopher Slatsky, author of The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature
“The scares are… deliciously perverse but still resonate with real-world anxieties. This well-rounded collection will be a treat for any horror fan.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
Praise for Kurt Fawver
“Kurt Fawver is one of the most innovative and unique voices to emerge in weird fiction in the last decade… Highly recommended.”
— Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals
“If we’re talking about Thomas Ligotti and Michael Cisco, we need to be talking about Kurt Fawver.”
— Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase
“This is the most disturbing part of Kurt Fawver’s expertly drawn, densely detailed, and philosophical stories—the ineffectuality of humans, individually or collectively, in the face of a great cosmic mystery. No matter how intelligent we are, no matter how lofty or how mundane our intentions, we are no match for the universe.”
— S. P. Miskowski, author of I Wish I Was Like You
”[Fawver’s] singular vision crosses back and forth across the thin boundary separating the absurd from the horrific, creating amalgamations that are as bizarre as they are unnerving. Kurt Fawver has staked a claim in the genre that’s all his own.”
— Simon Strantzas, author of Nothing is Everything
“Fawver is an absolute master of the strange fable.”
— Christopher Slatsky, author of The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature
“Kurt Fawver traffics in dark allegories, deeply strange fables, and the boldly outré. He’s a true original, a treasure.”
— Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination
“Kurt Fawver’s stories are nasty little shockers that dare to dream big. And he isn’t afraid to follow those big and totally mad ideas through to their horrific conclusions.”
— Paul Tremblay, Author of Survivor Song
“Kurt Fawver’s tales are gruesome and poignant.”
— Richard Gavin, Author of grotesquerie
“Fawver has an original, and at times twisted, imagination. He is also a great stylist, and has that rare ability of layering his fiction with philosophical and symbolic meaning which blends effortlessly with the visceral text.”
— C.M. Muller, CthonicMatte
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