Maternity
And Yet
Black Bark
A Report
The Punish
A Collapse of Horses
Three Indignities
Cult
Hospice
The Dust
BearHeart
Scour
Torpor
Past Reno
The Moans
The Window
Lost Dog
Click
The Blood Drip
Endorsements (potential): Kyle Minor, Matt Bell, Kelly Link, Amelia
Gray
Interview (confirmed): Hayden Bennett in The Believer
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Brian Evenson: Praised by Peter Straub for going furthest out on
the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice, Brian Evenson
has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award,
and the World Fantasy Award and the winner of the International
Horror Guild Award, the American Library Association s award for
Best Horror Novel, and one of "Time Out New York" s top books. The
recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and three
O. Henry Prizes, Evenson lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where
he directs Brown University s Literary Arts Program.
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“Some of the stories here evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some
Roald Dahl, and one, a demonic teddy-bear chiller called
'BearHeart™,' even Stephen King, but Evenson’s deadpan style always
estranges them a bit from their models: He tells his odd tales
oddly, as if his mouth were dry and the words won’t come out
right.” —New York Time Sunday Book Review
“Evenson’s fiction is equal parts obsessive, experimental, and
violent. It can be soul-shaking.” —New Yorker
"Evenson's stories, small masterworks of literary horror, are
elegantly tense. They operate in psychological territory, never
relying on grossness or slasher silliness to convey their
scariness. . . . For the Stephen King fan in the house: an author
as capable, if a touch less prolific." —Kirkus Reviews
“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. . . . Evenson’s journey
along the boundaries of short fiction make for an eye-opening
dissection of the form.” —Publishers Weekly
“You never realize how deep his fiction has wormed its way into
your brain until hours, days, even weeks later, when you’re lying
in the dark and Evenson’s images come flooding back, unbidden. A
Collapse of Horses will stay with you for a long time...whether you
want it to or not.” —Chicago Review of Books
“While each piece in A Collapse of Horses stands alone as a tale
that combines 'literary' and 'horror' elements in novel ways that
blur genre distinctions, the collection intensifies as recurring
motifs flow through the various narratives, settings, and fictional
psyches: bodily and mental disintegration, the ambiguities of human
physicality and consciousness, and the permeable borders between
self and other.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
"A Collapse of Horses is a perennially dusty, dark, haunted house
of atmospheric dilemmas whose plots continually reverse a reader's
expectations." —The Collagist
“Evenson is interested in philosophy and semiotics, the
impossibility of ever truly knowing or naming the world, and our
fundamental, helpless dependence on what our senses tell us. . . .
. [His stories] are a wonderful feat of the uncanny.” —Los Angeles
Review
Entropy, "Ultimate Summer Reading List"
“This is Brian Evenson’s 12th collection, and reading it one soon
becomes aware of being in the presence of a peculiar intelligence.”
—Toronto Star
"Evenson is a writer with an uncommonly dark vision, and in 2016 he
figures to find his biggest audience yet.” —Star Tribune
“Violence is punishing but unbelievably subtle in Evenson's
delicate, minimalist stories. And ultimately, there is something
cosmic—something utterly Lovecraftian, but without the baroque
language—about this type of horror: Beneath the slippery, often
abstruse plots lies a vast gulf of nothingness, in the purest and
most unsettling sense of the word.” —NPR
"Evenson has become a kind of elder statesman for innovative
fiction.” —Tin House
“A master of literary horror, Evenson’s books mix literary
sentences with science fiction and fantasy tropes and tie them
together with a thread of uncanny dread.” —GQ
"This new collection, released alongside new editions of three of
his older works, offers a great summation of Evenson’s strengths as
a writer.” —Vol. 1 Brooklyn, "Mid-Year 2016: The Year's Best
Fiction (So Far)"
“A Collapse of Horses, [Evenson’s] recent collection of seventeen
short stories, maintains a perfect balance of literary and horror.
While not every entry would be categorized as strict horror,
there’s something that lurks at the edges of these stories—a
haunting uncertainty about knowledge, about the fixedness of
reality—that gnaw and frighten the reader the way horror does.”
—Pleiades
“The stories that comprise A Collapse of Horses . . . venture into
increasingly dark, even apocalyptic, terrain while maintaining a
narrative control that owes at least as much to the experimental
spirit of the Oulipo as to the usual suspects of American weird
(Poe, Bowles, Burroughs).” —The White Review, interview
“A Collapse of Horses is a stunning collection of disparate tales
of existential terror, which could serve as a good introduction to
readers who are not familiar with his work. However, allow your
reviewer to warn you: once you have read Evenson, you will want to
read all of Evenson; yet beware, like most addictions, it is a
dangerous pursuit and one not easy to pass through unscathed.” —The
Brooklyn Rail
“There is no colour in these stories, and hardly an image. Taken
separately, they can seem as cold as ice. But allowed to touch each
other horribly, they burn. The collection as a whole comes as close
to adding up as the world is likely to allow to those who have lost
their way. Each story says what the world does to those who drift
into its claws without a lie to cling to.” —Strange Horizons
“One of the premier dark fiction writers working today, Brian
Evenson releases a new collection of his hallucinatory stories, A
Collapse of Horses. The brilliant title story reads like an Oliver
Sacks case study rendered by Edgar Allan Poe. His standout novel
Last Days, a labyrinthine mystery inside a cult of amputees, also
gets a new reissue.” —Campus Circle
“While these stories have all the earmarks of Evenson's fiction
with varying degrees of violence, horror and dread, A Collapse of
Horses doesn't complete the picture of Evenson's career so much as
spin it in a number of fascinating new directions, each more
unsettling than the last.” —San Diego City Beat
“America’s greatest horror writer evokes the schism between
perceptions and realities, and, to unsettling effect, collapses the
unseen bond that so delicately bridges them.” —San Francisco
Chronicle
“Brian Evenson is one of the most consistently vital and unnerving
voices in writing today. . . . No matter where you start with
Evenson's work, the door is wide ajar, and once you go through it
you won't be coming out.” —VICE
“A Collapse of Horses is a master class in unnerving storytelling;
seventeen short narratives that range from horror to science
fiction and from surrealism to noir. The variety is outstanding,
the writing is superb, but what makes this collection deserving of
attention is how Evenson manages to achieve a perfect balance
between what is on the page and what is left out.” —Electric
Literature, "A Master at Work"
“Brian Evenson’s fiction can both bowl you over with its
unpredictable narrative experimentation and chill you to the bone
with its ability to unsettle and horrify.” —Vol.1 Brooklyn
"A Collapse of Horses is the first of Evenson's books I have read.
Since finishing it, I have read three more, in succession.”
—LitReactor
“For fans of Stephen King, Kafka, and Lovecraft, A Collapse of
Horses is a delightfully terrifying collection.” —Windsor
Independent
“Weaving the act of storytelling into these terrifying stories is
no small accomplishment. Evenson’s precision allows him to give his
latest book multiple layers—a way of slowly introducing the reader
into the same medium as the characters, and indicting them in the
process.” —Bookforum
"While they run the gamut of genres, these stories all lie in the
same orbit of dark gravity: a field of dust, blood, head trauma,
inert flesh, semicorporeal stuff and fear–mainly the terror of what
we're capable of." —The Rumpus
"Bordering the grey area between literary and horror, the stories
allow us to get as close as possible to the point where madness
begins to boil over into certainty." —This is Horror (UK)
"Evenson's latest book, A Collapse of Horses, reveals that his
unsettling talents have grown subtler and stronger—between
seventeen stories featuring unsolvable mind-games, drugged-out
cults, and space-station claustrophobia, all rendered in Evenson's
unmistakable prose, which is capable of suggesting both grounded
realism and jittery paranoia, often at the same time. . . . Evenson
excels at bringing different worlds and genres together, and his
gift for making contradictory versions of reality overlap often
intensifies his work's creepy effects." —Bookforum
“[Brian Evenson] happily straddles both literature and horror in an
amalgam that’s rarely so powerful and convincing as in this
collection.” —Rue Morgue
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