Peter Darbyshire’s work has appeared in publications across North America. His novel Please won the KM Hunter Artist Award for Literature and the ReLit Award for Best Novel, and was featured on CTV. His novel The Warhol Gang received rave reviews across Canada and generally disturbed people. He also publishes a series of spec-fic novels under the alias Peter Roman. Darbyshire lives in a safehouse outside Vancouver.
"An off-kilter, phantasmagorical treat. Darbyshire delights in
mashing pop-culture genres together, exposing profound truths
beneath classic tropes in ways at once hilarious, weird, and
heart-breaking. Any collection that has H.P. Lovecraft's legendary
god Cthulhu working for a temp agency gets an automatic pass from
me."
*Corey Redekop*
"Darbyshire delights in mashing pop-culture genres together,
exposing profound truths beneath classic tropes in ways at once
hilarious, weird, and heart-breaking."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Each of these pieces is bleak in tone and absurd on its face, but
Darbyshire imbues them with unexpected emotional complexity and
moral ambiguity."
*Quill & Quire*
"But in the tradition of writers such as Neil Gaiman, Darbyshire
knows how to keep the action moving so you can comfortably bounce
around the story with no particular place to go, frequently
laughing out loud at the descriptions. The end, it turns out, is
meaningless."
*Vancouver Sun*
"In Peter Darbyshire’s book of short stories, the world has
definitely ended or is ending, although it has ended differently
and on a variety of scales per story. Sometimes it’s catastrophic
for everybody, sometimes just a couple of city blocks frozen in
time. He also places a couple of the stories right in hell and told
from the demon’s perspective, which, as you can guess, is a little
bit skewed. In Darbyshire’s fiction, the world and the people in it
are somehow us and familiar and somehow not. Superheroes have to
retire, angels are probably not that great, and everybody is fully
aware that marketing is evil. And models are too. They still don’t
eat anything. Except other people."
*Reading Writers Fest*
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