Tag: Apocalypse Party
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Dave Fitzgerald on Interrogating the Abyss, collected works by Chris Kelso
What is the abyss? Several years back, I went hiking in the Catskills with my now-wife, my childhood best friend, and his then-girlfriend in search of some unmapped swimming hole cliffjumps we’d heard about. The first one we came to was quite high, and quite narrow—a slim, deep canyon enclosing a complexly tiered waterfall. There…
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Terminal Park, a novel by Gary J. Shipley, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald
How do you write about the meaning behind a book whose core subject is essentially the end of meaning? How do you encapsulate a book that struggles to contain itself? That churns, and roils, and seeps off of every page until its typeface is practically crawling up your arms and invading your orifices like the…
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“Maggie Siebert’s Dead Kitten as the Persecution of Consciousness by Reality’s Imitation of Eternity”: Charlene Elsby’s Review of BONDING
“Every Day for the Rest of Your Life” is the final story in Maggie Siebert’s Bonding, and it’s the kind of thing that doesn’t leave you, because it elucidates something fundamental to the persistence of the terrible—a fundamental premise we know to be true, but which isn’t made explicit except by madmen and metaphysicians. Maggie…
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Noah Thornburgh on B.R. Yeager’s cosmic horror novel Negative Space
Works of cosmic horror threaten to consume their characters by the end. We expect an ultimate resolution, not necessarily through an explanation of the mysteries that preceded, but by the total convergence of the experience in a singular mystery. The Outside snuffs out the characters, inspires madness in them, cripples them—some final effect demonstrating the…
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“A Cadaver Is Filled with Plenty of Material Activity”: Mike Corrao Talks to B.R. Yeager, Author of the Horror Novel Negative Space
I recently had the chance to sit down with B.R. Yeager and discuss his upcoming book Negative Space, which will be coming out from Apocalypse Party in March 2020. Negative Space is an unsettling novel exploring the occult experiences of teenagers as they navigate their lives in a rural town. B.R. Yeager reps Western Massachusetts.…
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XEROX OVER MANHATTAN, an Apocalypse Party novel by Shane Jesse Christmass, reviewed by Bryce Jones
Narrative buttons smashed. Glitching the reader through three frames of reality. External/internal/media. Each sentence tersely punctuated. The reader written into demolishing pauses. No paragraphs. Periods acting like doormen, asleep on the job, letting in strangers. A flimsy caesura. Loose nails pierce the page-walls. Purported as breath-hangings. Wrinkled breath bleating on the floor of your chest:…
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KILLING POPPY, a novel by William Perk, reviewed by Paul Dee Fecteau
When we tell stories about addiction, two well-worn narratives hold sway. In one, addicts personify failure, debasing themselves in the face of the glory of the American Dream. In the other, they embody nobility, struggling against a darkness not of their own making. In Killing Poppy, published in September by Apocalypse Party, William Perk savages…
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