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"Within, you will find tales of messy lives stitched together, twisted obsessions, violence, dark magic, and body horror from multiple perspectives. Truly a slow burn readers will crave to simmer in."
-Ai Jiang, Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker award-nominated author of
Linghun
and
I Am AI
"Unsettling, perceptive, always surprising, always absorbing-
Slow Burn
is a collection of gems."
-Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of
Beneath the Rising
"Consuming horror that is not for the squeamish!"
-Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award(R)-winning author of
Grotesque: Monster Stories
"At turns dripping with Cronenberg body horror, infused with Barker misanthropy, and crawling with the darkest fantasy, the stories and poems in
are beautifully crafted to lure you in, but their beauty won't let you go easily. There are too many strange limbs for that."
-Michael Wehunt, author of
The Inconsolables
The search for a missing grandson unearths a pit of unholy hunger. A war between flesh-stealing supernatural entities will subject an entire city to devastating mayhem. In a harrowing future world, a slave is charged by his terrifying master with building a creature in its likeness. The voyage of a plague ship won't end at mere death. Parasites are partners and lovers, and the immortal soul is but a single stage in the complex life cycle of a symbiote.
gathers fourteen stories of horror and thirteen macabre poems by two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen, author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated collections
Unseaming
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident
. Allen's works are "exquisite and vivid, his worlds rich with brilliant detail," says three-time Bram Stoker Award(R) winner Christina Sng in her introduction. "The images he paints with words are terrifying and mesmerizing, keeping you enthralled, unable to look away."
These tales and verses, set in worlds of fantasy and sorcery, in twisted, surreal futures, and in hard-boiled modern milieus . . . all find ways to explore the abyssal darkness of the human heart.
"Diabolically inventive and varied ... You'll laugh, shudder, cry, and throw up a little in your mouth. Mike Allen's range can outstretch any fleshy hell-tendril, darting from experimental poetry to cheeky Clive Barker satire to whip-sharp supernatural thrillers ... achingly human characters and heaping, writhing helpings of body horror."
-Rich Larson, author of
Ymir
Tomorrow Factory
"By turns gorgeous, horrifying, gruesome, furious, darkly erotic, wickedly funny, and frequently all of those things at once, this extraordinary collection never shies away from pushing the reader's boundaries. Allen masterfully succeeds in being transgressive in all the best and most beautiful ways. I adore this book."
-Sunny Moraine, author of
Your Shadow Half Remains
"Don't let the title fool you,
is an artistic flame that blazes like an inferno from start to finish!"
-Vaughn A. Jackson, author of
Touched by Shadows
"Within, you will find tales of messy lives stitched together, twisted obsessions, violence, dark magic, and body horror from multiple perspectives. Truly a slow burn readers will crave to simmer in."
-Ai Jiang, Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker award-nominated author of
Linghun
and
I Am AI
"Unsettling, perceptive, always surprising, always absorbing-
Slow Burn
is a collection of gems."
-Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of
Beneath the Rising
"Consuming horror that is not for the squeamish!"
-Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award(R)-winning author of
Grotesque: Monster Stories
"At turns dripping with Cronenberg body horror, infused with Barker misanthropy, and crawling with the darkest fantasy, the stories and poems in
are beautifully crafted to lure you in, but their beauty won't let you go easily. There are too many strange limbs for that."
-Michael Wehunt, author of
The Inconsolables
The search for a missing grandson unearths a pit of unholy hunger. A war between flesh-stealing supernatural entities will subject an entire city to devastating mayhem. In a harrowing future world, a slave is charged by his terrifying master with building a creature in its likeness. The voyage of a plague ship won't end at mere death. Parasites are partners and lovers, and the immortal soul is but a single stage in the complex life cycle of a symbiote.
gathers fourteen stories of horror and thirteen macabre poems by two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen, author of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated collections
Unseaming
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident
. Allen's works are "exquisite and vivid, his worlds rich with brilliant detail," says three-time Bram Stoker Award(R) winner Christina Sng in her introduction. "The images he paints with words are terrifying and mesmerizing, keeping you enthralled, unable to look away."
These tales and verses, set in worlds of fantasy and sorcery, in twisted, surreal futures, and in hard-boiled modern milieus . . . all find ways to explore the abyssal darkness of the human heart.
"Diabolically inventive and varied ... You'll laugh, shudder, cry, and throw up a little in your mouth. Mike Allen's range can outstretch any fleshy hell-tendril, darting from experimental poetry to cheeky Clive Barker satire to whip-sharp supernatural thrillers ... achingly human characters and heaping, writhing helpings of body horror."
-Rich Larson, author of
Ymir
Tomorrow Factory
"By turns gorgeous, horrifying, gruesome, furious, darkly erotic, wickedly funny, and frequently all of those things at once, this extraordinary collection never shies away from pushing the reader's boundaries. Allen masterfully succeeds in being transgressive in all the best and most beautiful ways. I adore this book."
-Sunny Moraine, author of
Your Shadow Half Remains
"Don't let the title fool you,
is an artistic flame that blazes like an inferno from start to finish!"
-Vaughn A. Jackson, author of
Touched by Shadows
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