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Reporters and sociologists occasionally make headlines by going "undercover" in the working class economy, taking low-paying jobs and "trying to survive." The results are almost always (unintentionally) laughable. Kaleita doesn't need to go undercover to report from the front lines, though. She's been living there her entire life. There's a raw authenticity to her voice. Her writing is unpretentious yet inventive, riddled with a healthy dose of black humor...If I were her manager, I would fire her on the spot after reading this book. Not because she's a lawsuit waiting to happen-she might be-but because This Book Is Brought To You By My Student Loans makes it clear the job she's most qualified for is being a writer. - Andrew Shaffer, author of Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery

In the woods behind their Delaware suburb, Bennet, Toshi, and Jay decide to build a sex fort as a lure for girls. This summer, before they start tenth grade, they'll lose their virginities. But things go awry, and Jay's anger, fueled by his involvement with a white supremacist group, throws the friends into turmoil. When Bennet and Jay take desperate measures to escape their problems, they encounter unhappily divorced men, Florida swamp monsters, and bizarre strangers, until all their worst decisions begin to implode the world around them.

Lune's mother cannot stop crying after all the hospitals shut down. She cries and cries and finally she is exiled to the cenote, where her tears endlessly fill the giant sink hole. She becomes a big tourist attraction. People come from miles to see Marcrina cry into the cenote? part prisoner, part carnival attraction, part saint, Marcrina's story is one of heartbreak, love, and endurance. This is the story of Lune, of Marcrina, of Lune's son Nico, and of a strange place called Cenote City, where the world of magic and the dead entwines with daily life in enchanting and unsettling ways.

Nightmares in Ecstasy is a collection of thirteen stories of surreal body horror. Within its pages, the line between eroticism and terror, desire and death, is blurred. Damaged souls hurtle, as if in a dream, toward mutilation, transformation and fates worse than death. It is literary hardcore fiction for fans of David Cronenberg, Junji Ito, and Clive Barker.“Surreal, grotesque, erotic. Brendan Vidito is a unique and disturbing new voice.”-Wrath James White, author of If You Died Tomorrow I Would Eat Your Corpse "Brendan Vidito is the bastard son of Clive Barker and his fresh take on body horror will f**k you up."-Jack Bantry, creator of Splatterpunk Zine & author of The Lucky Ones Died First "Vidito's words squirt shocking psychosexual bug juice into your brain's most private parts."-John Skipp, author of The Light at the End

From the creator of Carnivàle and writer/executive producer of Blacklist, comes a poetry collection from a cult icon. Daniel Knauf brings the darkness and surrealism fans have grown to love, but brings a vulnerability and intimacy that makes each poem memorable and enjoyable. It is noir with heart and a coda for the soul. Darkness and light vying for dominance in poems that go from personal and confessional to rambunctiously fantastical. A heady dive into the abyss of love and other monsters. Daniel Knauf is a true storyteller. “Written as a soul song for longing, Knauf’s collection is both a dream and an awakening.”-Stephanie M. Wytovich, Bram Stoker award-winning author of Brothel. “In Daniel Knauf’s two-part composition of poetry, the first passage is a kaleidoscope of the landlocked in endless roles, trying to believe in true love/magic while submerged in self-destruction & redemption. The coda is more than curious, it’s an adrenaline rush, a noir dance of the impossible, delivered straight-up in a splintered glass.”—Linda D. Addison, award-winning author of “How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend” and HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Knauf’s poetry is cinematic, creating vast landscapes and scenes, on bridges, between land and sky. The multitude of characters create a rich, nonlinear story that mimics our memories, and our moments, and intertwines various worlds and moods, from all-consuming love, loneliness, superheroes, mythology, texting, technology, and Dante. Knauf is both direct and strangely surreal.”-Joanna C. Valente, author of Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, and the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault

Creator of the YouTube channel and persona—Vernaculis—Justin Little has brought his acerbic wit and engaging storytelling to print. His collection of journalism, literary and cultural criticism, and opinion pieces show why he has emerged as an original new voice of New Journalism for the modern indefinable age. Author, Autumn Christian, says it best in her intro:“Justin Little is like an electric knife of light that cuts smoothly through the darkness. A journalist who, like many who search for truth, has been jilted by those who have stakes in ideologies that regard them as irrelevant. A writer who has tasked himself with diving into the depths of inconsistencies, half-truths, snarling partisanship, and corporate distractions, to try to find the gleaming center of reality. Not only because he recognizes how vitally important finding the truth is to the continued survival of our civilization, but because he’s the kind of person who probably wakes up in the middle of the night with his brain burning, unable to rest until he’s found it.”

We've been hearing forever that Punk is Dead. And zombie stories are even deader. ZOMBIE PUNKS FUCK OFF is here to show that is bullshit. This antho is loaded with 14 stories of gnawing teeth, shredded entrails, rotting masses, punk as fuck fury, post-punk weirdness, and beautiful decay. Within these pages are a touring Christian Punk band run afoul of a horde of living dead, a group of zombie-infected anarcho-punks staging a revolution in London, Hank William's far-distant great-grandson struggling against the restraints of universal fame, and guitars that gently eat."This is my dream book, I can't believe it exists!"--Jeff Burk, author of Shatnerquake and The Very Ineffective Haunted House

After reading this book please bring this tome back to your local library. Seriously! This is an extremely important book and if you do not bring this book back, you risk letting out a chaos magick spell that will destroy the world, as beasts bring destruction to life itself. That includes bunnies. Do you really want to face killer bunnies, and don't think Charlize Theron will save you. She won¿t! So read this extremely important horror book and then bring it back, and also don¿t look at Internet porn at your local library, it¿s rude and attracts succubi!Sincerely,CLASH Books Librarian

"Diene's talent for the primal scene of horror is resplendent with his ability to offer sparse, violent prose that unexpectedly captures the ugliness, disgustingness, brutality of violence that makes us horror readers cringe at scenes by masters like Richard Matheson, Stephen King, or Clive Barker…He moves between dream/vision and reality to tell stories that meditate heavily on the changes wrought in different African nations by the forces of globalization and neoliberalism."-World Literature Today Fistulas There's a village that lies in the shade of a giant tree. Humanitarian Dr. Salio discovers that the children living there need assistance and to be studied, but is there any cure for when tradition and horror are one and the same?The Whores, The Dealer and The Diamond The most beautiful things are found in the darkest of places, just as hope is found in the darkest of moments. Sometimes darkness overcomes them all.Popobawa You can find everything in Zanzibar. It grows on the side of the road, shinning white baobabs, pineapples, nutmeg, and the essence of Chanel N°5. And demons.Black and Gold A mischievous spirit walks the beaches of Dakar at twilight. Sometimes for good, oftentimes not. Sometimes to protect his people, but sometimes protection is its own prison.

A love letter to horror films where poems are the paragraphs. Featuring hilarious and chilling persona poems about iconic horror films with accompanying art by Joel Amat Güell.TOCAlienAmerican PsychoA Nightmare on Elm StreetA Serbian FilmAt Midnight I¿ll Take Your Soul AuditionBlaculaThe BeyondThe BirdsThe Blair Witch ProjectThe BlobCabin In The WoodsCannibal HolocaustCarrieChild¿s PlayDawn of the DeadDemon KnightThe DescentEvil DeadEvent HorizonThe ExorcistHalloweenHellraiserHostelHouse of 1000 CorpsesITIt FollowsKrampusFriday The 13thI Spit on Your GraveJawsLast House on the LeftLet The Right One InThe Loved OnesManiac CopMiseryThe MistNight of the Living DeadThe OmenPiranha 3DPoultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead PsychoPumpkinheadThe RingRosemary¿s BabySawScannersScreamShaun of the DeadThe ShinningSinisterSpringStepfatherSuspiriaTeethTexas Chainsaw MassacreThe ThingTokyo Gore PoliceTuskV/H/SVideodrome The Wicker ManThe VVITCHZombieland

Archetypes are real. Muses are real. Writers are the channels of these spirits & if that sounds like witchcraft thats because it is. These stories gave me chills. Sylvia Plath & Lana Del Rey course through the veins of these dark, sexy, mind-bending, fantastical, romantic, & haunting tales. Authors from different genres came together in their love & passion for these muses. The Blacklist: Kathryn Louise Crazy Mary: Patricia Grisafi Pipedreams: Devora Gray And All the World Drops Dead: Max Booth III Without Him (and Him, and Him) There is No Me: Laura Diaz de Arce Going About 99: Christine Stoddard The Lazarus Wife: Tiffany Morris Stag Loop: Brendan Vidito SP World: Lorraine Schein A Ghost of My Own Making: Ashley Inguanta Loose Ends: A Movie: Tiffany Scandal Girls in the Garden of Holy Suffering: Lisa Marie Basile The Gods in the Blood: Gabino Iglesias The Land of Other: Farah Rose Smith Sad Girl: Monique Quintana Corinne: JC Drake Sphinx Tears: Cara DiGirolamo Rituals of Gorgons: Larissa Glasser The Wife: Victoria Dalpe Dayglo Reflection: Manuel Chavarria Catmans Heart: Laura Lee Bahr Panic Bird: Selene MacLeod Because of Their Different Deaths: Stephanie Wytovich

Poems of the Erotic, the Romantic, the Violent, and the Grotesque."Wrath James White's poems are red and wet love songs to a pillory, set to the beat of a flogging whip-the kind of sweet nothings Barker's Cenobites would whisper. If You Died Tomorrow I Would Eat Your Corpse is full of blood and sex and viscera. There are no safe words here."-Bracken MacLeod, author of 13 Views of The Suicide Woods & the Bram Stoker Award nominated novel, Stranded"An exquisite collection exploring the lubricious carnality of love, lust, and the nightmarish pleasure of being human."-Jessica McHugh, author of The Train Derails in Boston"Wrath James White conjures up a collection of hardcore horror love poems. They are raw, real, and wrong in all the right ways. This is Gothic Romanticism on steroids. -Christoph Paul, author of Horror Film Poems & At Least I Get You < In My Art"If Bataille had had an Instagram, if de Sade had met Clive Barker at a bus stop and gone back to his place, if you think art is not about making friends and Love is not about coming home alive, this is a book for you. At the bottom of all that blood, there's a tenderness."-Cooper Wilhelm, author of Dumbheart/Stupidface

"Like Lloyd Kaufman and Sam Raimi's mutant offspring."-Wil Wheaton "Reminiscent of a modern William Faulkner."-Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger