Attic Clowns
10 best books like Attic Clowns (Jeremy C. Shipp): American Neolithic, Pedal, American Gangbang: A Love Story, Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, 13 Drops of Blood, Dark Passage, Shock Totem 1: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, Funereal, Under the Harrow
| Author | Terence Hawkins |
| ISBN | 1936196344 |
In a starred Kirkus review, American Neolithic was called "a towering work of speculative fiction that will have readers rethinking what it means to be human."
America is a Police State Lite. Drones patrol the skies. The Patriot Amendments have gutted civil liberties. The Homeland Police...
| Author | Chelsea Rooney |
| ISBN | 1927575567 |
“Chelsea Rooney has written a novel that is simultaneously lacerating and deeply empathetic. It confronts difficult material in a frank and unflinching manner, yet remains grounded in an abiding authorial intelligence. Pedal marks the debut of a hugely promising writer.”
–Steven...
| Author | Sam Benjamin |
| ISBN | 1451627785 |
A thoughtful, hilarious, and compulsively readable memoir by an Ivy League graduate-turned-pornographer who sets out to bring sophistication and equality to sexual cinema—only to find that he can’t change porn, but porn can certainly change him.American Gangbang heralds the arrival...
| Author | Bradley Sands |
| ISBN | 1936383152 |
Bizarro humorist Bradley Sands returns with one of the strangest, most hilarious collections of the year.In Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, the pope gets sued, a headless man falls in love with a bowl of rice, and architects dismantle the earth. A war breaks out over greeting cards. A suicidal amputee tries...
13 Drops Of Blood is the first collection from one of the more exciting new voices in horror, James Roy Daley. A man of many disciplines (novelist, editor, musician), this book features tales which run the gamut of style and subject; in other words, the stories are as eclectic as their author. What does...
Tyson Barrett's dreams want him dead.
An illicit drug trial promises to cure the crippling nightmares that have kept Tyson awake for months, nightmares rooted in the terrible abuse he suffered as a child. Exhausted and near collapse, he jumps at the chance to get his life back.
But...
| Author | K. Allen Wood |
| ISBN | 1448621747 |
If you are anything like me you have a “to read” pile. If you have a digital collection, it grows, expands, and has a life seemingly out of control. Often what you purchase and want to read is pushed back, while those you have to read are drawn to the forefront. Then your list is inundated with all the interesting...
| Author | Patrick Somerville |
| ISBN | 0982580819 |
In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the “The Machine of Understanding Other People,” the story of a Chicago man who is bequeathed a supernatural helmet that allows him to experience the inner...
| Author | Giacomo Lee |
| ISBN | 9881219817 |
Soobin Shin is an aspiring young woman in a near-future version of Seoul. Ever since her college graduation, she has struggled to escape from her dead-end job in a doughnut chain. Her twin sister Hyewon is one of Korea’s most recognizable models, but Soobin just can’t seem to find her lucky break…...
| Author | Mark Dunn |
| ISBN | 1596923377 |
What if Charles Dickens had written a contemporary thriller? In "Under the Harrow," a group of Victorians live a semi-idyllic and unwitting, anachronistic existence, aided only by minimal trade-related contact with the supposedly plague-ridden Outland. They are products of an experiment that...
| Author | Gilbert Hernández |
| ISBN | 1560978333 |
Gilbert Hernandez's first original graphic novel from Fantagraphics follows on the heels of his acclaimed graphic novel, Sloth, from DC's Vertigo Comics in 2006. Chance in Hell tells the story about a little orphan girl who lives in the slum of slums. Nobody knows who she is or where she's from, but her...
| Author | D. Harlan Wilson |
| ISBN | 0982628129 |
D. Harlan Wilson returns with another ferociously mindbending collection of short fiction. Masked in absurdity, these stories reveal the horrifying and hilarious faces of everyday life. Wilson tells of egg raids, hog rippers, monk spitters, fathers who take their children to pet stores to buy them...
| Author | Daniel Falatko |
| ISBN | 1939987369 |
Charles and Sarah are a typical New York creative class couple -- he's in finance, she works at a hipster small press, yet both are indie-rock East Village veterans who aren't above snorting a little heroin on the weekends. But when they decide to take the logical next step and buy a condo in one of the glass-and-steel...
The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong
The Pongs are an American immigrant family that has seen it all. They helped build the transcontinental railroads of the Victorian Age. They were mistakenly interned with Japanese-Americans during World War II. They may even have co-invented the landmark video game that bears the family's last name....
| Author | Jim Munroe |
| ISBN | 1568582080 |
1) "'Thanks for the beer, asshole,' I said as I turned away.
A few steps from the door there was the familiar music of cheap bar glass smashing against... what was that? I turned around. Ah. Fuckwad had thrown his glass into the display of expensive liquor bottles. His back was to me, and his arms were...
| Author | W.G. Marshall |
| ISBN | 1597803944 |
Enormity is the strange tale of an American working in Korea, a lonely young man named Manny Lopes, who is not only physically small (in his own words, he's a “Creole shrimp”), but his work, his failed marriage, his race, all conspire to make him feel puny and insignificant-the proverbial ninety-eight-pound...
| Author | Andersen Prunty |
| ISBN | 1936383098 |
A slag is what survivors are calling the slug-like maggots raining from the sky, burrowing inside people, and hollowing out their flesh and their sanity. Slag Attack features four visceral, noir stories about the living, crawling apocalypse. The Devastated Insides of Hollow City - Hack detective...
The Algae- This is my second favorite in the collection but not by much. This one and Clockwork were my favorites and I had a hard time deciding which one I enjoyed more. This story was all over the place in the essence that it had many strong plot points it could’ve worked from. I actually would’ve paid...
Zombie! Zombie! Brain Bang!
| Author | Nicholas Day |
| ISBN | 1480214841 |
WHAT IF... zombies were the worst customers to ever enter a fast food restaurant? WHAT IF... the only thing saving you from a zombie horde is a suit of cute little babies? WHAT IF... you traveled through time to see a great pair of tits but ended up kicking off the zombie apocalypse? WHAT IF... all those dead...
| Author | Kevin Strange |
| ISBN | 0615613748 |
What if Joseph wasn't the first man to be cuckolded by God? What if there was a cult of adulterated men who would do anything to kill him for fucking their wives into useless shells of nymphoid lust? What if a woman possessed was so utterly tormented, that the only way to save her soul was to perform a Sexorcism?...
The thing that impressed me most about this anthology was the art at the end. It was brilliant! I should find more of Alissa Rindels and Jose Manuel Portillo Barientos' work.
At first I tried to take notes on every story but I just forgot after awhile. So only general impressions. Creepy is the...
Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, America's Maverick Publisher and His Battle against Censorship
| Author | Michael Rosenthal |
| ISBN | 1628726504 |
An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from the constraints of Puritanism. As the head of Grove Press, he single-handedly broke down the laws against obscenity, changing forever the nature of writing and publishing...
