HorrorFind was awesome!
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See video from Ronald Damien Malfi's reading.

Our first children's book,
Luna Maris, is now available.

However y ou can only get it through our web site or at Ego Likeness shows.

We all have questions...even the moon.

On his night off, the moon decides to journey to the earth in search of the answer to a burning question: What is the ocean for?

View a trailer for the book

nthposition magazine is running an hilarious excerpt of Lemur in this month's issue.

Over at Unlikely Stories they've got a wild interview with Tom Bradley about Lemur and bizarro.

And the hardcover is now available through Amazon.com and other online stores!

Donna Lynch and Steven Archer will be touring for their band Ego Likeness during April. Check them out and pick up copies of Ladies & Other Vicious Creatures and Luna Maris while you're there!

APRIL 4th Baltimore, MD @ ASCENSION
APRIL 5th Pittsburgh, PA @ PEGASUS
APRIL 6th Decatur, IL @ WAKE THE DEAD CAFE
APRIL 7th Wichita, KS @ Disco Macbre@ KIRBY'S BEER STORE
APRIL 8th Tulsa, OK @ THE MARQUEE
APRIL 9th Denver, CO @ QUIXOTE’S TRUE BLUE
APRIL 12th Sacramento, CA @ THE FIRE ESCAPE BAR AND GRILL
APRIL 13th Portland, OR @ THE FEZ BALLROOM
APRIL 14th Seattle, WA @ EL CORAZON
APRIL 17th Los Angeles, CA @ THE KNITTING FACTORY
APRIL 18th Tempe, AZ @ THE SETS
APRIL 19th San Diego, CA @ THE HOT MONKEY LOVE CAFE
APRIL 23rd San Antonio, TX @ ATOMIX
APRIL 24th Dallas, TX @ THE CHURCH
APRIL 25h Austin, TX @ ELYSIUM
APRIL 27th Nashville, TN @ +Salvation+ @ CODE BLUE/ELEVATION
APRIL 28th St. Louis, MO @ Rapture @ DANTE'S
APRIL 30th Atlanta, GA @ THE MASQUERADE
MAY 1st Gainesville, FL @ BACKSTAGE LOUNGE
MAY 2nd Raleigh, NC @ VOLUME II TAVERN
MAY 3rd Charlottesville, VA @ The Dawning@ OUTBACK LODGE
MAY 4th NYC @ THE KNITTING FACTORY

The new issue of The Dream People contains lots of bizarro goodness including fiction by Cameron Pierce, reviews of Vacation and Discouraging at Best and an interview with Jase Daniels & Forrest Armstrong.

Harold Jaffe will be in Paris during April and May to support the release of the French translation of 15 Serial Killers by Editions Cambourakis. He will be reading and giving presentations at the University of Orleans, the University of Paris, and various bookstores in and around Paris.

Your book is broken into two sections titled New England & New York and Montana. How does setting impact your writing?

I am a deeply nostalgic person, and a romantic. Places I’ve been are cast in an eerie light in my memory, and I use those lit landscapes for my fiction.

An idea, or an inkling of an idea (a feeling)—usually some kind of misread or illogic—tends to be the jumping point for most of my fiction; where can that idea live is invariably the next question: how can that be? Setting helps give shape to idea.

The places in Worse Than Myself are vivid parts of my internal landscape. Often, I write about those places because that’s the only way for me to get to them.

The pacing in your book is akin to the classical, slow-building terror of older horror fiction. How do you see it fitting into the landscape of modern horror?

Classical isn’t the word that comes to mind when I think of my own work, but I think you’re right. Even the stories of mine that push at the rules of English grammar or subvert short story conventions, either for the sake of pacing and tone or for honesty, all follow—or at least admire—traditional forms in horror fiction.

Modern horror fiction is not far removed from its predecessors and I can’t think of a lot of writers who are doing anything I consider really innovative within the genre. In spite of the slow, often quiet build of my stories, there is much about them that is at least modern, in no small part because I draw on contemporary literature outside the genre, in particular a branch of poetry that is called by some experimental, by some Language, and by those who don’t understand this poetic, it’s called “difficult.” [For the curious, a number of my poems are available online, in issues of word for/word, Sawbuck, and Open Letters.]

The best answer to your question is this: I don’t know how my fiction fits in. As I imagine many authors do, I feel as if I write on the outskirts of the genre—I draw on different languages, different weirds. That’s all accident, all inclination. With greater intention, I return again and again to the structures on which great horror fiction is built.

What made you to begin writing?

What made me write? A few events did certainly pushed me from being a student who found writing to be just about as agonizing as every other subject in school, to being a student who wrote for pleasure, at the expense of other schoolwork, chores, and sleep.

I initially had a desire to tell stories that would amuse my classmates—those early efforts, during sixth and seventh grade, represent my most commercial period. After the summer between seventh and eighth grade, I began to experiment formally, and fell in love with language, and I realized that story wasn’t just plot. That became why I wrote. Soon after, my classmates’ interest in my writing waned.

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