The lovely people at Bad Moon Books sent me details of a new collection that they have coming out soon. I am very excited here is the blurb"BLOOD & GRISTLE is a collection of twenty screwed up stories paired with twenty exquisite illustrations. It’s about detachable children, and self worth, and hungry, hungry, garbage disposals. It’s about boxes that shape destiny and Magic Eightballs that don’t. It’s about drugs and devils and everlasting, gnashing teeth. It’s about a crack addicted cardiologist looking for love and a nasty basilisk with a taste for kindergarteners. It’s about life and death, sorrow and fear, madness, faith, and all o
f the squishy, complicated stuff in between. So brace yourself, unplug the goopy gray of your brain, and get ready…things are about to get very, very messy."Ok, well that sounds great to me on it's own. It's written by Michael Louis Calvillo and as icing on the cake (and I would buy it just for this, even if I didn't think the stories sounded good) those illustrations are by Daniele Serra who I have spoken about here before.
You can read a couple of the short stories here.
Finally, for the curious, one of those stories has been turned into a 10minute film which you can check out below.
Chekhov's Children ©2009 from Robert W. Filion on Vimeo.
Michael will be at World Horror late March and will be bringing some copies of the book.
7 comments:
That actually sounds like a really excellent book...I wouldn't mind getting my hands on that one.
I plan on grabbing one. I love Serra's art so that alone would sell me.
Sounds like my kinda thing. Any chance you'll be getting a review copy before then? Looks like this'll be one for the Con - sigh - and there was I thinking my book budget would be enough!
Matt - they are hoping to send me a review copy but whether it will arrive from the US before the con I don't know. Yup, I am having book budget issues too. ;)
It's certainly no worse than the typical Romero zombie story. I fear the sympathetic treatment of the dark side in all of us may send a few folks screaming into the night. Guess the rest of us will have to circle the caskets and...well...hunker in. ;-)
Jack indeed some twisted tales but rather delightful really.
o0o this sounds good! Thanks for the info..
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