PAST PRAISE FOR RICHARD THOMAS

“A dark, existential thriller of unexpected twists, featuring a drowning man determined to pull the rest of the world under with him. A stunning and vital piece of work.”

—Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting and Filth

“Transubstantiate is an intricately woven dystopian thriller, with every thread pulled tight. This is a solid debut from Richard Thomas.”

—Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist’s Handbook and Dermaphoria

“This novel is so hard-hitting it should come with its own ice pack. Richard Thomas is the wild child of Raymond Chandler and Chuck Palahniuk, a neo-noirist who brings to life a gritty, shadow-soaked, bullet-pocked Chicago as the stage for this compulsively readable crime drama.”

—Benjamin Percy, author of The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding

“Thomas builds his universe and its population with terse prose and dynamic, often horrifyingly visceral imagery that unspools with grand weirdness and intensity. Then he rips that universe apart, brick by bloody brick. Disintegration is provocative. It’s also damned fine noir.”

—Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and The Croning

“A sodden, stumbling anti-hero in a noir so dark it makes much of the rest of the genre seem like Disney movies by comparison. Gritty, obsessive, and compulsively readable.”

—Brian Evenson, author of Immobility and Windeye

“Disintegration is gritty neo-noir, a psycho-sexual descent into an unhinged psyche and an underworld Chicago that could very well stand in for one of the rings of Dante’s Hell. Richard Thomas’s depraved-doomed-philosopher hitman is your guide. I suggest you do as he says and follow him, if you know what’s good for you.”

—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Little Sleep

“In sharp, icy prose that cuts like a glacial wind, Richard Thomas’s dark Chicago tale keeps us absolutely riveted to the very end.”

—Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knock-emstiff

PAST PRAISE FOR NIK KORPON

“Nik Korpon will tear your heart out and leave you howling in the wilderness, and I mean that in the best possible way.”

—Benjamin Whitmer, author of Cry Father and Pike

“Nik Korpon’s Old Ghosts is about old friends and older dreams getting in the way of your present, and then totally kicking the shit out of your future. Plus rebar. If there’s such a thing as neo-noir, this is it. Moody, smart, sexy, and tension-filled, Old Ghosts is a whip crack of a crime novella.”

—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Little Sleep

PAST PRAISE FOR CALEB J. ROSS

“Caleb J. Ross writes fearlessly, never shying away from the wild, insane places where his fertile imagination leads him.”

—Joey Goebel, author of Torture the Artist and Anomalies

“[Caleb’s] stories change you, and not just a little bit. Try to forget them, tell yourself they’re not true, but it’s no use. Whether you want them to or not, they’re going with you.”

—Stephen Graham Jones, author of Not for Nothing and After the People Lights Have Gone Off

PAST PRAISE FOR AXEL TAIARI

“Axel Taiari packs a whole world into a short story, never making us feel left out or that we need to know more, doing the perfect job a writer should.”

—Cultured Vultures

“Axel Taiari writes like a monster. He’s the writer we have nightmares about, the kind that creeps under our skin and rewrites the way we see and feel the world.”

—Edward J. Rathke, author of Noir: A Love Story