Bøker av Nicholas Day

"The brilliance of it all is breathtaking ... I have never read its equal."-Cemetery Dance, Sadie Hartmann"... a symphony of violence rendered with a poet's eloquent finesse and a madman's ecstasy..."-InkHeist, Shane Douglas Keene"The perfect blend of character, voice and setting ... is cause for celebration."-This Is Horror, Thomas Joyce"I loved it, but damned if I didn't need a drink afterwards."-Sci-Fi & Scary, Lilyn George"... visceral, unapologetic, and unforgettable ..."-Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil's Dreamland"The best surrealism mythologizes our dreams and nightmares without wandering too far afield of the emotional and physical core of what makes us human. Grind Your Bones To Dust accomplishes this feat. Built on vengeance, it is a burly, wild, and terrifying narrative spoken in clear, unflinching poetry. There's a great deal of Cormack McCarthy in the book, in the way it situates itself in America. What is hate? Where does it come from? And hiding passionately beneath these two questions, the beating, wounded heart of a third: Can we ever escape?"-Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and ConvulsiveGrind Your Bones To Dust is a journey into Hell that is at once uncomfortably familiar, yet unlike anything you've ever encountered before: a surveyor finds himself pursued by flesh-eating donkeys in the furthest reaches of Oregon's desert; a mass-murderer leaves the sanctity of his mountain home to pursue a long-lost love; his guide is an otherworldly raven possessed by a 19th-century American humorist; in nearby Klamath Falls, two estranged childhood friends set off to find a missing father with the help of two aging cowboys; and, a prisoner in her own home sees a vision of death and knows there is no escape.

This is a story about love and death and spontaneous human combustion. This is a story about a man with a fire inside him.". . . burrowed into my heart . . . and took shape as a beautiful monster." -Michelle Garza, coauthor of Mayan Blue, Those Who Follow and Kingdom of Teeth "Beautiful, sad, on fire." -Laura Lee Bahr, author of Haunt, Angel Meat, and Long-form Religious Porn

OCTOBER ANIMALS follows four teenage friends-Lizzie Bat, Owl, Spider, and Kat-who live in the riverside city of October, Illinois. Lizzie Bat, still grieving the loss of her father and at odds with her mother, plans to rob the town's Halloween store the night of October 31st, and intends to use the money to escape to a new life. And, her friends are all too eager to help. Owl, best friend and confidant. If Lizzie Bat's heart aches for her father, then Owl's heart aches for Lizzie Bat. Spider, brave and loyal, had his secrets, and he kept them. Kat, adored, she was the newest member of the group and the object of Lizzie Bat's affections. But their scheme threatens to tear the friends apart as they find themselves in the path of supernatural forces and monstrous local legends: haunted houses; doppelgängers; grave robbing; ghosts and vampires; monsters in the river and, even worse, monsters in the home. October is a town that loves Halloween but no one realizes that their whole world is about to become Halloween forever.

"This is a story about love and death and spontaneous human combustion. This is a story about a man with a fire inside him."Nicholas Day is the author of GRIND YOUR BONES TO DUST, NECROSAURUS REX, and OCTOBER ANIMALS. His short fiction is frequently anthologized. He co-owns Rooster Republic Press with Don Noble, where they acquire and produce award-winning horror fiction and poetry.Currently, he resides in Northern Illinois with his family, and he is always working on new material. You can find more information about him and his work at nicholasdayonline.com