Michael Cisco, Author . Prime $29.95 (252p) ISBN 978-1-894815-85-7
When the dead battle the dead, as they do in this extravagant dark fantasy novel, overkill is to be expected. Virtually every scene in Cisco's (The Divinity Student
) intensely surreal opus runs too long or bogs down in meandering details. The...
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Michael Cisco, Author . Prime $29.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-894815-67-3
San Veneficio, a place where illusion and reality, life and death, creation and decay all merge indistinguishably, provided the perfect backdrop for Cisco's debut Gothic fantasy, The Divinity Student
(1999). The surreal city is back in all its...
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Michael Cisco, Author . Prime $12.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-8095-7235-9
Cisco (The Tyrant
) ups the ante for provocative dark fantasy by giving this coming-of-age tale a subtle metaphysical edge. While still a boy, sensitive Nophtha realizes that he’s uncommonly empathetic and able to see the world from the...
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Michael Cisco, Chômu (Ingram, dist.), $17.50 trade paper (446p) ISBN 978-1-907681-06-6
The latest phantasmagorical offering from Cisco (The Narrator) is a fusion of dark fantasy, literary fiction, and existential horror that revolves around the eponymous character of the sewerman, an undead tramp in search of capital-L Love who can...
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Michael Cisco. Chômu (www.chomupress.com), $16.50 trade paper (340p) ISBN 978-1-907681-15-8
Phantasmagorist Cisco (The Tyrant) explores the concept of reincarnation in a chimerical story about a homeless man named deKlend—who may actually be institutionalized in a sanitarium—and his attempt to make a pilgrimage to the imaginary country of...
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Michael Cisco. Grimscribe, $20 trade paper (154p) ISBN 978-0-578-83688-1
Cisco (Unlanguage) speculates on the dangers of loneliness in this darkly glimmering collection of 10 horror shorts. There’s nothing in the way of a jump scare here; instead, each of Cisco’s pieces drip with a subversive spookiness, using the horror
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Harry O. Morris, Illustrator, Michael Cisco, Author Buzzcity Press $12.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-9652200-1-9
Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp immediacy of the present tense to lead the reader on a hallucinatory journey from humanity to inhuman transcendence. After a miraculous recovery from...
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Jay Tobias Lake, Author, Michael Cisco, Author, Ben Peek, Author . Night Shade/Ministry of Whimsy $27 (235p) ISBN 978-1-892389-82-4
Aguirre's relatively restrained fourth volume in his World Fantasy Award–winning series showcases 10 literate dark fantasy stories, which may be variously described as surreal, decadent, absurd or horrific. In perhaps the finest tale, Jay...
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