MIGHT UNCLEAN a collection by Cody Goodfellow, Gemma Files, Mort Castle & Gary A. Braunbeck. Napersville, IL; Dark Arts Press; 2009. 1st edition trade paperback. Dark Arts Books’ fifth title was unvelied at the Bram Stoker Convention Weekend in Burbank, California in June 2009! Unwell… Cody Goodfellow wants to introduce you to a goddess who offers unsurpassed pleasure – at an unspeakable price. Unwise… Gemma Files wants you to see what happens when you look too closely into places and things better left unknown. Unquiet… Mort Castle wants to play some unfamiliar music for you… the tunes of the lost and the damned. Undone… Gary A. Braunbeck wants to take you to the edge of madness and perversity… and push you over. From the agony of unrelenting grief to the desperation of spontaneously-combusting convicts, from the grim battle between a human monster and his otherworldy competition to the salacious secret life of Ro-Man(!). All this and more in strange worlds vividly painted by four supremely talented authors – worlds that are twisted, cruel and mighty unclean. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS: CODY GOODFELLOW: Venus of Santa Cruz, The Weak Sisters Bust Out, The Wet Nurse, Love To Give. GEMMA FILES: Ring of Fire, Crossing The River, The Speed of Pain. MORT CASTLE: Moon on the Water, I Am Your Need, Bird’s Dead, Dreaming Robot Monster, Music on Michigan Avenue. GARY A. BRAUNBECK: Merge Right, As It Is, Bargain, War Is Over. WHAT THE CRITICS SAID: Yet another 4-author collection from the always reliable Dark Arts Books, MIGHTY UNCLEAN is perhaps the most diverse one in their catalog (which can be good or bad, depending on just how strange you like your horror). -Horror Fiction Review, January 2010. Explicit, almost hallucinogenic … lyrical…existentially terrifying…The work of each author in Mighty Unclean is a unique literary world unto itself. -Rue Morgue, October 2009. Fine. |