Brian Evenson is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He is also the winner of the International Horror Guild Award and the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel, and his work has been named in Time Out New York's top books.
Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative FictionFinalist for the
2019 Big Other Book Award for FictionNew York Times, "Best Horror
Fiction"Washington Post, " Best Horror Fiction of the Year"NPR,
"Best Books of 2019"Entropy, "Best of 2019""These stories are
carefully calibrated exercises in ambiguity in which Evenson
(Windeye) leaves it unclear how much of the off-kilterness exists
outside of the deep-seated pathologies that motivate his
characters." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Evenson's little
nightmares are deftly crafted, stylistically daring, and
surprisingly emotional." --Kirkus Reviews "Missing persons,
paranoia and psychosis . . . the kind of writer who leads you into
the labyrinth, then abandons you there. It's hard to believe a guy
can be so frightening, so consistently." --The New York Times
"Evenson is one of our best living writers--regardless of genre . .
. Song is a skillfully crafted, cleverly executed, and extremely
entertaining collection." --NPR "Evenson renders the world as a
place of infinite and paralyzing delusion. . . . In an Evenson
story, a house isn't inescapable because of its lack of doors and
windows; it's inescapable because it was built by an impressionable
mind." --Los Angeles Review of Books "To read Evenson is to be
privy to a precise, vivid, brilliant unpicking of the everyday--and
its others." --China Mi�ville "You've heard of 'postmodern'
stories--well, Evenson's stories are post-everything. They are
post-human, post-reason, post-apocalyptic. . . . in an Evenson
story, there are two horrible things that can happen to you. You
can either fail to survive, or survive." --The New York Times "[A]
collection of short stories that deal with art, paranoia and the
dark urges that haunt even the most normal people." --Los Angeles
Times "Brian Evenson is one of my favorite living horror writers,
and this collection is him at his eerie and disquieting best."
--Carmen Maria Machado "Evenson . . . lures readers into each
twisted tale by starting not at the beginning, but . . . somewhere
else, creating a sense of disorientation and unease. As each tale
unspools and each surreal world clarifies into a malformed sort of
logic, the creeps set firmly in. . . . Readers of literary horror
will not want to miss this one." --Library Journal "Evenson's
uncanny but accessible fiction can remind you of Edgar Allan Poe or
'The Twilight Zone' . . . an inspired, thoroughly entertaining
book." --Star Tribune "I'm not convinced Brian Evenson is entirely
human. His literary horror fiction is just too good, too immersive,
and too alien for a mere mortal. This book has everything one comes
to expect from Evenson--brief glimpses of dark worlds where no one
is completely sure where they are, who they are, or what is real."
--The A. V. Club "Evenson at his most intense and discomfiting . .
. he makes our skin rise and crawl with the intimation that all,
although outwardly normal, is certainly not. Why else are we paying
attention so closely?" --Los Angeles Review of Books "Evenson is
our most impressive explorer of the cracks in things that let in
not the light, as Leonard Cohen would have it, but fever, chaos,
and darkness." --Vulture "Song puts Evenson's staggering
ventriloquism on display, incorporating elements of science
fiction, horror, fantasy, translation, poetry, and myth, often
within a single story." --Epiphany "[Evenson's] latest collection
offers readers a fantastic overview of his strengths as a writer,
from tales of bizarre obsessions to forays into nightmarish bodies
and worlds." --Vol. 1 Brooklyn "Evenson goes to great lengths to
undermine, to deterritorialize, to estrange us from our linguistic
and ontological habitats. He breaks the iron grip of realism and
peels back the monstrous underbelly of life."-- Black Warrior
Review "These are stories to tell in the dark for adults, ones that
creep up your spine in the middle of the night, urging you to turn
the light on again just one more time, lest something be watching
you." --The Michigan Daily "Evenson's latest collection, Song for
the Unraveling of the World, is more unassailable proof of why this
consummate writers' writer deserves a much larger readership to
scare senseless." --Brazos Bookstore "Mind-blowing, soul-wrecking
literature of the highest order, the result of plain old damn good
storytelling by an artist at the pinnacle of his career." --Ink
Heist "Evenson understands both the precision of language and the
gut-level appeal of the grindhouse, and the best of his work skates
along the border between the two, combining aspects of both. . . .
[A] perfect introduction to Evenson's work for those who are
looking to experience it for the first time." --Tor "In Song for
the Unraveling of the World, Brian Evenson explores what it's like
to be unsettled in one's own home and skin. . . . Evenson leaves
readers feeling most disturbed and empathetic." --The Arkansas
International "Brian Evenson's bold and unique short
fictions--equal parts surrealism, ontology, and dread--consistently
lead the reader to truly shocking discoveries that are as
disturbing as they are oddly beautiful. Song for the Unraveling of
the World is a map of our paranoia- and anxiety-riddled,
existentially challenged, pre-apocalyptic times." --Paul Tremblay
"Terrifying, full of paranoia and delusion and at the same time
haunting and beautiful." --The Bibliophile Librarian "[Evenson's
stories] take us into intriguing if uncomfortable spaces where
we've never been. Evenson's stories can't quite be said to occupy
the genres that they play with, but genres occupy the stories, and
he ties them into elegant little knots." --Locus "Evenson recalls
Poe, as he finds the most frightening way to open another box of
horrors." --Brooklyn Rail "Song for the Unraveling of the World is
a truly and deeply amazing collection of horror that has every
right to be shelved in the same section of the bookstore as Clive
Barker and David Foster Wallace, Ursula Leguin and Louise Erdrich.
He is that freaking good." --Postcards from a Dying World "Evenson
walks the literary vs genre tightrope, uses minimalist prose to
great effect, and has a sharp eye for application of conventions."
--Signal Horizon Praise for Brian Evenson
"Some of the stories here evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some
Roald Dahl, and one, a demonic teddy-bear chiller called
'BearHeart(TM), ' even Stephen King, but Evenson's deadpan style
always estranges them a bit from their models: He tells his odd
tales oddly, as if his mouth were dry and the words won't come out
right." --New York Times Sunday Book Review
"Evenson's fiction is equal parts obsessive, experimental, and
violent. It can be soul-shaking." --New Yorker
"Evenson's stories, small masterworks of literary horror, are
elegantly tense. They operate in psychological territory, never
relying on grossness or slasher silliness to convey their
scariness. . . . For the Stephen King fan in the house: an author
as capable, if a touch less prolific." --Kirkus Reviews
"Admirers of Evenson (Windeye; Altmann's Tongue) applaud the edge
he maintains between the unexplained and the intimate. This latest
collection continues to explore that line, and for how much is left
obscured, an eerie emotional echo remains. . . . Evenson's journey
along the boundaries of short fiction make for an eye-opening
dissection of the form." --Publishers Weekly
"You never realize how deep his fiction has wormed its way into
your brain until hours, days, even weeks later, when you're lying
in the dark and Evenson's images come flooding back, unbidden. A
Collapse of Horses will stay with you for a long time . . . whether
you want it to or not." --Chicago Review of Books
"While each piece in A Collapse of Horses stands alone as a tale
that combines 'literary' and 'horror' elements in novel ways that
blur genre distinctions, the collection intensifies as recurring
motifs flow through the various narratives, settings, and fictional
psyches: bodily and mental disintegration, the ambiguities of human
physicality and consciousness, and the permeable borders between
self and other." --Los Angeles Review of Books
"A Collapse of Horses is a perennially dusty, dark, haunted house
of atmospheric dilemmas whose plots continually reverse a reader's
expectations." --The Collagist
"Evenson is interested in philosophy and semiotics, the
impossibility of ever truly knowing or naming the world, and our
fundamental, helpless dependence on what our senses tell us. . . .
. [His stories] are a wonderful feat of the uncanny." --Los Angeles
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