rick claypool writes absurdist horror
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“Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War is unlike anything I’ve ever read, exuding a rare confidence I did not know still existed. Rick Claypool has single-handedly introduced a combo-breaker of a novel that’s absolutely going to inspire the next generation of weird writers. I know it. Mark my words. Please.”
-Mike Kleine, author of Third World Magicks “Rick Claypool’s latest is a sort of mucosal fable. Dark, gloopy and hilarious, imagine 80s Verhoeven body horror meets the knife-sharp staccato prose of James Ellroy, with a dash of Beckett for absurd measure. A very funny and very weird book.” -Oliver Zarandi, author of Soft Fruit In The Sun |
"Nonstop insanity with a charming Bizarro family at its core. Claypool gets you emotionally invested in a guy that pukes knives and possibly the most disgusting baby ever. It's goop with heart."
-Lor Gislason, author of Inside Out “Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War made me feel like a demented child listening to a disturbed uncle from outer space tell me bedtime stories intended to either keep me awake forever or convert me into an acolyte of his specific, absurd, and horrifically cartoonified madness. Heck of a book. I read it and survived.” -Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands “Abrasive, abrupt, and absurd, Claypool has crafted a well-oiled machine designed to sow mayhem and misanthropy throughout our diseased cosmos.” - Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold |
