PUBLICATION INFORMATION

12 June 2009 • Shroud Publishing
116 pages • Trade Paperback • 6" x 9"
$7.99 • ISBN 978-0981989426

PRESS KIT FILES

Press Release • Excerpt • Contents

CONTACT

Publisher: Timothy Deal
Author: D. Harlan Wilson
Illustrator: Danny Evarts

COVER

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

Life in Dreamfield, Indiana, is a daily harangue of pigs, cornfields, pigs, fast food joints, pigs, Dollar Stores, motorcycles, pigs, and good old-fashioned Amerikan redneckery. The decidedly estranged yet complacent occupants of this proverbial smalltown go about their business like geriatrics in a casino ... until their business is interrupted by a sinister gang of outsiders. Angry, slick-talking, and ultraviolent to the core, Samson Thataway and the Fuming Garcias commit art-for-art’s-sake in the form of hideous, unmotivated serial killings. When an unsuspecting everyman’s family is murdered by the throng, it is up to Felix Soandso to avenge their deaths and return Dreamfield to its natural state of absurdity.

PRAISE

"A bludgeoning celluloid rush of language and ideas served from an action-painter's bucket of fluorescent spatter, Peckinpah is an incendiary gem and very probably the most extraordinary new novel you will read this year." Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"D. Harlan Wilson's latest romp of a book, Peckinpah: An Ultravoilent Romance, proves that Wilson is either a genius or a madman, in all likelihood a crazed hybrid of both. A book that will delight Wilson's fans and mortally shock the unintiated." Eric Miles Williamson, author of Welcome to Oakland and East Bay Grease

"Wilson's surreal view of a midwestern town called Dreamfield features the author's trademark prose which goes from violent to hysterical to bizarre—sometimes within the same sentence ... all the while leaving behind witty commentary and observances on the rural lifestyle." Horror Fiction Review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

D. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, literary critic, screenwriter, and associate professor of English at Wright State University-Lake Campus. Hundreds of his stories and essays have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies throughout the world in several languages, and he is the editor-in-chief of The Dream People, a journal of irreal texts. His first novel, Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaqudemia, received the Wonderland Book Award for best novel of 2007, and his latest novel, Peckinpah: An Ultraviolent Romance, has been long-listed for the Bram Stoker Award. Additionally, Wilson's short film The Cocktail Party, directed by Brandon Duncan, won multiple awards in 2007 at film festivals and conferences. For more information, visit www.dharlanwilson.com or contact Wilson's publicist Stanley Ashenbach.