This tome features the best of Madness Heart Press. Fourteen novelette-sized stories from fourteen of our most prolific and award-winning authors. For a decade, Madness Heart Press has been on the forefront of transgressive literature, doing its utmost to champion Extreme Horror legends like Edward Lee and Christine Morgan, while at the same time lifting up newer authors like Judith Sonnet and Douglas Ford. This collection brings together wildly different tales by wildly different authors, ranging from bizarro genital swapping from Edward Lee to the non-fiction rage of Susan Snyder. The brutal body horror of John Baltisberger and the wild wordplay of Robert Guffey.
This is Madness Heart Press planting its flag in the ground of your bookshelf and saying Here We Are.
But at its heart, this book is all about introductions, introducing you to MHP and its authors. I've placed the stories in the order in which those authors joined the Madness Heart family, so you can see our evolution. And, at the back of this book, you'll find a list of each author and every book we've published by or with them. So, dive in, devour, and allow us to in turn devour you.
Table of Contents: "Congratulations on Your Hatred" by Charles R. Bernard "You Can't Get Herpes from Hate" by Susan Snyder "Babble" by Douglas Ford "Still Life with Vibrator" by Gina Ranalli "The Hillels Have Eyes" by John Baltisberger "Failure" by Jay Wilburn "Damned Lazy" by Christine Morgan "Graven Image" by Maxwell Bauman "The Bounce House" by Edward Lee "Yentl Goes Mental" by Jeff Oliver "Had He Tongue to Speak" by Michael Allen Rose "Like Thunder" by Nate Southard "The Pterodactyl" by Robert Guffey "Believe in Ghosts" by Judith Sonnet
