They say he started Splatterpunk. They say he's a legend in the own lifetime.
John Shirley is back. So be scared, very scared...
From the author of the fabulous Wetbones, we now have Black Butterflies, a fabulous collection of "dark noir" split into two parts.
The first part contains eight stories set in "This World" or what you and I would call reality, and the second part contains eight stories set in "That World" which is a place of the surreal and supernatural. Shirley's realm...
Scared yet? You will be...
In "This World" we meet a middle-class white woman who turns a mugging by two black youngsters into her chance to pursue glory as a criminal; a cop who knows his partner is guilty of murdering his wife; two hustlers who throw a sadistic and drug-infested party at the expense of their bound and unwilling host; and two bike messengers whose fate is to join hundreds of other people in a freak accident so hideous it boggles the mind.
And, remember, that's in "This World." Almost all of the characters seem to find some kind of manic deliverance in the most outlandish and horrific of circumstances. But that's Shirley for you...
And just when you think it couldn't get any worse...buckle up, get ready and hold on tight!
In "That World" we creep down a tunnel into a child's escape from reality, witness more than one scene of surreal cannibalism in the service of sexual pleasure and/or artistic creation, and participate with horror and awe in a religious rite in the final days of the human species.
You'll never be the same again after Black Butterflies!
John Shirley writes like no other. Horror and violence are splashed across the page, but for some strange reason, the reader will find themselves chuckling here and there as well.
Yes, you'll laugh as you read the horrors within Black Butterflies. And that makes you wonder who's the sickest? You, my humble reader, or Shirley?
Original, intense, scary and unique.
Don't walk, run and buy your copy today.
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