Bruce Boston

21 Tales science fiction, fantasy, horror mainstream, humor, & surreal "Like a double shot of old scotch - smooth, fiery, short, and creating the correct level of intoxication, it literally stopped all activity during a busy morning. Boston's range, economy, and precision, which have made him a celebrated poet, resonate in these 21 tales." -Don Webb, author of Building Strange Temples "Aptly named, Boston's Gallimaufry is a simmering pot of delicacies to be savored, cracked open, and the marrow sucked from every line. Boston's stories are exquisite, 'a brain-reel running unspliced' of realities 'experienced in some other life or plane of being.' Wonderful collection!" -Lee Murray, Bram Stoker Award Winner, author of Grotesque: Monster Stories "From award-winners like "Broken Portraiture" and "Curse of the Alien's Wife," this eclectic collection travels through a broad range of moods, styles and settings. It is hard to pin down to one classification, but a constant remains throughout. As you turn the pages you will be going somewhere, many somewheres, and it will be worth it. Truly a gallimaufry to savor." -Angela Yuriko Smith, author of Bitter Suites

Gallimaufry

"Reflect that science fiction owes its greatest unpaid debt to surrealism, for suspending our disbelief in an invented future works best when our critical faculties are distracted and engaged by images from the unconscious. Now comes science fiction poetry's greatest practitioner, Bruce Boston, to repay a part of this debt in Surrealities, which is at once an introduction to the uninitiated, a handbook for the journeyman seeking to gain mastery, and an intoxication to those of us who fancy ourselves connoisseurs of the strange." - Lee Ballentine, author of Dream Protocols "Boston utterly transcends convention, highlighting many aspects of human experience inaccessible through the use of more traditional methods. Reading these poems is like embarking upon a trek through 'the depths of dreams, ' the 'infrastructure' of the soul itself! I celebrate the release of this work, a collection to which I shall, no doubt, frequently return." - John Amen, author of At the Threshold of Alchemy "Here, the surreal beauty of a muscular mind, poems like evil flowers, cachinnating snow monkeys, blue-eyed chateaus, scarlet snails. Here, all the boats are drunk, all the architecture soft and hairy, all the nights lit by giraffe fire, butterfly blaze. Here, Bruce Boston - investigating an horizon first mapped by Celan and Eluard, Tanguy and Tanning - rummages through each tree's drawer, behind perception's door, to find disturbing but strangely familiar shapes for language, longing, and love." - Bryan D. Dietrich, author of Universal Monsters "At times furious in its assault on the senses. At times curious in its nonchalance. This vein of poetics suits Boston oh so well. Like when he takes flight from a straight narrative thread and employs his vocabulary to high and exigent purposes, as in 'The Lateral Eclipse of Bound Sunsets.' And when he makes the mystery melancholy, as in 'Stray Acquisitions.' A master class on the motive/emotive powers of language." - Robert Frazier, author of The Daily Chernobyl "I read this collection straight off and loved it. If you like your poetry with a strong taste of the weird, the unusual and over-the-edge bizarre, you have to read this book." - Alan Catlin, author of The Insomniac's Gift

Surrealities

"Reflect that science fiction owes its greatest unpaid debt to surrealism, for suspending our disbelief in an invented future works best when our critical faculties are distracted and engaged by images from the unconscious. Now comes science fiction poetry's greatest practitioner, Bruce Boston, to repay a part of this debt in Surrealities, which is at once an introduction to the uninitiated, a handbook for the journeyman seeking to gain masters and an intoxication for those of us who fancy ourselves connoisseurs of the strange." -- Lee Ballentine, author of Dream Protocols "In his latest collection, Boston plumbs a surrealistic orientation, expressing 'the wonders and horrors of existence' as well as imaginative visions 'enhanced by sensations visceral and cranial.' Through unrestrained and mutinous explorations of narrative and portraiture, as well as the occasional splash of humor and well placed non sequitur, Boston utterly transcends convention, highlighting many aspects of human experience accessible through the use of more traditional methods. Reading these poems is like embarking upon a trek through 'the depths of dreams, ' the 'infrastructure' of the soul itself! I celebrate the release of this work, a collection to which I shall, no doubt, frequently return." -- John Amen, author of At the Threshold of Alchemy.

Alessandro Manzetti

Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror, surrealism, crime, and noir. Set in a large America city, Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late-night streets: prostitutes, pimps, a thief, an arsonist, a police detective, a psychotic killer, and more. Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Baldwin’s striking illustrations. This is a dark read with some explicit graphic content. “Original, intelligent and exquisitely rendered, Sacrificial Nights is an absolute tour de force, a richly layered Chinese Box of sorts, where each part is as important as the whole. In a world of cookie-cutter plots and tired poetry, Sacrificial Nights is a shot of cool night air, shadowy, dangerous, and addictive as sin.” —Greg F. Gifune, author of The Bleeding Season "When a book is both lucid and hallucinogenic, the effect can be shocking, luminous … transgressive. The collision of talents in this extraordinary work practically establishes a new genre – macabre noir." —Robert Dunbar, author of Willy “Populated by denizens who straddle the line between salvation and damnation, Sacrificial Nightsreads like a flashlight exploration of the darkness lurking behind closed doors and down blind alleys. Boston and Manzetti deftly navigate the shadows where human monsters dwell.” —Michael McBride, author of Subterrestrial

Sacrificial Nights

Dark Tales & Light

Stephen King

Erik T. Johnson

Elizabeth Massie

Richard Chizmar

Richard Thomas

Ramsey Campbell

Chuck Palahniuk

Mort Castle

Jack Ketchum

Gary A. Braunbeck

Josh Malerman

Damien Angelica Walters

Mercedes M. Yardley

Stephanie M. Wytovich

Marge Simon

Scott Edelman

Hal Bodner

Meghan Arcuri

Gene O'Neill

Rose Blackthorn

Paul Michael Anderson

Eric J. Guignard

Max Booth, III

Erinn L. Kemper

Jason V. Brock

Emily B. Cataneo

Jessica May Lin

Gardner Goldsmith

Jonathan Balog

Sydney Leigh

Ciaran Parkes

Chiral Mad 3 Deluxe Hardcover

The masques of 17th century Europe presented dramatic entertainments based on mythic themes and enhanced by lavish costumes and sets. The entertainments in Bruce Boston's Masque of Dreams fashion myths of their own and are enhanced by the voice of a poet, often lyric and at times pyrotechnic. Journey to the depths of a mutant rain forest that strikes back against the encroachments of civilization. Join a Victorian stage magician in his search for real magic. Descend to the depths of an omnivorous singularity where everything is everything. Meet a true gentleman farmer and stand with vorpal sword in hand. Explore these masques of illusion and identity that entertain as they mine the limits of reality and dreams.

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