Set Sytes

Revised edition of the author's How not to kill yourself, 2016.

A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists

How Not to Kill Yourself

A highly imaginative and relatable guide for anyone who needs the reassurance that suicide is NEVER worth it. Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn't really suited to your surroundings? Are you definitely misunderstood, likely angry, and almost certainly depressed? Set Sytes, hailing from the UK, would prefer you stay alive and sort things out rather than the alternative, thanks. He figures there are better opportunities for you out there and lays it all out in a way that's compelling, funny, sharp, and useful. This zine turned book (please don't call it a self-help guide, asks the author) is ultimately about how to be a person in the world. It can be done non-miserably, we promise.

A collection of short stories of paranoid horror A girl begins to question why she and her parents wear monstrous masks they have never, ever taken off, though she may have been better off not knowing. An insomniac spends every night watched by a dark, silent figure in the bedroom, and while this figure disappears by morning, he seems to be growing stronger and bolder. It turns out that when things go missing, spidery little creatures with the missions of disarray and madness, gathering and harvesting are to blame; humanity has deeply wronged them, and between their antics they've been planning a much more sinister revenge. These and several other horror stories await in Set Sytes's new collection, which includes The Violet Dark, an unsettling, dreamy (or nightmare-y, rather) novella revolving around an addictive drink.

A Collection of Paranoid Horror

Faces in the Dark

Reshuffling is a fairly standard procedure for momentous times likes this-destroy order by moving some minds to different bodies, hit the reset button, and continue on as if nothing's changed. But mistakes are made, and one man finds himself on an entirely different planet, old memories largely intact, with a gun pressed against his head.

Wulf: Book One of the Fifth Place Series

Every ten years, the Ship of the Dead arrives and no one is more excited for this event than thirteen-year-old India Bones, who is desperate to leave and explore the great wide rest of the world. When he paints his face and sneaks into the midst of the dancing dead, he ends up plunging straight into the adventure he craves.

India Bones and the Ship of the Dead

Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn't really suited to your surroundings? Are you definitely misunderstood, likely angry, and almost certainly depressed? Set Sytes, hailing from the UK, would prefer you stay alive and sort things out rather than the alternative, thanks. He figures there are better opportunities for you out there and lays it all out in a way that's compelling, funny, sharp, and useful. This book (please don't call it a self-help guide, asks the author) is ultimately about how to be a person in the world. It can be done non-miserably, we promise.

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists

'Just to reiterate, now we're on the same page, I need a gun and I need to get out of here.'Alexia Slade is being held prisoner in a place that exists outside of space and time. She will need all her cunning - and the remains of her sanity - if she ever hopes to escape and return home.Jay Wulf has found a way through the Black Circle and out the other side. He gathers old allies and risky new ones as he sets out to explore a futuristic and yet completely broken world.They will need all the help they can get. For this world is controlled and manipulated from the shadows, by somebody known only as the Spider. And he has taken quite the interest in the newcomers . . .The Fifth Place is about the universe under mysterious control, and the group of antiheroic misfits determined to survive it and be free no matter what comes. Ideal for fans of Stephen King's The Dark Tower books, Garth Ennis's Preacher comics, Joe Abercrombie, and the Farscape TV series, The Fifth Place is for those who want a pull-no-punches adult series merging western, sci-fi, gritty fantasy, dystopian, adventure and horror genres, with a diverse, irreverent and tragically flawed cast of characters to root for against all odds.

Slade

A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophies. A secondary school that seems to waver in and out of reality not only in dreams, but also upon wakeful visitation. An isolated grotto, home to trolls and the posthumous shadow form of Elvis Presley. These are all settings of the peculiar, often unnerving events in Set Sytes’s collection of short bizarro fiction. By the author of How Not to Kill Yourself, this second edition of Born to Be Weird features hordes of new terrors and otherworldly adventures to make your stomach turn and skin crawl.

Demented Fantasy and Bizarro Horror

Born to Be Weird

A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophies. A secondary school that seems to waver in and out of reality not only in dreams, but also upon wakeful visitation. An isolated grotto, home to trolls and the posthumous shadow form of Elvis Presley. These are all settings of the peculiar, often unnerving events in Set Sytes's collection of short bizarro fiction. By the author of How Not to Kill Yourself, this second edition of Born to Be Weird features hordes of new terrors and otherwordly adventures to make your stomach turn and skin crawl.

Born to Be Weird: DeMented Fantasy and Bizarro Horror

'Am I going to have a problem with you, Wulf?''Me, sir? Never. No sir. Not one.'Our antiheroes (though even that is stretching the definition) have travelled to the planet Dale in the hopes of safety and solace. With its towering buildings and pristine snow-covered streets, and not to mention its costumed vigilantes keeping things colourful, it seems like a big step up.Except Dale is a false promise. The world is stuck in an endless cold war between two giant empires, separated by a vast and deadly wilderness. The status quo is everything. Our troublemaking group find themselves thrust into darkness and squalor, in a city built on corruption, exploitation and prejudice.Life can only get harder, and if it isn't their gruelling new jobs breaking their backs, it's the blackmailing presence of the Organisation - the international crime syndicate that is the true power on this planet . . .One way or another, something's going to break.The Fifth Place is about the universe under mysterious control, and the group of antiheroic misfits determined to survive it and be free no matter what comes. Ideal for fans of Stephen King's The Dark Tower books, Garth Ennis's Preacher comics, Joe Abercrombie, and the Farscape TV series, The Fifth Place is for those who want a pull-no-punches adult series merging western, sci-fi, gritty fantasy, dystopian, adventure and horror genres, with a diverse, irreverent and tragically flawed cast of characters to root for against all odds.

Volsyng

The crew of the Devil's Dress have been cursed by a god. All their lives are put in danger, and when each of them is taken out of action one by one, India Bones must begin the desperate search for a way to remove the curse before it consumes them. A search that will take him and his remaining allies across the Caribbean and Mississippi Seas - and down into the water, deeper than any human has ever explored ... INDIA BONES AND THE HUNT FOR BLACK ATLANTIS is the third book in the imaginative pirate fantasy series India Bones, going deeper and darker than ever before.

India Bones and the Hunt for Black Atlantis

A collection of demented fantasy and horror A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophies. A secondary school that seems to waver in and out of reality not only in dreams, but also upon wakeful visitation. An isolated grotto, home to trolls and the posthumous shadow form of Elvis Presley. These are all settings of peculiar, often unnerving events in How Not to Kill Yourself author Set Sytes's collection of short bizarro fiction. It features the longer story "The School of Necromancy," in which a school buried deep in the Catacombs of York teaches subjects much less innocent than math or language arts.

A Collection of Demented Fantasy & Horror

A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophies. A secondary school that seems to waver in and out of reality not only in dreams, but also upon wakeful visitation. An isolated grotto, home to trolls and the posthumous shadow form of Elvis Presley. These are all settings of peculiar, often unnerving events in How Not to Kill Yourself author Set Sytes’s collection of short bizarro fiction. It features the longer story “The School of Necromancy,” in which a school buried deep in the Catacombs of York teaches subjects much less innocent than math or language arts.

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