Lazy Fascist Press
124 pages, $9.95

Review by Gabino Iglesias

Whenever I read Brian Allen Carr’s work, I picture an old, barefoot, bearded prophet with smart eyes breathing in dust on the side of the road in a small town somewhere in East Texas as he yells passionately about the end of the world. Carr’s economy of language is second to none and he has a knack for selecting words that have a natural tendency to flow well together. His prose possesses a distinctive cadence that brings together noir, horror, and bizarro and this combination allows him to construct something new and unique, and the glue he uses for that is a spellbinding Southern Gothic tone that has the uncanny power of forcing readers to keep turning pages no matter how weird the narrative gets. Continue reading →