Winner of the ALA RUSA CODES The Reading List Award in Horror
“The clinical tone with which Evenson is able to traverse such situations, and the strange stark architecture of their world, makes even the most insidious or repulsive situations seem plausible, mathematical, nearby. Nothing is real, so everything is real.”
—VICE
“The deceptively simple prose keeps the book brisk and even gripping as its puzzles grow more craggy and complex. This is Evenson’s singular, Poe-like gift: He writes with intelligence and a steady hand, even when his characters decide to lop their own limbs off.”
—Time Out New York
“Brian Evenson is the kind of writer who should be rediscovered by every generation.”
—Vol. 1 Brooklyn
“A detective novel and a cult novel (in that it is about cults—though perhaps the other designation would work too) and a brutal horror novel and a fine work of minimalist literary fiction.”
—Literary Hub
“Evenson offers a distinctive spin on the private investigator genre, finding moments of horror and humor along the way.”
—Signature
