A thirty-something floral salesman searches for reasons to keep living. “Marigold is a hundred haikus of loneliness, pages torn from Baudelaire’s dream journal, the suicide note as high art. Forget your dime-a-dozen writers on the New York Times bestseller list; here is an authentic voice crying out from the American darkness.” —Kevin Maloney, author of Cult of Loretta “Beautiful, foul, and brief, this potent roman à clef more than earns its title. Grim, yet ultimately hopeful in its own twisted way. Weaver is one of my favorite writers working today, and his ear and rhythm are in full effect in Marigold.” —J David Osborne, author of Black Gum “Marigold is a no-bullshit portrait of 21st century American loneliness. It’s a small epic on the mysteries of alienation and self-doubt. Weaver is the poet-laureate of Midwestern absurdity with a heart a mile wide He is a writer with great powers of empathy and devastating sadness. . . a refreshingly honest revelation for these idiotic times we live in.” —Michael Bible, author of Sophia “If the ultimate goal of literature is to connect human beings, Marigold lives up to its highest standards.” —Benoit Lelièvre, Dead End Follies

Marigold

Literature & Fiction

Troy James Weaver

Humor & Satire

King Shot Press

From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Do You Like to Look at Monsters? and Ana Kai Tangata . . . Scott Nicolay’s NOCTUIDAE follows a trio of hikers into the savage heart of an Arizona canyon. Far from any sign of living civilization, and with no way to call for help, the trip goes from wrong to worse when one of the hikers turns up missing. The remaining two find themselves stranded in a shallow cave, suspicious of each other and desperate to survive until sunrise, praying that whatever’s out there won’t hear them. “Scott Nicolay is the strongest voice to appear in horror fiction since Laird Barron.” —Rue Morgue “Exquisite, inventive, savage, and chilling, without being beholden to pulp-era titans. This is Weird Literature, circa now.” —Ross E. Lockhart, editor of Cthulhu Fhtagn! and The Children of Old Leech “We are not in the presence of a callow and bullish youth, but a man of erudition and experience. Nicolay is one who has seen much, endured much, has undergone prolonged pressure and the result is a diamond among stones.”—Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All “Nicolay’s writing is clean-limbed, not a shred of rococco excess on it. Poetry and the demotic mix well in his prose. He expertly delivers clues and foreshadowings and backstory tidbits attendant upon his enigmas and frights without hammering the reader over the head with gore or hyperbole. His characters are engrossing, if often repellant, his plotting assured, and his venues enticingly nasty.” —Locus “The first thing that hits you while reading Scott Nicolay. . . That old black magic that comes with encountering great weird fiction for the first time.” —Crows N’ Bones

Noctuidae

Nicolay, Scott

Genre Fiction

Alexander, the first crowd-sourced city, has come to rival NYC as the premier metropolis in America. It's known as The Paradise City, the first step of a new era. But tonight: A haunting art performance. A killer's quest for redemption. And a photo shoot in a field set aflame. These plant in Alexander seeds of chaos that, when they blossom, will see paradise tearing itself apart.   “Lambert is a fresh, strong and self-reliant voice that invented a universe of an unspeakable beauty and an inexplicable foreboding. Killer &Victim is a novel of human connection and creation . . . a visceral experience that’ll appeal to the most reckless readers . . .” —Benoit Lelièvre, Dead End Follies “Lambert writes like a seasoned pro and has a knack for atmosphere and understated dialogue that makes this novel read like a cross between a Don DeLillo serial killer novel and a script about human disconnection in a futuristic metropolis co-written by David Cronenberg and David Foster Wallace . . . bizarre literary fiction and noir with a touch of (techno)fantasy.” —Gabino Iglesias, The Big Click “. . . challenging, genre-bending.” —The Monitor

Killer &Victim

Chris Lambert

Literary

Aging punks recapture the greatest show of their youth through barbaric rituals. The lone survivor of a hellish Interstate pile-up follows an otherworldly sound to its source. A father desperate to cure his daughter’s condition uncovers a multinational corporation’s unspeakable plan for solving world hunger. In these eleven stories, Cody Goodfellow explores the bizarre and the deeply human, using the kaleidoscopic language only he is capable of. “Brutal, breakneck, and brilliant—STRATEGIES AGAINST NATURE grabs you by the throat and drags you under. Don’t even try to resist.” —DANIEL H. WILSON, author of Robopocalypse “Truly unique, imaginative and sometimes painfully graphic.” —RUE MORGUE “One of the best writers of our generation.” —BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Dark Hollow “‘80s vintage horror with a contemporary edge. An exemplary wordsmith, his prose sticks a needle in your brain and gives it a twist. This stuff is Lovecraft on acid.” —LAIRD BARRON, author of The Imago Sequence & Other Stories “The Ellroy of speculative fiction . . .” —JEREMY ROBERT JOHNSON, author of Skullcrack City

Strategies Against Nature

Cody Goodfellow

PAIN LASTS LONGER THAN LOVE. 
“LeVoit’s work exists at the center of a glowing nexus where fever dream punk rock poetry collides with raw emotion and vertiginous talent.” —Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack City
Set in and around Hollywood Forever Cemetery, this tense and mind-bending noir is Violet LeVoit at her finest: an unnerving, unpredictable and comic journey through deep trauma and glitzy nostalgic insanity.
“I Miss The World is a gut-punch, throat-punch, heart- punch of a novel. LeVoit knows how to seduce you with a lullaby when she’s going for blood.” —Danger Slater, author of Puppet Skin 
“It is masterful, it is beautiful and awful, it is sweepingly and breathtakingly artistic, the impact of seeing some great natural wonder or work of art for the first time.” —The Horror Fiction Review 
“Revelatory, gut-punching, brilliantly anarchic perfection.” —J David Osborne, author of Black Gum 
“A crushing journey into the beauty and horror of nostalgia.” —LitReactor
"The hype does not disappoint." —The Big Smoke

I Miss The World

LeVoit, Violet

HE RECKONED THE GODS MUST KNOW ALL KINDS OF STRANGE WAYS TO EAT A MAN.
‘80s vintage horror with a contemporary edge. An exemplary wordsmith, his prose sticks a needle in your brain and gives it a twist. This stuff is Lovecraft on acid. —LAIRD BARRON, author of The Imago Sequence &amp; Other Stories
As far as Weird fiction goes, Cody lives it. Get into it, you goddamn mummy! —SKINNER
Genetic mutation, near-future extinction events, psychoactive abuse, interspecies sex and – yes – giant monsters . . . Subtle, it ain’t. It’s like gorging on an opulent feast, or watching the collected oeuvre of Stuart Gordon in one go. An acquired taste. But if you are like me and enjoy both Naked Lunch and Rick and Morty, then these gore-encrusted stories will make your day. Highly recommended. —CROWS N' BONES

All-Monster Action!

Goodfellow, Cody

From body positivity to sexual empowerment to overcoming adversity and beyond, Nasty! is a collection of bold essays and recollections by fierce women who are not ashamed of who they are or what they do. Featuring Boodawe, Jacqueline-Elizabeth Cottrell, Sabrina Dropkick, Tara Dublin, Amber Fallon, Devora Gray, MP Johnson, Rhonda Jackson Joseph, Diana Kirk, Jacqueline Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Louise, Jessie Lynn McMains, Cervante Pope, Julie Rea, Jennifer Robin, Rocket, Eleanor Rose, Missy Suicide, Kim Vodicka . . .
100% of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Planned Parenthood, a provider of affordable healthcare, sex education and family planning in the United States and worldwide.

Nasty!

Robin, Jennifer

Suicide, Missy

Essays & Correspondence

NEVER FALL IN LOVE NEVER TRY TO ESCAPE
Forrest Armstrong's underground classic traces the gloomy, psychedelic journey of a born slave thrust into a confusing and dangerous new world following an outburst of violence. Told in a raw, imaginative style, The Deadheart Shelters is a haunting parable of friendship, lost love, and what it means to be free.
"The Deadheart Shelters ebbs and flows like the best kind of jazz, the kind played by a knife-scarred vagrant with a rusty horn and an earnest heart." --Kelby Losack, author of Heathenish

The Deadheart Shelters

Forrest Armstrong

A couple arrive at a Mexican resort town as grisly murders escalate, crowds converge in Manhattan for an End of the World party, a journalist's search for the real story leads him to the facts of his own disappearance. . . Chris Campanioni's Drift is an apocalyptic riddle, a countdown to dead time, where what's scripted begins to blur with what's real and the pervasive fear of being surveilled is matched only by a desire to keep filming."Drift is a dizzying, nightmarish journey through our final days. This is one of those unique works, existing somewhere between Julio Cort zar's 62: A Model Kit, Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, and maybe Lars Von Trier's Melancholia . . . Campanioni has written an hysterical, existential glimpse of a parallel now populated with disappearing lovers, converging singularities and technological depression." --Chris Lambert, author of Killer Unconquered"Campanioni's writing is playful, unflinching . . . a much-needed reminder of our endless potential for duality, in a world that too often suggests only polarity is possible."--Harvard Review"He is Frank O'Hara traveling the hyper-connected contemporary landscape via iPhone--spawning, recording, discarding speculative versions of himself. . . He carries his Situationism between cities, between countries, between periods in his life without rest or regard for boundaries. Campanioni isn't playing at being clever; he is erasing himself to locate the sublime." --The Brooklyn Rail

Drift

Campanioni, Chris

United States

AN EXPLODED VIEW OF ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY-DEBATED RAP RECORDS OF ALL TIME
From designer lamps and masks, to cult filmmakers, to avant garde DJs and rap pioneers, to . . . Adam Sandler?
Chris Lambert and Travis Bean (Watching The Throne podcast), Donald Martin (YouTube’s The Most Unruly), and Martin Connor (Editor-in-Chief of RapAnalysis.com) take us on an in-depth look through the influences, story, and musical architecture of the album, as well as its unorthodox production across multiple cities, and an ambitious, sprawling tour concept . . . This is The Yeezus Book, an illustrated narrative guide to Kanye West’s enigmatic sixth solo effort that’s like nothing that came before it.
Designed by Matthew Revert and Michael Kazepis, and featuring art by Fabian Louis.

The Yeezus Book

Arts & Photography

Martin, Donald

Connor, Martin

Bean, Travis

Music

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