Брайан Эвенсон

Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson’s hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime’s imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic m...

"Последние дни": Бывшего полицейского Кляйна похищают адепты странной секты, в которой считают, что можно стать ближе к Богу при помощи ампутаций. Кто-то зарезал основателя их культа, и теперь Кляйн должен найти убийцу. Но в секте полно тайн, ее иерархия непроницаема, и даже простой допрос превращается в запутанный ребус. И чем дальше заходит Кляйн в своем расследовании, тем быстрее мир вокруг нег...

A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perce...

XVI век. Отряд испанских конкистадоров пробирается через бескрайнюю прерию. И чем дальше они забираются в пустошь, тем больше вокруг них живых мертвецов, кем-то выпотрошенных и изувеченных, тем тоньше ткань реальности…

A stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won’t stop seeping in. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary—the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. Praise for Brian Evenson: "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures ...

Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In the title story an obsessive consciousness folds back on itself, creating a vertiginous melange o...

Героя рассказа переводят в Исправительное учреждение и приют для своевольных тел Святого Себастьяна, где он проходит подгонку к новому разуму и телу необычным способом…

After losing a hand in a sting operation, Kline, a detective, finds himself unwillingly dragged into a secret amputation cult, recruited into a strange world in order to solve a crime whose details the self-mutilated members of the cult are strangely reluctant to discuss. As he struggles to unravel the nightmarish dynamics of the society and figure out the crime, he accidentally violates caste law...

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Mapping a literary space uniquely his own, Evenson's CONTAGION AND OTHER STORIES pursues to a new level the crepescular and delirious exploration begun in his acclaimed and controversial ALTMANN'S TONGUE. In the O'Henry Award winning "Two Brothers," a minister breaks his leg while his sons watch then refuses to call an ambulance, remaining convinced even unto death that God will arr...