Picking the Bones
Picking the Bones About the Book: Step back, back into the world of 1996… "Dark fiction so numbing cold and cutting edge you better hold onto your ass with your free hand … There are no simple ‘entertainments' or cheap grabs for the throat to be found here. Hodge is deadly serious about presenting a world where the worst punishment is the mere fact that you are aware you will probably live to see another day." So wrote critic Stanley Wiater about Brian Hodge's renowned first short fiction collection, The Convulsion Factory. Three collections later, nothing has changed. Well … maybe one or two trifling entertainments. A couple of cheap grabs for some body part or another. But that's about it. There are still plenty of fates worse than death.
He lives with his soulmate snug against the mountains of Colorado, where he sighs and shakes his head at an ever-expanding list of must-do's, including photography, music and soundscaping, slinging iron, and Krav Maga training. He is currently engaged in a protracted locked-cage death match with novel #11. Only one of them will emerge victorious. Cyber-stalk him at www.brianhodge.net, http://warriorpoetblog.com, and http://www.facebook.com/brianhodgewriter Praise for Brian Hodge's previous collection, Lies & Ugliness "Good writers of both psychological horror and the grotesque fantastic only pretend to be peddling blood-splattered sleaze. They're moralists at heart — and Hodge is a particularly inventive one … A bravura performance by a true virtuoso." "Hodge never takes me where I expect to go. Hodge took me to places I'd never even dreamed of. And then twisted some of those … His stories are more than just tales, but intricate and thorough investigations of a life, a problem, or a world." "There may be those who write with as much authenticity, but no one has more ability to find the truth in as many forms or write it so well as a story. Hodge has the capacity to put his palm over the flame and carefully observe his flesh char — then write about the experience with unflinching, exquisite prose." Table of Contents: Published in two states:
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Brian Hodge is the author of ten novels featuring many diverse flavors of horror and crime. A repeat offender in various year's-best anthologies — including for 2010 — he's also written close to 100 short stories and novellas, many of which have been sutured together into three earlier collections. His works have been translated into several languages, including French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Japanese.