cOMING SOON
bACK rOADS AND fRONTAL LOBES
a short story collection
Re-Release with
cemetery dance books
JULY 2023
including bonus material: a weird-Western short story (“Crap-covered diamonds”) co-authored with brady’s dad, Harley Allen
“[Back Roads and Frontal Lobes] . . . conjures from the dust and dirt of Americana both the horror and pathos of life on the edges. Each story spins out a heightening dread, the prose swinging from brutal to beautiful and back again.”
-JOHN HORNOR JACOBS, AUTHOR OF THIS DARK EARTH, THE MURDER BALLADS, AND SOUTHERN GODS
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“. . . [Back Roads and Frontal Lobes] conjures from the dust and dirt of Americana both the horror and pathos of life on the edges. Each story spins out a heightening dread, the prose swinging from brutal to beautiful and back again.”
-John Hornor Jacobs, author of This Dark Earth, Southern Gods, and The Twelve-Fingered Boy“. . . demonstrates an astonishing breadth of imagination in this collection, along with memorable characters and a style that’s as clear and crisp as it is hard-hitting. Back Roads & Frontal Lobes is a master class in fiction writing, wildly entertaining and highly recommended!”
-Tim Waggoner, author of Writing in the Dark and We Will Rise
.” . . [Back Roads and Frontal Lobes is a] dense, thoroughly-satisfying collection of tales that range from the whimsical to the macabre and every combination in between. The word ‘quirky’ is always used in a faux-derogatory manner, but, man, does it apply here, and in the best sense of the word. You don’t know what’s coming from one story to the next . . .”
-Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Halfway Down the Stairs and There Comes a Midnight Hour“. . . [Back Roads and Frontal Lobes] holds dark, finely-crafted tales that take you on journeys that make your heart and gut clench and set your teeth hard against each other; they drive you headlong into irresistible worlds of insanity and horror.”
-Elizabeth Massie, author of Sineater, Desper Hollow, and the Ameri-Scares series
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