Zumaya Books and M.Christian are pleased to announce the publication of a brand new gay erotic horror/thriller by M.Christian:
Look
at your hand: four fingers and a thumb, right? But what if you woke
one morning and rather than four fingers and a thumb you are ... short?
How would you feel? What would you do? What would you become?
The
city is terrified: a mysterious figure is haunting the streets of
near-future San Francisco, drugging and amputating the fingertips of
queer men. But what's worse … this terror or that it can, so easily, turn any of us into something even more horrific?
Erotic. Nightmarish. Fascinating. Disturbing. Intriguing. Haunting. You have never read a book like Finger's Breadth.
You will never look your fingers - or the people all around you - the same way again.
Finger's Breadth may
well rank as one of the most psychologically astute erotic novels since
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, and it deserves to be just
as widely read.
- JKB, from the Circlet Press site
Finger's Breadth is
a real wild ride, the sort of novel you turn to when the apocalyptic
mayhem out your window gets dull, and you lust for something to remind
you of what it's like to live life at full-throttle. M.Christian sends
the reader hurtling like a hockey puck through a world of crime,
out-of-control passions, mutilation, and madness. Terms like noir and
hardboiled don't quite fit - this is more like ultraviolet, the
invisible light that makes the scorpions glow in the dark.
- Ernest Hogan, author of Cortez On Jupiter and High Aztech
It
is not that hard to come up with an idea that can be turned into a
horror story and that is why horror has been part of the folklore of
America and why these stories are so popular on camp-outs as we sit
around a campfire. To successfully do this, we need a combination of
characters and plot but more important than all else is a novel way to
relate the story. For me that is the definition of M.Christian. This
book is unlike anything I have read before and I suspect that it will
stay with me for quite a while.
- Amos Lassen, reviewer
Finger's Breadth creates
a vivid portrait of a community torn apart by suspicion, where the
thrills of hot, anonymous sex go hand in mutilated hand with the chill
of fear, and no one is entirely what they seem. M.Christian skilfully
mixes a dark, potent cocktail of lust, longing, paranoia and an
overwhelming need for acceptance...
- Liz Coldwell, author of Take Your Slave To Work
To
be effective, the act of literary intercourse between horror and
erotica should be deeply unsettling. It should leave the reader feeling
uncomfortable, overwhelmed by equal parts dread and anticipation.
M.Christian understands this better than most, weaving a tale that
permits the reader but a finger’s breadth of space between fear and
arousal. His deft control of the story makes us feel the blade, but it's
his subtle manipulation of our emotions that makes us want the cut.
- Sally Sapphire, Bellasbookslut
M.Christian
has seen the future -- and it is hardboiled! If you love crime stories
-- gay or otherwise -- and you love science fiction, you will love Finger's Breadth. No other storyteller nails it quite like M.Christian does. This is a real page turner.
-- Marilyn Jaye Lewis, author of Freak Parade
M.Christian
is a force to be reckoned with. Just when you think you understand the
path that his narrative and characters are taking, Christian throws a
monkey wrench, or a limb, or a head into the works and you have to get
your bearings and start all over again. No matter which book of his you
pick up, prepare for an intoxicatedly weird ride.
-Ily Goyanes, author and filmmaker
- Paula Guran, Darkecho
Finger's Breadth is
as dark and rich and well-blended as good bourbon. Sexy, suspenseful,
and believable in the details and elements of its world. Great stuff!
- Angela Caperton, author of Darkness And Delight
Finger's Breadth is
mesmeric storytelling, riveting in execution and appalling in
implication. M.Christian’s tale of erotic terror in a near-future San
Francisco is imagined so skillfully that it grabs the reader with its
easy familiarity, then refuses to let go as it careens to its shocking
yet completely believable conclusion. Evoking such Grand Masters as
Armistead Maupin, Thomas Harris and Rod Serling while remaining
strikingly original, Finger's Breadth is
Christian at the height of his considerable powers. Like Charon the
ferryman, the author takes the reader down the dark rivers of human
sexuality and shows us things that would normally never see the light of
day. Ultimately the most compelling aspect of this fiction is how
fascinatingly and terrifyingly plausible it is. Finger's Breadth should come with a warning label: Read this before clubbing.
- Christopher Pierce, author of Rogue Slave, Rogue Hunted, and Kidnapped By A Sex Maniac
Zumaya Books
ISBN-10: 1934841463
ISBN-13: 978-1934841464
M.Christian is - among many things - an acknowledged master of erotica with more than 400 stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica, Best Fetish Erotica, and many, many other anthologies, magazines, and Web sites.
He is the editor of 25 anthologies including the Best S/M Erotica series, The Burning Pen, Guilty Pleasures, The Mammoth Book of Future Cops and The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road (with Maxim Jakubowksi) and Confessions, Garden of Perverse, and Amazons (with Sage Vivant) as well as many others.
He is the author of the collections Dirty
Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, Licks & Promises,
Filthy, Love Without Gun Control, Rude Mechanicals, Coming Together
Presents M.Christian, Pornotopia, and How To Write And Sell Erotica; and the novels Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Me2, Brushes, and Painted Doll. His Web site is www.mchristian.com.
2 comments:
I'll have to read this! Just wanted to stop in and tell you that I read 'Running Dry' and I really, really enjoyed it.
Thanks,
Melissa
Thanks so much! Drop me a line and I'll send you a copy -- but in the meantime so glad you are enjoying Running Dry!
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