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BLOOD CRAZY SERIES — Coming SEPTEMBER 2023

 Simon Clark — praised by THE WASHINGTON POST as an exponent of the 'inventive' and the 'fast-moving'. 

We are pleased to announce that acclaimed horror author Simon Clark has signed a three-book deal with Darkness Visible Publishing, inaugurating the BLOOD CRAZY SERIES. 

The first book will be a republication of the popular and bestselling post-apocalyptic novel Blood Crazy, originally published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1995. It tells the story of nineteen-year-old Nick Aten, caught up in a maelstrom when, for no discernible reason, the entire adult population becomes murderously unhinged and feral. Read more...

Triskaidekaphobia — Coming August 2023

A collection of eight noir stories from Roger Keen, with themes of dark psychology, outlandish violence, amorous transgression and the search for bespoke oblivion as an antidote to the human condition…with a touch of comedy to even out the mix.

A young man who fears anything associated with the number thirteen contemplates his thirteenth lover with ultimate dread.

A lonely, nervous woman believes that a work colleague is targeting her with obscene phone calls. Read more...

MAN OF LETTERS — Coming MARCH 2023

A collection of fourteen essays by Roger Keen, each with a theme involving aspects of psychedelia. Several have previously appeared in Psychedelic Press, The Oak Tree Review and Reality Sandwich, covering countercultural history, avant-garde and psychedelic cinema, and the psychology of altered states.

They touch on figures such as Thomas De Quincey, Charles Baudelaire, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, William Burroughs, Carlos Castaneda, Timothy Leary and Howard Marks; and in the field of cinema, directors including Ken Russell, Roger Corman, David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam, Jan Švankmajer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Georges Méliès and Ben Wheatley are explored. Read more...

THE EMPTY CHAIR — Coming AUGUST 2021

A novel thirty-four years in the making from Roger Keen, which holds up a skewed mirror to personal and cultural history, gaming the relationship of truth and fiction. 

Steve Penhaligon confronts his father symbolically and then for real, and his Empty Chair takes on a life of its own as the cameras roll.Set in the milieu of the British film and TV industry from the 1980s through to the 2000s, the novel blends the genres historiographic metafiction and autofiction.

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LITERARY STALKER — Coming SEPTEMBER 2017

Roger Keen branches into new territory with a psychological crime/thriller containing horror overtones, set within the milieu of the British horror, fantasy and sci-fi writing community.

Literary Stalker is also metafictional, using the device of novels-within-novels and exploring the interface between fiction and its sources in reality. In this respect, it builds on Roger’s previous book, the ‘novelistic memoir’, The Mad Artist, based on his experiences as an art student...and writing about them.

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