ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE UPCOMING STABS AT HAPPINESS
“The stories in Todd Grimson’s brilliant new collection shine a blinding, sinister light onto the darker chambers of the human heart. … In the tradition of writers like Hubert Selby,Jr., Paul Bowles, and Robert Stone, Grimson remains a true original: a genuine 21st century American visionary.”
-Elizabeth Hand, author of AVAILABLE DARK and GENERATION LOSS
“Grimson’s short fiction occupies that high, clear zone where Borges and Kafka dwell. The atmosphere is intoxicating and ominous. The view is limitless, seductive, always unexpected and distinctly dangerous. Delicious.”
-Katherine Dunn, author of GEEK LOVE
“Todd Grimson’s unique stories carry me into fascinating situations, where in the corners of rooms quick, strange, and wary minds entangle. His angst-ridden characters are aliens at home, encountering the non-negotiable. “Nothing in Tangier” is an excruciatingly suspenseful and fierce story. I think Patricia Highsmith and Paul Bowles were smiling as Grimson wrote it.”
-Lynne Tillman, author of SOMEDAY THIS WILL BE FUNNY
“At his best, Todd Grimson channels the likes of Paul Bowles and Graham Greene. He works effortlessly, with fine result.”
-Joel Rose, author of THE BLACKEST BIRD and KILL KILL FASTER FASTER
“Todd Grimson’s stories are perhaps slightly less ruthless than his splendid meta-pulp novels, but they are ruthless enough…our teeth settle on a tough, convincing bone of reality…to become literature. Even in the exquisitely and more conventionally composed “Nothing in Tangier,” we are brought on the last page to the Grimson crunch, a devastating compound of desire, hopelessness, and waste.”
-Harry Mathews, author of CIGARETTES and MY LIFE IN THE CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR STAINLESS
“In STAINLESS Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel,’ and succeeded.”
- DAMIEN WALTER. The Guardian (UK)
“Edgy, Cool, Dark. Just what I like to read. A voice and a style to reckon with.”
- CHARLIE HUSTON, bestselling author of “The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death” and “The Shotgun Rule”
“In many ways, STAINLESS could be called a post-modern vampire story, as Grimson tweaks our perceptions with the literary equivalent of a knowing wink … what sets STAINLESS apart is not so much its narrative structure as its character details, its moments of intimacy between human and vampire.”
- DAVID L. ULIN, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“If Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor had written a vampire novel, it might read with the brutal and passionate clarity of STAINLESS. Layers of corruption are explored and peeled away from the core of a heart-crushing love story. The ultimate late night in L.A.”
- KATHERINE DUNN, author, Geek Love
“Grimson’s description of vampire seduction has a marvelous, hallucinatory glassiness to it, and the information he provides – garlic and crucifixes don’t bother vampires, but amnesia can be a problem when you’ve lived for centuries – is a source of considerable humor.”
- MICHAEL UPCHURCH, The Seattle Times
“Vampires are hard pressed to be new and exciting. Where Dracula is outdated, Stainless is cutting edge … This book is not so much a Vampire novel as it is a highly readable analysis of human tragedy … It seems to have aged perfectly, coming back into print with a fist-full of mid-1990′s authenticity.&rdquo
-JASON FNORD, FNORDINC.COM
ADDITIONAL PRAISE FOR BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR
"Dark and magical; the pages fly!"
– Patricia Briggs, NYT Bestselling author of Urban Fantasy including the "Casey Thompson series"
"Thrilling, edgy, gritty, and above all, terrific!"
- Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD RECKONING
"Grimson has given us a true look at the dark side - sexy, perverse, twisted and so very entertaining!"
- A.M. Homes, author of THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS
“When Lisa Nova seeks revenge, she discovers her own amazing powers, turns smoldering rage into a stunning creative force, and reveals herself as one of the great characters of literature. BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR is a modern classic – brutal and funny, gorgeous and profound.”
- Katherine Dunn, author of GEEK LOVE
“Droll without ever being boring, perfectly poised on the edge that separates humor from horror, this novel furthers Grimson’s reputation as one of the more inventive new writers probing the dark side of contemporary America.”
- Publisher’s Weekly
“Cool and funny, visceral and paradoxically detached, BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR seizes its subject matter and does it justice. With a vengeance. Lisa Nova’s the sexiest, most striking new heroine in dark fantasy since Sonja Blue. Or anti-heroine.”
- Locus
“Avant-garde horror writer Grimson … leaves one thrilled if feeling rather unclean.”
- Kirkus Reviews
“Witheringly funny in its satire against cinema, stardom and celebrity, Grimson’s novel performs a gleeful demolition job on the mindlessness of American ‘slasher’ movies. Working within the tradition of John Updike’s THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, the book blends subject matter and a realistic technique to explore what one of its characters calls ‘the metaphysical strangeness of existence.’”
- The Daily Telegraph, UK
“A hectic pursuit of narrative force by any means is allied to verbal wit and ingenious games in BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR, Todd Grimson’s spectacular novel of Hollywood and the occult … a foul-mouthed, extravagant novel, combining a strong sense of the demonic with some snappy one-liners. Grimson … has produced a novel of vitality and promise.”
- The Times (of London) Literary Supplement
“A gang of zombie bikers, ancient Aztecs, designer drugs and bucketloads of horror movie glamour take BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR on a hallucinogenic, Hollywood trip. One highly hip, extremely bizarre and darkly humorous read—buy it!”
- Company, UK
“… perhaps the best horror novel I've read in the last few decades.”
- Elizabeth Hand, Jan/Feb 2012 Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
“It’s the novel that, out of anything I’ve ever read, most closely mirrors the rhythm and logic of nightmares.”
- Nick Antosca, The Paris Review Daily
