Born To Be Weird: DeMented Fantasy and Bizarro Horror - Softcover

Sytes; Set

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648411495 ISBN 13: 9781648411496

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

A public restroom even more horrific than most, with a stained toilet that can swallow a man whole, sending him to a sewage-filled hell. A riverbank lined with swaying mops given faces and philosophies. A secondary school that seems to waver in and out of reality not only in dreams, but also upon wakeful visitation. An isolated grotto, home to trolls and the posthumous shadow form of Elvis Presley. These are all settings of peculiar, often unnerving events in How Not to Kill Yourself author Set Sytes's collection of short bizarro fiction. It features the longer story 'The School of Necromancy', in which a school buried deep in the Catacombs of York teaches subjects much less innocent than math or language arts.

About this title

About the Author

Set Sytes was born in the misty, Arthurian woods of England and was raised by bears. He never grew up, meaning that his ambition is still to become Emperor of the Known Universe (to start with). When he's not spending his time plotting how best to achieve this and more, he is composing stories - warnings of sorts, as to what we might expect when he finally succeeds in breaking down the barriers between worlds. Set has authored many stories of darkness and weirdness and flights of fancy, including the adult sci-fi/fantasy The Fifth Place series, the pirate fantasy India Bones series, the twisted dystopian thriller Moral Zero, and the fantasy/horror short story collections of Faces in the Dark and Born to be Weird. He is also the author of the non-fiction anti-depression handbook How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648411495
• ISBN 13: 9781648411496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192