Graves - A Distressing Novel
 

To be released by Snuggly Books, June 11th.


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Book description:


In Graves, Damien, a male nurse and self-styled ‘thanatophile’, is in love with death in its purer and more ideal form. However, as he casts around for some authentic way to defy the void of modernity, his thanatophilia is swiftly and insidiously corrupted. Scavenging what ‘materials’ he can, he works in isolation like a reverse Doctor Frankenstein, wishing to understand the secrets of death, not life, in order to break the narrative power of science over the modern mind.

Set against the backdrop of anomie-drenched 21st-century London, Graves, Quentin S. Crisp’s second major novel, is a work of Gothic horror that confronts the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness in a world where it is easier to believe in artificial intelligence than human intelligence.

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Is there another bundle imminent? I'm guessing it will contain this one, if so?

Hugely looking forward to this book!

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Yes, there will soon be a bundle offered that will also offer a hardcover version of this book.

Thank you!

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I was lucky enough to read this novel in the proof stage and can confirm that it's one of Quentin's most hard fitting works to date. If you like Remember You're a One-Ball or his darker poems you will be very impressed with this. It's not giving too much away but one of the major themes is the actual felt experience of death and decomposition - what's it like to be a corpse?

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This will be a must buy, that's for sure. Very much looking forward to it.

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I finally read the One-Ball novel within the last couple weeks, and I'm still in a sour mood over it. Both disturbing and horribly depressing. Good thing Graves is still months away as I probably couldn't bear it right now, haha. But definitely looking forward to it.

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Great interview.

I've heard there are people who programmed social media sites who lose sleep over programming choices that had a negative social impact.

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Listened to this interview to help me go to sleep* and ended up staying awake listening to the whole thing. This looks like exactly my kind of book, and the excerpts were great. I plan on getting it on release.


*wait, I didn't mean that as an insult.