Gary J. Shipley

• Jun-2004
• / Suspense
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• Oct-2013
• / Science Fiction
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"DREAMS OF AMPUTATION reads like the nightmares Derek Raymond might have experienced if he'd written cyberpunk. An exceptionally strange work, but a smart and thoughtful one as well. Disturbing, haunting, and inimitably weird, this is a book like no ...

• Dec-2013
• / General Fiction
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SHROUDS is an abstract graphic novel that suggests a narrative that it cannot quite divulge, each page being a scene or a portal into a whole that clears only to fade. If Henry Michaux had been haunted by faces and creatures that were themselves haun...

• Mar-2016
• / Literary
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When Mr. Shipley first shared with me his desire, to lock himself in a room with nothing but "Begotten" playing in a loop cycle, watching its images over and over again for two weeks, isolating himself from any outside influence, taking no interrupti...

• Jul-2016
• / General Fiction
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Schism [2] Press rereleases Gary J. Shipley’s first novel

Crypt(o)spasm is a fiendish formula for any vitalist utopia: The elimination of death or the so-called immortality is equal to life as the ceaseless permutation of a ghoulish empti...

• Dec-2017
• / Horror
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"Absurdist horror at its best. Gary Shipley had me hooked from beginning to end." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Quicksand House

Something is horribly wrong with my wife. She doesn't move anymore. When I try to lift her I can't. It's like ...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Film. 30 FAKE BEHEADINGS imagines 30 unthinkable sequels to 30 sui generis movies. Drawing on decapitation theory and the post-cephalic nature of cinematic experience, it documents a viewer's repeated decollation as a way of documenting the ...

• Sep-2020
• / Horror
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Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. Highly Recommend.-Tony Burgess, author of Pontypool Changes Everything Gary J. Shipley's writing has a way of making every form he works within advance, in ...

• Feb-2023
• / Horror
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A narrator is trapped inside a house, where their search for an exit ends up only adding to its walls, its ceilings, its floors, its rooms.The House Inside The House of Gregor Schneider is a conceptual nouveau roman constructed almost entirely from a...

• Jul-2024
• / Horror
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Stab Frenzy is a brilliant, brutal satire of the art world, but it's more than that, too: it's a work of art in itself, an ingenious and gory paean to the author's favourite artists-the shut-ins, the suicides, the spree killers, the daydreamers who d...