Gorgonaeon - Softcover

Krall, Jordan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692506578 ISBN 13: 9780692506578

Publisher: Dynatox Ministries, 2015

Synopsis

GORGONAEON, one in a proposed cycle of several books, is a fragmentary and hallucinogenic reading experience. Frequent shifts in time and perspective imbue this book with an atmosphere of paranoia and dread, but an optimistic and magical aura can be exhumed from Krall’s alchemical wordplay as well. The bizarre mages are poetically stitched to an odd narrative about mental and moral disintegration to create a curious doubling effect. Gorgonaeon is a challenging yet rewarding read that will appeal to fans of grotesque surrealism. PRAISE FOR JORDAN KRALL "Jordan Krall is one of the best of the next generation of writers looking askance at modern life and able to chart its absurdities and its dangers. His books conjure up uncomfortable visions with a lucid and alienating gaze." - Jeff Vandermeer, award-winning author of THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY "A dark maze of the soul and mirror eyes that kill: horror at its mythological best.” Seb Doubinsky, Author of OMEGA GRAY and GOODBYE BABYLON

About this title

About the Author

Jordan Krall is the author of many books such as THE FALSE MAGIC KINGDOM CYCLE and HUMANITY IS THE DEVIL. He also runs DYNATOX MINISTRIES and its imprints. www.dynatoxministries.com www.dunhamsmanor.com This book’s story will continue in MEDUSA which is planned for publication by Dunhams Manor Press in late 2016.

Review

"Jordan Krall is one of the best of the next generation of writers looking askance at modern life and able to chart its absurdities and its dangers. His books conjure up uncomfortable visions with a lucid and alienating gaze." - Jeff VanderMeer, award-winning author of THE SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY

"A dark maze of the soul and mirror eyes that kill: horror at it smythological best." - Seb Doubinsky, author of OMEGA GRAY and GOODBYE BABYLON
"Jordan Krall's Gorgonaeon is amasterful, episodic psychological foray into the existential dread wrought byfamilial dysfunction, shot through with allusions to Borges' shattered mirrorreflections that both distort and express keen truths, and Ballard's crisp,cool (icy, but Krall is more intimate) stylings. The inverted Escheresquescene-construction opens as venom spat from the mouths of Medusa's heinousheaddress, before slowly dissolving into the grey matter nightmare ofdisorientation and madness...or is this an unflinching reality we'd rather ignorehoned to shocking, pristine perfection? Thought-provoking, mind-bending, andrather brilliant." - John Claude Smith,  Authorof Ridingthe Centipede and Autumn in the Abyss

Edition details

• Publisher: Dynatox Ministries
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692506578
• ISBN 13: 9780692506578
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 98