Invaginies

Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, and The Couvade, which received a Shirley Jackson Award nomination in 2019. His short fiction appears in publications such as Vastarien, Southwest Review, PseudoPod, Children of the New Flesh, and The Queer Book of Saints. Joe also co-edited the art horror anthology Stories of the Eye. He/They. Find Joe online at horrorsong.blog and on Twitter @horrorsong.

"Joe Koch's new collection Invaginies disturbs and disorients with each turning page, the dread of each new vision escalating until the book fairly throbs in your trembling hands. Koch's language, precise and unyielding, illuminates each cruel moment like flashes of lightning, striking ever closer until the heat, the brilliance, the smell of sizzling flesh envelops you. Like the razor in Un Chien Andalou, each story is honed to a gleaming edge and slices keenly into the reader’s understanding of themselves and the world they thought they knew. This is the darkest art, and Joe Koch is its master." —David Demchuk, award-winning author of The Bone Mother and RED X"Invaginiesis Koch's nastiest and most formally daring collection yet, a glistening tangle of poetic viscera dragged out into the light and impossible to look away from." —Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt"Seductively cerebral. Joe Koch peels away the world you know to show a deeper one you can't unsee. There's no recovering from Invaginies. This book digs into your head and makes you fall in love, even as it eats your brain from the inside out." —Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker award-winning author of Queen of Teeth"I'm awestruck by Joe Koch's nonstop spellbinding, almost paralyzingly inventive and yet propulsive, ultra-focused prose." —Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled Swarm, I Wished, The Sluts"A thought-provoking collection that readers will experience physically, making it a great suggestion for those who like to mix their literary fiction with visceral, lush prose, recounting stories that captivate and discomfort in equal measure." —Booklist"Joe Koch belongs in any conversation featuring the likes of Livia Llewellyn or Michael Cisco, but is incomparable. Dizzyingly inventive, and weird as weird gets, Invaginies will floor everybody." —Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light (Stories)