Angels and Devils

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AngelHousePress and its prose imprint DevilHouse published chapbooks in a limited edition of 50 copies from 2007 to 2018. Here are the works that are available to you if you support the campaign.

Story of Lilith

by Sean Braune

Story of Lilith is an excerpt from an experimental novel called Eros, which retells Romeo and Juliet through a variety of avant-garde constraints. Part Two of Eros tells the story from the “Juliet” character’s perspective—who is named “Lena” here—and is presented as a lipogram that negates the vowels “A” and “E.”

The work is a playful account of the day-to-day life of a young woman. Don’t be surprised to find Virgil and Milton showing up alongside bikinis and Oxycodon, while Sisyphus sings with Björk. In Story of Lilith, you will find amusement for mouth and mind.

Robots vs Kung Fu

by Howie Good

Howie Good’s “Robots vs. Kung Fu” is a collection of dark and delightful prose poems that subvert the real. Good is a close observer of the infinitesimal and the infinite. Within these pages you will encounter the surreal bumping up against the ordinary:  honey-haired frauleins in Nazi bling vs the clock; trees on fire vs anti-crazy pills;   globes crushed by tractors; beasts with seven heads vs sad little funerals in the rain, nagging black flies vs shopping, an angel with brilliant black wings vs school cafeterias. There’s no denying there’s some dark matter here: “What’s been called my heart serves also as a wine glass, a highway, a urinal, a grave.” It would be ham-handed to offer up a general statement about the humour, sadness and absurdity in everyday life, at this point. Better you should read “Robots vs Kung Fu.”

The Tale of the Clam Ear

by Christine Stoddard

The Tale of the Clam Ear is the story of a mermaid and her struggle to accept her deformity. In 20 poems, Christine Stoddard offers a child’s magical rationale for not fitting in. These poems are for anyone who has been told that their body is wrong. They offer ways of coping and articulate feelings of shame, of loneliness and of celebration and love. If you listen closely you will hear the mermaid’s cries.

Valentines

by Tom Walmsley

In these two creepy stories, Walmsley smothers Leacock’s sunshine in black clouds.  This is hardcore contemporary Canadian Gothic, stabbed, burned and soaked in blood.

Imaginary Stories

by rob mclennan

These are tiny stories that turn in surprising ways. They are witty. They are sharp. They are wry with humour. They are full of wonder in ordinary circumstance. In Imaginary Stories, rob mclennan applies his poetic sensibility for minimalism to prose. These tales have a magical allure. 

4PM in Los Angeles

by Steven Storrie

DevilHouse’s latest offering is “4PM in Los Angeles” by former junk yard attendant, Steven Storrie, an American living in the UK. He runs the site “Black Coffee for Breakfast” http://renegadepriest11.wixsite.com/blackcoffeebreakfast  where he conducts bad ass interviews about the end of the world and crimes we wish we’d committed. Storrie is the spawn of Hunter S. Thompson and Henry Miller with a little Bukowski swimming around in his DNA.

A man quits his job from the sanctuary of a dingy bar. A soldier remembers a perfect summer while lost behind enemy lines. Some poor sap arrives to his interview smelling like a fish pond and a strange man watches his neighbours from a window with a chip in the glass. All of them are laced with bitterness, longing and regret. The nagging belief that it was better long ago, before all this, somewhere…

4PM In Los Angeles is a collection of short stories for anyone unadapted to the horrors of modern life. It is for anyone lost and wandering alone. It is for anyone who ever loved a city and was cast out of it. It is for Monday morning Quarterbacks. 

It is for anyone who knows that destruction does not always wait until after breakfast.

DevilHouse Fully Loaded is all the chapbooks published by DevilHouse, including sold out chapbooks and the Tawdry Goat, the sole issue and remaining copy of of a compendium of transgressive literature, featuring the work of Tamara Faith Berger, Bill Brown, Daniel Allen Cox, Remittance Girl & Tom Walmsley.  Much admired authors in Canada & abroad who put the dis in comfort & respect. 

You can choose these three perks as your reward for supporting the campaign or other perks: subscriptions to journals, books, chapbooks and more! Thank you for your support!