Factory Town

Russell Carver, an enigmatic and tortured man in search of a young girl gone missing, has come to Factory Town, a post-industrial wasteland of abandoned buildings, crumbling asphalt, deadly characters, hidden secrets and unspeakable depravity. Wandering deeper and deeper into the dangerous, dream-like and darkly mysterious labyrinths in town, Russell stumbles upon clues that not only lead him closer to the missing girl, but to his own troubled past as well. Because in Factory Town nothing is what it seems, no one is safe, and there's no such thing as a clean escape.

From Jon Bassoff, author of Corrosion, comes a dark, gritty and surreal novel that is at once a compelling mystery and an exploration into the darkest recesses of the human soul. Welcome to the haunting, frightening and disturbing experience that is Russell Carver's search for the truth...

Welcome to FACTORY TOWN.

"Factory Town: A hallucinatory descent into an urban hell that rivals Jim Thompson for stark terror. Jon Bassoff is a master of that territory where pulp becomes poetry, crime fiction mates with horror, but this novel very much its own self—an unnervingly individual piece of work." — Ramsey Campbell, Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ancient Images

"By turns brutal and lyrical, shocking and uplifting, Factory Town provides a visceral experience unlike any other novel you’ll read this year. Jon Bassoff is quickly becoming a must-read author in the field of dark fiction." — Allan Leverone, author of Mr. Midnight

"Factory Town is a journeyman's surreal voyage through the very heart of hell. A novel full of a crazed, ugly, vivid, disturbing energy held together by a deft hand. Bassoff is the king of creepy crime-horror fiction." — Tom Piccirilli, author of The Last Kind Words

"Factory Town is the novel Kafka would have written had he lived longer... This is nihilism in its final, apocalyptic, terrible form." — Les Edgerton, author of The Rapist and The Bitch

"Populated with a horrifying mixture of down-and-outs and grand, fabulous personae, Factory Town is like a journey to hell told within a new and startingly creative apocalyptic mythology." — Steve Rasnic Tem, author of Deadfall Hotel and Blood Kin

"Jon Bassoff’s Factory Town reads like a forgotten outtake from Springsteen’s Nebraska, played backwards and piped through the air tube of Flann O’Brien’s safety coffin. It’s a howl out loud and a headfuck supreme, and I loved every word." — Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike and Cry Freedom

"For those of us who love the horror-crime genre, Jon Bassoff is a Godsend. Creepy, poetic, and beautifully dark, Factory Town is an absolutely mesmerizing ride." — John Rector, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Already Gone, Lost Things, and Out of the Black.

"Jon Bassoff has a unique talent for mining heart-breaking humanity from troubled souls stranded in wretched landscapes. His razor-sharp prose cuts to the marrow of a very noir bone. Read him if you dare." — Christopher Ransom, Internationally bestselling author of The Birthing House and The Fading