Death at the Flea Circus
Fiction (2011), 168pp. An amazing, surreal novel.
In a 1960s California beach town, someone is murdering wayward girls visiting from Kansas. Staying at the same hotel as the girls is the enigmatic Mr. Barker, who is either a college student spending his days poolside, a Victorian British detective investigating the crimes, a vagrant wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of tools, a mystic poet, or the killer himself. Or are the unfolding events merely the sinister daydream of a nameless man sitting in an air-conditioned cafeteria, watching a waitress wipe down the tables? In this surreal comic novel, people, places, and possibilities leak from one century into another, and identities run together like warm blood and sea water. Written forty years ago and left forgotten in a closet, this newly discovered novel is unlike any other you've ever read.
Limited to an edition of 260 copies:
200 Paperback Copies – Perfect bound with Letterpress printed dustjacket. $15
50 Hardcover copies – 1/4 bound in vellum over boards. Signed by the author. $40
10 Deluxe “Bureau” Edition. Contains both the signed hardcover and signed paperback copies. In large oversized clamshell that includes a drawer that will contain painting, manuscript copies, hand written poems, as well as items mentioned in the novel, including some that are over 180 years old. A massive undertaking and bay far the most deluxe edition that we have ever published.
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David Barker
David Barker has been a hardcore Lovecraft fan since his college days. He began writing short horror fiction in the mid-1980s, publishing widely in that era's small-press magazines, and edited three of his own Lovecraftian journals before leaving the field in the '90s to focus on literary fiction and poetry. In 2011, his comic surreal novel, Death at the Flea Circus, was published, and in 2012, David returned to horror with the publication of a serialized novel, Electro-Thrall Zombies. David lives in Oregon with his wife and has four grown daughters and two grandsons.
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