by Ulrich Baer (Author)
A speculative avant-garde queer horror novel that reads like an erotic vampiric nightmare directed by Jodorowsky playing at a '50s drive-in.
Beyond the Planet of the Vampires is a gay pulp horror novel of chance. The narrative erratically loses and regains consciousness during an apocalyptic space invasion of psychic vampires, reaching across intergalactic fathoms in search of future victims.
Smoldering in a social alienation reminiscent of Genet's outlaw anti-heroes, Baer's novel screams with Joycean word play in an entirely new and unique idiom, where theories of Kant are situated with reckonings of identity and postulations on the nature of evil.
On each page, Ulrich Baer creates an enigmatic performance of both philosophical and queer thought, exercised through the rich aesthetic experience of a retro horror film. Beyond the Planet of the Vampires redefines avant-garde in a relentless, generation-defining voice.
Author Biography
Ulrich Baer was born in Georgia and grew up beneath Southern power plants. He received his MFA from Brown University in 2017. Among other books, he has a poetry book with Red Hen (Deer Black Out, 2024), a science fiction chapbook with Essay Press (At One End, 2020), and a full-length book with Apocalypse Party (Midwestern Infinity Doctrine, 2021). He has been included in journals such as FENCE, Baest, and Afternoon Visitor. He loves horses and lives in Paris, or anywhere.