{"product_id":"midnight-self-paperback","title":"Midnight Self - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrian Van Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Van Young beckons readers further into the shifting borderlands of the Gothic and uncanny in his second collection, MIDNIGHT SELF. Space colonists menaced by a grotesque alien creature adapt a grim charter to ensure their survival. An exhausted new mother makes an uneasy discovery when her baby monitor's signal gets crossed with another. An heiress imprisoned in a labyrinth of her own making is forced into an obliterating confrontation with grief. A carnivorous car lot tube man terrorizes a gang of transphobic bullies. An army nurse discovers that war's terrors still hound her in new, chilling forms. Written in the tradition of Angela Carter, George Saunders and Mariana Enriquez, MIDNIGHT SELF explores the dissociation of being human and the humanity of being monstrous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Myths, pop culture, culture wars. A living, monstrous house. Death wearing khakis. Repolarized blood. Mediums. Extinction. MIDNIGHT SELF is a collection of movies to be screened in a theater with one single chair: that is your skull on Van Young steroids. This is the kind of dark, great writing we need to understand our times.\" -Yuri Hererra, author of \u003cem\u003eTen Planets: Stories \u0026amp; Signs Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"MIDNIGHT SELF is an exceptional collection. Every story is perfectly, unnervingly off; every page offered an image or produced a feeling I could not shake. Adrian Van Young is a master of the uncanny.\" -Jac Jemc, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Grip of It\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEmpty Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An outstanding collection that skitters from a strange and gigantic skin thing to an oddly transforming doll, from a house that its owner can't stop building to a house that consumes whoever it wants, from the uprising of the past Civil War dead to the rejuvenation of future semi-artificial animals, without ever giving the reader safe ground to stand on. MIDNIGHT SELF is filled with well-written, provocative terrors, and it is well worth the read.\" -Brian Evenson, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSong for the Unraveling of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Van Young is the author of THE MAN WHO NOTICED EVERYTHING, a collection of stories, which won Black Lawrence Press's St. Lawrence Book Award, and the novel, \u003ci\u003eShadows in Summerland\u003c\/i\u003e (Open Road Media, 2020.) He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eVampire Pool Party\u003c\/i\u003e, a book for children (Madeleine Editions, 2018.) His fiction and non-fiction have been published in \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature's Recommended Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, among other venues. He lives in New Orleans with his family where he teaches American Literature \u0026amp; Creative Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 175\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 8.52 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42690609479743,"sku":"9781625570604","price":26.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/829ef6ec5fff7d4b6d2d0ce2f144b61f_edf5b906-82db-4f34-9d44-6081a93c1da2.webp?v=1764989517","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/midnight-self-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}