Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty

A dude jumps out of a window; Halloween goes to Hell; a junk-sick redhead ransacks a wallet; a school teacher’s habit of leaving drawers open rattles her obsessive compulsive husband; a gory melodrama unfolds as a self-absorbed mother and her sadistic daughter vie for the love of a handsome con artist; two losers conjure bloodlust fantasies to pass the time; a severed body part resurrects to claim vengeance against a cunning, materialistic witch; a trailer park love triangle reaches its drunken precipice at a Sunday barbecue—just a few of the sometimes good, sometimes bad, and sometimes dirty attractions found in Brian Alan Ellis’s latest, aptly titled story collection, where bearded women, bloody tampons, online dating debacles, ornery waffle waitresses packing pistols, drunk Harry Dean Stanton look-a-likes dressed as Santa Claus, floating Mickey Mouse T-shirts, and lawn gnomes on fire all cast a harrowing glow!

You can now PRE-ORDER the digital version of my new story collection at a special price, which means you can buy it now for half-off the regular price and on Friday, February 13 it will magically appear on your Kindle or phone or whatever the hell thing you use to read shit on. Strangely, it will also be auto-delivered to the Gameboy you had in 5th grade, as well as your younger sibling’s Etch A Sketch you broke but lied about breaking that same year. Magic realism. 

You can also ENTER TO WIN the paperback on Goodreads! 

Check out the OFFICIAL BOOK TRAILER, directed by Andrew Seward and featuring music by Strange Lords:

Some cool-ass people blurb’d the book:

“Hilarious and anguished, [this book] slashes beautifully through the surface layers of humanity—grinding into those deep crevices of our exquisite inadequacies. Not to be missed.”

—Meg Tuite, author of Bound by Blue

“Engaged, wise, suspenseful and exuberantly melancholy, [this book] skewers the underbelly of society, forging a path through darkened alleys and soulless, never-ending nights. [Ellis’s] flawed characters have secrets and fantasies, reckless hearts, and sharp tongues which reveal the messiness of life, family, and love in its myriad complex forms. A pointillist masterpiece.”

—Robert Vaughan, author of Addicts & Basements

“Full of jokes and woe, sorrow and exuberance, [this] is the kind of book you could accidentally drop out a thirty story window and it’d bounce back up into your hands for you to gladly read again. In short, all the elements you’ll need to fuel your word rocket.”

—Bud Smith, author of F-250

“If most of the current literary landscape resembles a room full of hipsters trying to be witty, [Ellis] is the guy sitting in a corner, giggling to himself as he caresses the knife in his pocket and outwits everyone without uttering a word. He is funny and weird and dangerous, and [this book] is his manifesto: a collection of sharp, sad, hilarious oddities that bring their own flask, violence, and STDs to the party, inviting you to do a few lines of blow off the toilet in the bathroom.”

—Gabino Iglesias, author of Gutmouth

Available 2/13/2015