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David Peak is the author of The World Below (Apocalypse Party), Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories (Trepidatio Publishing), Corpsepaint (Word Horde), and The Spectacle of the Void (Schism). He lives in Chicago, where he is working on his next novel.

El Espectáculo del Vacío

The Spanish translation of The Spectacle of the Void is now available from Materia Oscura Editorial. The life of this book continues to amaze me. When I first wrote it, I never expected more than a handful of people would read it, and now it seems like a lot of readers find my fiction through my nonfiction. You just never know. I’m super grateful for everyone involved, Gary J. Shipley most of all.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 1,306 ratings · 286 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
Corpsepaint

3.89 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
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The World Below

3.93 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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The Spectacle of the Void

3.91 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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The River Through the Trees

3.80 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Eyes in the Dust

4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Eyes in the Dust and Other ...

4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings2 editions
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Glowing in the Dark

4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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The Destruction Loops

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Museum of Fucked

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009
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Surface Tension

3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Eyes in the Dust by David  Peak
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paranoia and visceral cosmic futility on display in David Peak's work are among the absolute best characteristics of works being published in modern weird horror. Another terrifyingly self aware protagonist sets off o" Read more of this review »
Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha
"I loved Ha's "Alabama Circus Punk" (in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1, and was very excited to come across this. The stories I've read are a kind of dark, open-ended science fiction that address real issues in our messy, broken world; the" Read more of this review »
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“There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.”
Brian Evenson, Fugue State

Daša Drndić
“Memories die as soon as they are plucked from their surroundings, they burst, lose color, lose suppleness, stiffen like corpses. All that remains are shells with translucent edges. Half-erased brain platelets are a slippery terrain, deceptive. One’s mental archive is locked, it languishes in the dark. The past is riddled with holes, souvenirs can’t help here. Everything must be thrown away. Everything. And perhaps everyone as well.”
Daša Drndić, Belladonna

John Hawkes
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”
John Hawkes

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