Hey everyone,

Burnt Tongues has been released for just over a month now, and the response has been incredible! Along with positive reviews for the entire collection, I’ve also received messages from several readers who enjoyed (or were emotionally affected by) my piece, Charlie, and I can’t thank those people enough for reaching out. Here’s just a small sample of the buzz that our humble book has been receiving:

Publisher’s Weekly Selection: The Big Indie Books of 2014

“This is a book of spores. These stories, you breathe onto the page and they float up into your mucous membranes, their spiky edges lodging characters and voices in your head that shudder to life when you least expect it. Just when you think you’ve closed the book, it opens up all over again, inside you.”

-Stephen Graham Jones, author

“…Chris Lewis Carter’s Charlie recognizes the tortured cat someone drops off as one he himself abused when it was a kitten… Anyone looking for boundary-breaking tales that also pack a haunting, powerful punch will find hours of entertainment here.”

- Booklist

“Dark, subversive and disquieting fiction for readers ready to go all the way down.”

- Kirkus Reviews

“Chris Lewis Carter, you go sit over there, with Jack Ketchum. “Charlie” made me cry in much the same way that “Returns” and “Red” did. If anybody needs me, I’ll be huddling in a blankie fort with my kitties.”

-The Horror Fiction Review