PerVERSEities

by Kurt Newton

Poetry collection published by Naked Snake Press. Cover and interior illustrations by Chris Friend. Limited edition.

"Experience the virgin sacrifice from the monster’s point of view, and receive further driver’s education by learning how to brake for Satan’s progeny when they cross the road. Travel on carnal cruise lines or stay at honeymoon lodges where tentacled creatures make your first night together a sexy one. No matter what direction you flee in Newton’s world is so fundamentally ill that even the mundane becomes a horror of mythical proportions.

Gruesome, violent, sexually depraved illustrations by Chris Friend add a third dimension to this collection. Those with a love of horror poetry will enjoy these perVERSEities from beginning to end." — John Edward Lawson, author of The Troublesome Amputee and Last Burn in Hell

33 pages, Chapbook

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 400 poems and 250 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Germany and Poland. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been seven times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.

Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.

He lives in the northeast corner of Connecticut.