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Collected
230 pages, Paperback
Published May 28, 2026
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Chris Kelso
73 books208 followersChris Kelso is an award-winning genre writer, editor, illustrator, and musician from Scotland. His work has been published widely across the UK, US and Canada.
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Chris Kelso is one of these authors that people in the know share in the dark alleys of literature, nodding as they mention the titles of his books. It is an author, like me, invisible in full mainstream daylight, but this is where his strength lies: uncompromised, absolutely uncompromised. "Collection" might be the best introduction to this potent and violent drug: short stories assembled like an insane mosaic made of mirror shards and precious stones that intend to cut you deep. However, Kelso is not a real sadist, but rather a very dedicated misanthopist humanist who intends to show his readers the true nature of the soul, that is to say the few diamonds scattered in its bowels, shining in the darkness. Probably the only true genuine disciple of William Burroughs, Kelso is one of the last and the first of the first. To discover him is a blinding revelation, to read him a reassuring anguish and to re-read him a true guilty as charged pleasure. Don't be a square, get this book -- you'll get hooked. You can always trust a Kelso junkie like me.
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