I Transgress: An Anthology of

by Chris Kelso (Editor), Nick Mamatas (Contributor), Dennis Cooper (Contributor )

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. - Georges Bataille

Genres: Anthologies, Short Stories

188 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2019

About the author

Chris 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.

Reviews

[Donald Armfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Transgress is a taste in literature that you chew it out and enjoy or swallow it whole. The wickedness cruel black and white print others may take an offense to, but to read the darkness an author or poet can dig up on a subject and add that transgression spit to it...
There some kind of disturbing magic there, I guess.
Chris Kelso has brought together a handful of indiscretion tongues with their masked stories of antics of transgress wholesome goodness.

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[Ben Arzate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full Review

I Transgress had me excited going in and it didn’t disappoint. It’s an excellent collection of edgy stories from different genres from humor to horror, from traditional to experimental, and from new and lesser-known authors to big name ones. This anthology is a must-have for anyone interested in fringe literature.