Last Days

Synopsis

intense And Profoundly Unsettling, Brian Evenson’s last Days Is A Down-the-rabbit-hole Detective Novel Set In An Underground Religious Cult. The Story Follows Kline, A Brutally Dismembered Detective Forcibly Recruited To Solve A Murder Inside The Cult. As Kline Becomes More Deeply Involved With The Group, He Begins To Realize The Stakes Are Higher Than He Previously Thought. Attempting To Find His Way Through A Maze Of Lies, Threats, And Misinformation, Kline Discovers That His Survival Depends On An Act Of Sheer Will. last Days Was First Published In 2003 As A Limited Edition Novella Titled the Brotherhood Of Mutilation. Its Success Led Evenson To Expand The Story Into A Full-length Novel. In Doing So, He Has Created A Work That’s Disturbing, Deeply Satisfying, And Completely Original.

the Barnes & Noble Review

since Its Inception In 2008, Underland Press Has Illustrated-by The Small Run Of Superior Books It Has So Far Published-the Value Of Having A Strong And Individual Creative Vision Guiding An Enterprise, In Place Of A Diffuse And Lowest-common-denominator Corporate Consensus.

underland Is The Brainchild Of Victoria Blake, Previously An Editor For The Prose-centric Offerings At Dark Horse Comics. with Modest Capital, Intelligent Publicity, And A Keenly Refined Taste, Blake Has Assembled A Roster Of First-class Fantastical Authors, All With An Eye Toward Bringing The Reader Macabre Monsters And Magic And Men With Nothing To Lose. the Fourth Book In Her Line, Jeff Vandermeer's finch, Has Perhaps Garnered The Most Attention, Due In Part To An Ingenious Diy Booktour Engineered By The Author. but The Other Items In Underland's Catalogue Also Stand Out As Lively, Arresting Publications.

underland's Opening Salvo, Brian Evenson's last Days, Set A Tone Of Uncompromising Experimentation And Audacity. these Yoked Novellas Chronicle The Protagonist's Descent Into Grand Guignol Farce And Madness. kline, A Detective Suffering From A Horrible Wound Incurred During His Investigations, Is Contacted By A Sect That Practices Ritual Amputation. ostensibly, They Need His Detecting Skills. but The End Result Is Kline's Complicity In A Slew Of Esoteric Murders And Enigmatic Mutilations. combining Flavors Of Borges, Ballard, And Monty Python, With Echoes Of the Prisoner, This Transgressive Novel Demands To Be Filmed By The Impossible Tag Team Of Jim Jarmusch And Tod Browning.