Dead Carnival

Fiction. In this novel, by poet and essayist Mark Wallace, a scientist creates gilled human monstrosities that are also avatars of the possibility of imaginative transcendence. Experimentation in language and in the laboratory produce equally vertiginous results. "In these worlds, ideas and narratives flurry madly and wink out like sparks, the dead walk, and the monstrous is never far away. Part Lovecraft, part de Sade, part B-horror movie, part philosophy, DEAD CARNIVAL is a schizophrenic and uniquely American Novel of Ideas"--Brian Evenson "Mark Wallace writes like John Hawkes dreaming of Paul Bowles having a gothic nightmare"--Ron Sukenick. Wallace's HAZE: ESSAYS, POEMS, PROSE and NOTHING HAPPENED AND BESIDES I WASN'T THERE are also available from SPD.Wallace, Mark is the author of 'Dead Carnival ', published 2004 under ISBN 9781880713341 and ISBN 1880713349.