| Latest Novels |
"Herein lies the danger of the
practice... If the mesmerist is
corrupt of heart, foul of mind,
and diseased of soul, the vital
fluid which he projects will be
tainted..."
When Philip K. Dick found himself
suddenly transported to New
Testament Syria, he must have run
into his namesake, Philip the
Deacon. VITAL FLUID reverses the
time flow, and brings the first
Philip to the twenty-first
century, along with his
transmigrationally entangled
nemesis, Simon Magus.
They've returned as rival
hypnotists, staging an
increasingly bizarre series of
shows across America, mesmerizing
teenagers in an Indian
reservation, a Mormon
polygamist's military academy and
a Columbine-like high school.
practice... If the mesmerist is
corrupt of heart, foul of mind,
and diseased of soul, the vital
fluid which he projects will be
tainted..."
When Philip K. Dick found himself
suddenly transported to New
Testament Syria, he must have run
into his namesake, Philip the
Deacon. VITAL FLUID reverses the
time flow, and brings the first
Philip to the twenty-first
century, along with his
transmigrationally entangled
nemesis, Simon Magus.
They've returned as rival
hypnotists, staging an
increasingly bizarre series of
shows across America, mesmerizing
teenagers in an Indian
reservation, a Mormon
polygamist's military academy and
a Columbine-like high school.
Damnation and Salvation in the
American Food Services Industry!
Spencer Sproul is a would-be
serial-killing bus boy. But he
can't manage to murder, injure, or
even scare anybody. It's not for
lack of trying. He sublimates on
the job and becomes a rising star of
the family restaurant
business.
Spencer learns that a family
restaurant can be an instrument of
torture, too. If the food, music,
decor and waitress uniforms are
"ratcheted up" to just the right
levels, the place can grate
subliminally on people's nerves, and
stimulate their masochistic
tendencies. Customers come
flocking, as to a Hannibal the
Cannibal movie.
The Better Business Bureau takes
notice. But, before Spencer can
take his seat of honor at the
Merchant of the Month Award Banquet,
he must bumble his way past a
pederastic restaurant critic, a
trash-talking sex worker, a
cellulite-worshiping convenience
store clerk, and a police force
filled with homophobes, overeducated
commies and greedy homicide
detectives.
LEMUR is an all-American success
story!
American Food Services Industry!
Spencer Sproul is a would-be
serial-killing bus boy. But he
can't manage to murder, injure, or
even scare anybody. It's not for
lack of trying. He sublimates on
the job and becomes a rising star of
the family restaurant
business.
Spencer learns that a family
restaurant can be an instrument of
torture, too. If the food, music,
decor and waitress uniforms are
"ratcheted up" to just the right
levels, the place can grate
subliminally on people's nerves, and
stimulate their masochistic
tendencies. Customers come
flocking, as to a Hannibal the
Cannibal movie.
The Better Business Bureau takes
notice. But, before Spencer can
take his seat of honor at the
Merchant of the Month Award Banquet,
he must bumble his way past a
pederastic restaurant critic, a
trash-talking sex worker, a
cellulite-worshiping convenience
store clerk, and a police force
filled with homophobes, overeducated
commies and greedy homicide
detectives.
LEMUR is an all-American success
story!
| Raw Dog Screaming Press Advocate review Tom YouTubes it Tom discusses LEMUR with Israeli journalist Barry Katz |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
This wizard war climaxes at an East L.A. ghetto community center full
of gang-bangers. Things get so far out of hand that mercenaries from
the Department of Homeland Security must be called in.
On the way, Philip and Simon make a reincarnational pit stop in
nineteenth-century Europe. They are embodied in another pair of
wonder-workers, actual historical figures from the glory days of
mesmerism, who entranced lions for Queen Victoria and rendered altar
boys malleable for Pope Pius IX.
Vital Fluid is inspired by the uncanny performances and fascinating
life of John-Ivan Palmer, the top stage hypnotist in America today, who
says--
"Vital Fluid is a masterpiece. There are no words to describe the eerie
dream this book is to me."
of gang-bangers. Things get so far out of hand that mercenaries from
the Department of Homeland Security must be called in.
On the way, Philip and Simon make a reincarnational pit stop in
nineteenth-century Europe. They are embodied in another pair of
wonder-workers, actual historical figures from the glory days of
mesmerism, who entranced lions for Queen Victoria and rendered altar
boys malleable for Pope Pius IX.
Vital Fluid is inspired by the uncanny performances and fascinating
life of John-Ivan Palmer, the top stage hypnotist in America today, who
says--
"Vital Fluid is a masterpiece. There are no words to describe the eerie
dream this book is to me."
The Bomb Baby was in Hiroshima, in
utero, at the moment of the glamorous
detonation. As a result of prenatal
exposure to gamma rays, he is tiny
and mentally deficient, but his
physical vigor is unimpaired.
Living on a makeshift raft on the
river that runs through town, he only
comes ashore to disrupt high-tone
weddings at Hiroshima Cathedral. It’s
a hobby for him. He disappears soon
after spoiling a Yakuza wedding.
This doesn’t sit well with the
leading lights of the expatriate
community, who’ve adopted the bomb
baby as a mascot. They dispatch Sam
Edwine, a reluctant and inefficient
American slob, to search "Boom
Town's" sordid and musty places, of
which there is a wide assortment...
"Tom Bradley is one of the most
misunderstood and ill-appreciated
master-writers on the planet... This
spectacular literary Lucifer, star of
the East, talks like Hume might be
imagined to have spoken to the comely
Grisettes of pre-Revolutionary Paris
(Well, here we are, young ladies!
Here we are!)..."
--Jesse Glass, author of The Lost Poet
utero, at the moment of the glamorous
detonation. As a result of prenatal
exposure to gamma rays, he is tiny
and mentally deficient, but his
physical vigor is unimpaired.
Living on a makeshift raft on the
river that runs through town, he only
comes ashore to disrupt high-tone
weddings at Hiroshima Cathedral. It’s
a hobby for him. He disappears soon
after spoiling a Yakuza wedding.
This doesn’t sit well with the
leading lights of the expatriate
community, who’ve adopted the bomb
baby as a mascot. They dispatch Sam
Edwine, a reluctant and inefficient
American slob, to search "Boom
Town's" sordid and musty places, of
which there is a wide assortment...
"Tom Bradley is one of the most
misunderstood and ill-appreciated
master-writers on the planet... This
spectacular literary Lucifer, star of
the East, talks like Hume might be
imagined to have spoken to the comely
Grisettes of pre-Revolutionary Paris
(Well, here we are, young ladies!
Here we are!)..."
--Jesse Glass, author of The Lost Poet
R. V. Cassill called Acting Alone
"a vast maelstrom spun from an
imagination of superlative
dimensions." Stanley Elkin found
this novel to have "an incredible
energy level."
The book they are describing opens
at a cow college in Kansas,
proceeds to holiday doings in
Kiev, Nebraska, home of a
disturbed young marine recently
released by the Revolutionary
Guards in Iran, then spirals
toward Cheyenne Mountain, home of
NORAD (the North American Air
Defense Command) and the convent
of the Servant Sisters of Saint
Willibrord of Perpetual Adoration.
There a dangerous plot spun by a
renegade Mormon threatens to upset
the protagonist's plans for
material and marital well-being.
Now available in this second
edition, featuring new cover art
by Nick Patterson.
"a vast maelstrom spun from an
imagination of superlative
dimensions." Stanley Elkin found
this novel to have "an incredible
energy level."
The book they are describing opens
at a cow college in Kansas,
proceeds to holiday doings in
Kiev, Nebraska, home of a
disturbed young marine recently
released by the Revolutionary
Guards in Iran, then spirals
toward Cheyenne Mountain, home of
NORAD (the North American Air
Defense Command) and the convent
of the Servant Sisters of Saint
Willibrord of Perpetual Adoration.
There a dangerous plot spun by a
renegade Mormon threatens to upset
the protagonist's plans for
material and marital well-being.
Now available in this second
edition, featuring new cover art
by Nick Patterson.
Kane X. Faucher has written Ezra
Pound back to life. By various
alchemical means, the latter performs
the same favor for Henry Miller,
Hunter Thompson, Charles Bukowski,
Antonin Artaud and Louis-Ferdinand
Celine. These authors are dumped in
the present, and each is caused to
suffer symbolic retribution worthy of
Dante's Inferno, based on the
particular excess that came to define
his literary persona.
Celine returns with no memory of the
French language. Bukowski is cursed
with an inability to drink alcohol.
Artaud behaves insanely, but no one
seems to notice except for teenagers
who think it's "awesome." Miller has
erectile dysfunction, while Thompson
is expected to write legit journalism.
Each of the authors speaks in his own
voice--and this is the amazing thing,
because Kane X. Faucher is without a
doubt the greatest literary parodist
in existence. His Celine, in
particular, is uncanny to the point
of making one superstitious at times.
Pound back to life. By various
alchemical means, the latter performs
the same favor for Henry Miller,
Hunter Thompson, Charles Bukowski,
Antonin Artaud and Louis-Ferdinand
Celine. These authors are dumped in
the present, and each is caused to
suffer symbolic retribution worthy of
Dante's Inferno, based on the
particular excess that came to define
his literary persona.
Celine returns with no memory of the
French language. Bukowski is cursed
with an inability to drink alcohol.
Artaud behaves insanely, but no one
seems to notice except for teenagers
who think it's "awesome." Miller has
erectile dysfunction, while Thompson
is expected to write legit journalism.
Each of the authors speaks in his own
voice--and this is the amazing thing,
because Kane X. Faucher is without a
doubt the greatest literary parodist
in existence. His Celine, in
particular, is uncanny to the point
of making one superstitious at times.
The quincunx of notorious authors gives Epigonesia a kind of literary
star-power. Meanwhile, Tom has recruited himself to provide commentary
in an elaborate substructure of footnotes. He seems to have discovered
the manuscript on a rickety old laptop which Faucher left behind upon his
tragic suicide.
Epigonesia turns out to be an extended suicide note. Via Tom's
footnotes, the late Kane X. Faucher's downfall is explicated, also
narrated like a mystery story with rising action, climax, denouement--all
that tight structural stuff one would never expect to be couched in
scholarly apparatus.
The spoiler comes at the end of the book. Nested in the epilogue is
another narrative tier. The pharmaceutical company Metapharm has been
testing a suite of literary- and literacy-based drugs. Faucher and
Bradley have guinea-pigged themselves in a clinical trial.
This results in the collaborative working of the text, and explains the
increasing paranoia in the footnotes, as the suicide note develops into a
real-time personal attack, mounted from the grave by Faucher, upon
annotator Bradley.