Clarkwoods: 6 books

The obnoxious 2002 debut of E. Christopher Clark is peppered with “tang and spice,” according to the poet Psychofairy, who also calls Those Little Bastards “completely uncensored and unabridged.” But beneath the dated and occasionally problematic prose is the heart of a fearless and defiant...

The author of the “quixotic and engaging” Missing Mr. Wingfield (BlueInk Review), which Foreword Reviews called “an eye-opening look at the universality of regret,” brings you fourteen short stories which weave the fabulous with the mundane. Slipstream, magical realism, or straight-up science...

The men of All He Left Behind range from the loathsome to the lustful, the lascivious to mischievous. But one thing unites the heroes and villains of these eleven short stories: whether lost or forgotten, the secrets to solving their pasts prove elusive. “Ian” tells the story of a vulnerable...

In the 1990s, the late, great Bradford College put on a series of Bad Poetry Nights for their beleaguered student writers. These fast-paced evenings of literary shenanigans had one simple premise: compose the worst possible poem you could in five minutes or less, using 3-5 absurd words plucked from...

The Seven Wives of Silver is the bloody story of nineteenth-century sociopath and the only person who can stop him: his sister. Haunted by the nightmare of their father’s drowning at sea, siblings Silas and Sarah Silver plunge down separate—but equally sinful—paths. Sarah heads to the...

In this “quixotic and engaging literary tale” (BlueInk Review), E. Christopher Clark “interweaves strong portraits of a mother and daughter for an eye-opening look at the universality of regret” (Foreword Reviews) with “many pleasantly comedic gems for readers to uncover along the way”...