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Coming back briefly to put this here, just so it's somewhere — managed to somehow sneak into The Times under the cover of 'bookseller' reviewing Musgrave's great Lambda alongside ole JGB. First time they've had "straight-up banger" in their copy I'll bet. As you may imagine, the pre-edited reviews were a bit more verbose, and slanted a lot more to trying to get things like 'climate refugees' in there too. But I'll take what I can get.

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Here’s me thinking around the idea of ‘body horror’ through five books over at Queen Mob’s Tea House:

“Body horror tends to deal with the too-much or too-little; with excesses and scarcity of form that test what our conceptions of the functioning body can be. But central to the idea of it, perhaps, and where the real horror lies, is the exposure of our unwillingness to really look at what our bodies are; how they function and how they degrade. Here, in reality, where the greatest body horror story is perhaps reduced to the two word “palliative care”, literature can do what genre films are generally forbidden from doing — to explore themes in a way that’s ill-fitting with their necessarily simple splattery aesthetic. Here, there’s room for tenderness. I’ve chosen five hopefully lesser-read examples of books that capture the body in its transformation, or flowery grotesqueness, or that simply present us with a point to start considering how the body — as we accept it — is in itself already an incongruous combination of disparate forms.”

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New book from us, Oliver Zarandi’s debut collection of corporeal disambiguation, Soft Fruit in the Sun. Ain’t she a beaut?

Available here.

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Delighted to have a short story in this wonderfully designed collection, Like the Sea I Think, from Kunsthalle Cromer and the UEA Publishing Project. Available here. It’s not about plastic seats, perhaps despite first appearances.

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Here's me talking about holes in arms, cameras, lives, time and eyes, in maybe my favourite film — the smacky arthouse horror, Arrebato — for Tank Magazine.

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Performance of Gary J Shipley’s Warewolff! at the estimable Klinker Club, tail end of 2018. Photo courtesy Heidi Heelz.

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Artist-run Gallery and Studios

Commissioned by artist Vanessa Billy to provide text for a publication — Fountain — to accompany her show Future Perfect at Assembly Point, London.

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This Halloween, 5 Occult-leaning Designs from Before Witchiness Became so Hip

Ah, late October. Pumpkins, skeletons, and waiting for daylight saving time to really kickstart the SAD. Halloween is but round the corner, holding an enormous plastic axe and insisting that you give it all your sweets.

Doesn’t that Kulchur photograph nice? Me talking about ‘occult’ design over at AIGA Eye on Design.

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Various press and praise for Gary J. Shipley’s Warewolff

“JG Ballard on crack” — Stewart Home

“Beyond horror or the fictional… these convulsions and reassignments can be thought of as twenty-first century probabilities — those current realities of public dreaming that we accept as our present conditions” — David Toop

ABSENCES AND INHUMANITY: 5 WORKS OF ABSTRACT HORROR at LitHub

Favourite of 2017 — Dennis Cooper

Books I recently Loved — Dennis Cooper

“Warewolff! is a blistering read” — Neon Books

“Shipley has bored a hole into the inner life of a multitude of subconscious minds... The sheer intimacy of strangeness Shipley’s novel conveys is appalling. But it is also uncomfortably familiar... No one likes the sound of themselves on tape" — 3AM

“Shipley is one of the most daring contemporary horror writers, with an enviable command of prose, and has the audacity to go exactly where one doesn’t go... The Warewolff carves itself out with stolen tongues” — Heavy Feather Review

“Horrific and confounding violence. So horrific. So  confounding. So violent. So unique and amazing. All of it” — 11 Amazing Books From 2017, Neon Grisly

“Extraordinary, incantatory fiction in which the contemporary world is both observed and distorted by the feral Lovecraftian consciousness of the book’s own shape-shifting narrator. The more unsettling and uncategorisable the better seems to be the Hexus ethos” — artist Wayne Burrows, Backlit Gallery and Nottingham Writers’ Studio

"Instead of what books can do for me, I’m interested in what books can do to me. And folks, I’m telling you, this shit can be like a drug. I’m talking full-on altered states of consciousness" — Broken River Books

“Its dispersal is the horror of biomorphism: a condition somewhat akin to life that, like Shipley’s alien, ‘discloses its arrangements’ through our language centers. And this is the condition of unbinding: we are spoken by something; we pass into something without the assurance that our hunger is our own” — Enemy Industry

“Shipley's words were cast over us, with the synths growling, initially quietly, underneath... The language and imagery was everything I expected it to be -- vicious, grotesque, transgressive, obscene, and darkly comic” — The Electric Philosopher (review of launch reading)

Readings at Burley Fisher; The Peckham Pelican; The Klinker Club.

Accompanying playlist courtesy of Reckless Records Blog

“This is a book to make a mockery of the Goodreads star rating system, as it's a collection of prose poetry that overturns petty value judgements of 'story' and 'character' and rolls around in the mess on the floor. Warewolff! is experimental horror that's a disquieting read with flashes of sick humour shining through the darkness.” And of course... Goodreads

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Finally my name in rocks — for the good people at AIGA Eye on Design

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Gif for Gary J Shipley’s Warewolff! at Lithub.

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Outer Space: Hexus Journal Pick An Experimental Horror Bakers Dozen at The Quietus

“In grouping films together under stylistic and genre concerns, it’s possible to be gleefully revisionist — if there even is a cannon then it’s one which dispenses the idea of high- and low-brow entirely, positioning the work of Polanski, DePalma and Altman next to the Alan Resnick’s creepypastaish Adult Swim output; Derek Jarman and Maya Deren’s shorts with works that coast on a fizzing layer of subreddit conjecture and ‘midnight movie’ blog posts; Eurosleaze with the Japanese Avant-Garde; Fulci and Bava with Buñuel and Bergman.”

Philippa Snow and I, talking experimental horror.

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Hexus Press on Horror’s Impact on Visual Culture

London-based publisher Hexus Press’ co-founder Thogdin Ripley talks us through five seminal design artefacts from around the dark, spooky labyrinth of the horror genre.

Talking about horror design in out-of-the-way places with AIGA Eye on Design.

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'JG Ballard on crack’ (Stewart Home) — Gary J Shipley’s extraordinary Warewolff!

Hexus Press’ first book proper. Also, bags.

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Press for Hexus Journal vol II

“We’re getting ready for Halloween by sacrificing our staff at the alter of Hexus Journal” ICA Bookshop

“This publication is a treasure to hold and a perfect to read for the Halloween weekend” It’s Nice That

Launch at Ditto Gallery, London, featuring a gallery display of artwork by Sally Wright, film work from Erica Eyres, and a reading of a work by Jon Leon.

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Hexus vol II, featuring Eric Basso, Penny Slinger, Jon Leon, Miles Klee and Madeleine Gobbo, Garett Strickland, Leonard Silverberg, George Grosz, Sally Wright and a bunch of equally great others. You can buy a copy here, while we still have them.

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Press for Hexus Journal vol I

“Truly stylish.” Recommended by Dazed “If Lumpy (from & the Dumpers) went goth and took a creative writing course, this is the kind of thing he'd submit for his final thesis. i.e it's good.” Recommended by the ICA

“Demands not only to be picked up, but also to be read. Cover to cover. Potentially more than once.” Featured in It’s Nice That

Featured in The Quietus

Featured on The Outer Dark podcast

“The publishers have been able to construct the contents of this Journal with such a uniqueness as to cause dread and uneasiness to take the spotlight instead of traditional horror. Through the use of words and pictures the unease of the reader grows as you progress trough the pages of this offering ” And of course... Goodreads