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