Halloween special! A “new & improved” deluxe edition of VAMPYR / A CHRONICLE OF REVENGE *plus* the complete GLITCHHEAD, in a single large-format volume!
Equus Press, 31 October 2023, ISBN 978-1-7394310-1-3, 720 pages, 17×24.4cm
A double-barrelled anti-novel of the end times, set in the heart of Golemgrad, from the author of The Combinations… Equus Press presents a new unabridged deluxe large-format edition of these two masterworks of verbovisual writing in a single volume, bringing together for the first time the continuing adventures of Offensia & that nefarious underground organisation, THE Š.V.E.J.K!
SIMULTANEOUSLY verbo-visual collage & heterodox thriller about postmortem becoming, VAMPYR/GLITCHHEAD is a text best read with a breaking fever in the onset of delirium.
“How do you infiltrate a mind & systematically implode it? Read Vampyr.” Ryan Madej, author of Assassin
“Certainly one of the most unique (anti-)novels to come out of the pandemic era, as punctual as it is fang-punctured, considering it was released a mere 6 months after the CDC declared COVID-19 had reached the level of a pandemic, released on All Hallows’ Eve, to be exact, and when it comes to pandemic literature, particularly during the Drumpf regime, it won’t likely be topped anytime soon, especially when we try and fail to enumerate the dull deluge of essays, poems, anthologies, and other works that rehash the same tired thoughts and feelings about this era. […] Armand certainly did not forget this, rather he built upon it while also tearing it down.” George Salis,The Collidescope
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Surely this is a sign? The error is too consistent & gigantic to be ignored. One moment, History is there, replete, like cinema. The next: Void. Where purpose was, now doubt, trepidation. Something must be to blame. We are not speaking of merely vulgar misunderstandings or an emotional ambivalence. Every disappearance can only be considered a murder, caused by a hidden hand. A crime of violent omission. These accusations demand an energy of response, not bands of superstitious dilettantes. The world is not a psychoneurotic disorder. Those still living have good reason not to feel safe from the revenges of the dead, even w/ a sea dividing them. Their taboos are as a mirror held up to a guilty conscience. Originally, all of the dead were Vampyrs. Yet we do not come from the past, but from the future.
“This is porn without erotica. The only true porn would be not to possess other bodies, to not perform under the eyes of a hundred universes but instead would be this sense of horrific wonder where we are threatened to die according to the everlasting word, or sign, and die continually and forever. This is what Armand’s ‘V’ is. Vampyr. A threat to be possible for ever, how beautiful that would become as the cataclysm happens then doesn’t, then does. Evermore. Negligence enlivens our desire. The cataclysm is enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening in a memory so unpleasant that he would gladly relive it.” Richard Marshall, 3:16
“a prepossessing, necessary, perfect book on an impossible love, grinning a toothy grin in blood-rain, running up the cul-de-sac after that one final, delirious, electric ice-cream and proving beyond proof that there will never be an end to the amount of things we can say.” Michael Rowland
*Previous editions of Vampyr & Glitchhead were published by Alienist & Miskatonic Virtual University Press respectively.
LOUIS ARMAND 