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

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

“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

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.”

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

“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.

“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