Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson is an American author whose horror fiction and dark speculative fiction are among the most formally sophisticated in contemporary genre writing. His stripped, minimalist prose renders moral ambiguity and violence with disturbing clarity. He has won multiple Shirley Jackson Awards and International Horror Guild Awards.
Works
- Last DaysCollection of minimalist horror stories marked by psychological unease and strange transformations
- The Open CurtainNarrative puzzle about a man investigating a historical murder connected to his own descent
- Fugue StateNovella about a woman experiencing identity dissolution and unreliable perception of reality
- A Collapse of HorsesCollection of minimalist stories exploring bodily horror and psychological alienation
- Song for the Unraveling of the WorldConnected stories depicting a society coming apart through violence and moral unraveling