We’re delighted to be publishing Claire Hopple’s Take It Personally in February 2025, and to let you know that you can preorder it right here, right now! “Claire Hopple has a light, humorous touch, but there’s no question she means business.” —Lindsay Lerman, author of What Are You? In Take It Personally, …
March 2025 sees the publication of Twilight of the Gods the hotly anticipated second novel by Kurt Baumeister (Pax Americana, Stalking Horse Press, 2017). Baumeister’s radical interpretation o the Loki myth in a recognizably dystopian United States promises to thrill fans of his earlier work and draw a new generation …
D. Harlan Wilson’s brilliant analysis of the Kubrickian psyche, Strangelove Country, will publish with Stalking Horse Press in November 2024! It is the good doctor’s second book with Stalking Horse Press, after the dazzling The Psychotic Dr. Schreber. Here is an introduction to Strangelove Country in Wilson’s own words: “With …
Ansgar Allen‘s fantastic and erudite The Faces of Pluto is one of the titles we are looking forward to publishing in 2024! As publication approaches, The Faces of Pluto is accompanied by a series of short films featuring Ansgar reading from the text, the first of which – Each Valley …
Matthew Binder’s fantastic art world satire Pure Cosmos Club has won NYC Big Book Awards best Humor title award! Not only that, but this latest novel from Binder – our most successful title of 2023 – was a finalist for the American Book Awards humor/satire category. These are well-deserved accolades …
2024 marks 10 years since the founding of Stalking Horse Press by writer James Reich. We have a packed roster of forthcoming titles for 2024 and into 2025, not least new work by poet Robert Gibbons, a third Stalking Horse Press book from the legendary David Ohle, more from Kurt …
October 2023 saw the publication of Michael J. Wilson’s third book with Stalking Horse Press. A Labyrinth was launched with a reading and party at As Above So Below cocktail bar and distillery in Santa Fe, NM. A Labyrinth isn’t just the retelling of Daedalus and Pasiphaë, it’s an astonishing …
Challenging and opening our perceptions of the city, this collection of poems, essayistic prose fragments, and images rounds out Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s tenure as Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2021-2023. “I see mirages—my books, that is, generally speaking begin with collections of riddles, tiny insidious lights, mysterious UFOs and mirages that …
An estranged couple unearth a mysterious artifact in their backyard, setting in motion a series of bewildering events. A lonely software developer takes a position at a shadowy corporation, only to find himself the subject of a new and sinister brand of team training. A window washer mourning the death …
Jarrod Campbell’s bold fiction traverses and examines the spaces and purposes assumed by the gay male, not least his own. The Reason I’m Here departs from standard expectations of queer behavior to subvert these limited perceptions in favor of honest explorations of desire, amnesia, voyeurism, betrayal, physicality, grief, faith, and uncertainty. Gritty, dreamlike, and reminiscent of Hitchcock …
In this biting satire, Matthew Binder takes surreal aim at the poses and pretensions of high art and fashion. With ruthless wit, Binder chronicles the struggles of Paul, an eccentric artist, and his companion dog, a disabled, quiche-obsessed terrier-mix named Blanche. Together they negotiate hilarious scenes of bad parties, bizarre …
The Holly King is a strictly limited edition of 28 poems by James Reich. This publication is only available directly from Stalking Horse Press, and will not be reprinted. “James Reich turns his considerable abilities with word play in his fiction into poetry, and displays a knowledgeable, sometimes devilish ability …
The end of the road for Moldenke? The Death of a Character is David Ohle’s second book with Stalking Horse Press, after City Moon. The Death of a Character is cult author David Ohle’s mordant meditation on the trials of the flesh, of bureaucracy, and tenderness. In the company of and …
1969: Revolution in Mexico! Decades later, charismatic guerrilla leader Lorenzo is living in Europe with a young son. Approached by a German revolutionary organization for his account of the conflict, he struggles to recall repressed memories of violence, absurdity, and tragedy. Lorenzo’s past returns in Seb Doubinsky’s kaleidoscopic Fragments of a …
Jessie Janeshek channels the madcap dead of occult Hollywood, and her ouija board is a synthesizer, summoning Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Marilyn, and Madonna to her mysterious House of Wax. These are daring poems calling on Dracula, drugs, and Dick Tracy; a velvet underground …
Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) came to prominence as one of history’s most famous madmen in the wake of Sigmund Freud’s “Psychoanalytic Notes Upon an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia” (1911). Freud’s study psychoanalyzed Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, a detailed account of the German Judge’s psychotic breakdowns in …
