Rule Dementia!

Back in print after a long hiatus Quentin S. Crisps third collection of fiction Rule Dementia! sees the author start to experiment with the form and content of the macabre tale. The Haunted Bicycle is his first attempt to use Japanese I-novel techniques with supernatural subject matter and tales such as The Waiting and Unimaginable Joys are a fusion of cosmic vision and the fey shoe-gazing miserablism of Generation X. Throughout the collection forms a symbolic whimsical bestiary of the modern soul as brimming with unexpected irreducible and oddly specific imagery as a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Informed by a surreal apocalyptic paranoia yet rooted in child-like imagination and sheltered in the lee of unschooled mysticism these early tales together make up a playful scrapbook of despair and hope at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.