Clash Books and I have sent early copies of INVAGINIES out to a few friends and authors I admire. Here’s some of the kind words they’ve shared so far:
“Seductively cerebral. Joe Koch peels away the world you know to show a deeper one you can’t unsee. There’s no recovering from Invaginies. This book digs into your head and makes you fall in love, even as it eats your brain from the inside out.”
– Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth
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“Joe Koch belongs in any conversation featuring the likes of Livia Llewellyn or Michael Cisco, but is incomparable. Dizzyingly inventive, and weird as weird gets, Invaginies will floor everybody.” – Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light (Stories)
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“Invaginies is Koch’s nastiest and most formally daring collection yet, a glistening tangle of poetic viscera dragged out into the light and impossible to look away from.” – Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt
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“Joe Koch’s new collection Invaginies disturbs and disorients with each turning page, the dread of each new vision escalating until the book fairly throbs in your trembling hands. Koch’s language, precise and unyielding, illuminates each cruel moment like flashes of lightning, striking ever closer until the heat, the brilliance, the smell of sizzling flesh envelops you. Like the razor in Un Chien Andalou, each story is honed to a gleaming edge and slices keenly into the reader’s understanding of themselves and the world they thought they knew. This is the darkest art, and Joe Koch is its master.” – David Demchuk, award-winning author of The Bone Mother and RED X
If you like weird books that eat your brain and envelope you in sizzling flesh, this one’s for you.
Pre-order INVAGINIES coming June 2024
Invaginies is an invasion, it is a perception that is bodily and transcendent creating holes, paths, or pockets of alternate truth—and not always voluntary—enlightenment.
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