Michael Rowe is the author of Enter, Night (CZP) and has received the Lambda Literary Award and the Spectrum Award. He was a finalist for the International Horror Guild, Sunburst, Aurora and National Magazine Awards. Clive Barker has lauded Rowe for "changing the face of horror" with his Queer Fear anthologies.
Praise for Michael Rowe "Rowe's tale of teenage anguish and
loneliness (October) is an exquisitely told cautionary tale, rich
in visceral images of horror and the erotic."
--Vince Liaguno, editor of the Bram Stoker Award-winning
Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet "October is the
kind of horror novel a lot of adults needed when they were kids.
Michael Rowe understands that while it gets better for some people,
not everyone can afford to sit back and wait if they want to
survive. A powerful and powerfully frightening tale about making
hard choices in the name of survival, and what those choices cost.
Because becoming who you are really means making a deal with the
Devil. And sometimes, the Devil is the only one who really
understands."
--Bracken MacLeod, author of Stranded and 13 Views of the Suicide
Woods "Michael Rowe's talent shines through in this terrifying
story of black magic, social persecution, and desire gone
horrifically wrong. Readers will immediately identify with the
story of Mikey Childress, and they'll hold on for dear life as
Mikey's search for acceptance and a dream of love drag them across
a jagged terrain of brutality and indifference. With October, Rowe
taps into the primal terrors of a teen's life, exploring the
loneliness and misery of an outcast who finds his only salvation in
a vicious, dark place."
--Lee Thomas, Lambda Literary Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning
author of The German and Down on Your Knees "[Wild Fell is a]
superb ghost story that evokes terrors both ancient and modern, and
delivers us to a place of profound fear."
--Clive Barker "[A] major new talent. Michael Rowe is now on my
must-read list."
--Christopher Rice "[Wild Fell] by Canadian author Michael Rowe
fulfills the Hobbesian ideal of a haunted house novel: nasty,
brutish and short. Also, elegant. With more than a little
meta-fictional self-awareness--another trope of the haunted house
novel post-1820, when the genre was already centuries old--Rowe
tells the story of damaged ingénue Jameson Browning, who purchases
the titular mansion on a lake-locked outcropping called Blackmore
Island after an accident which puts him in possession of a sizable
cash settlement. The ghosts are also real in Rowe, this time in the
visage of Rosa Blackmore, a spectral teenager who makes known her
presence in grim, strobic flashes around the estate. And yet, as in
all the best haunted house stories, the specter in Wild Fell is
more than just that; it's a powerful human emotion made flesh--or
un-flesh, as the case may be. While over it all loom the spires of
Wild Fell: dwelt in by Jameson, dwelling in him."
--Electric Lit "Michael Rowe writes like a storyteller, so
seamlessly that the words disappear under your skin."
--Susie Moloney for CBC Manitoba
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