{"product_id":"chaindevils-paperback","title":"Chaindevils - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake heed, and smoke what you got...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the far-distant post-apocalypse of rural America, an embattled company of chainsaw-wielding hillbillies are set forth by Her Majesty of the Ozarks on a quest for precious methamphetamine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeset by religious zealots, militarized sex workers, and their own addictions, the CHAINDEVILS slash their way across the drug-addled border between Missouri and Arkansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbrace the chaos with Matthew Mitchell's debut novella, which tears off pieces of horror, grimdark fantasy, dying earth fiction, and drug literature, and smashes them together in hazy, mud-coated ways unlike anything you've ever seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mitchell pens a wild extrapolation of a post-apocalyptic North American Landscape\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eby way of \u003cem\u003eThe Road\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWarhammer 40k, \u003c\/em\u003e and pulp westerns. \u003cem\u003eChaindevils \u003c\/em\u003eis hard, grisly fare.\" - Laird Barron, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wind Began to Howl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beneath the chainsaws, drugs, and miscreants - Mitchell has created a story about Seachers. Folk that reflect the worst and the best in us, trying to find answers to questions we're too afraid to ask.\" - Adam Smith (Eisner Award-Nominee, \u003cem\u003eLong Walk to Valhalla\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gory and raucous weird fiction, \u003cem\u003eChaindevils\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most outrageous stories I've ever read. If you'd like a taste of \u003cem\u003eA Clockwork Orange\u003c\/em\u003e with a Southern accent, \u003cem\u003eMad Max\u003c\/em\u003e on meth, and \u003cem\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/em\u003e with chainsaws, then you'll want to dive into this vivid and original desolation envisioned by Matthew Mitchell.\" - Ivy Grimes, author of \u003cem\u003eGrime Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mitchell gathers the haunted cultural imagination of the Ozarks together with the bloody history of the US's internal border wars and the cultlike stature of their figureheads and squeezes until it all reaches critical mass and burns through the fabric of history into a desolate future. Meth-fueled chainsaw warriors and gilded femdom valkyries and giggling hooded cultists pursue truly shocking violence according to a logic we can only grasp the edge of. \u003cem\u003eChaindevils\u003c\/em\u003e festers in the brain like an eldritch hangnail.\" - Mark Jaskowski, author of \u003cem\u003eMutant Circuit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Heartbeat Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It would be a mistake to call this tale a descent into Hell. We're already \u003cem\u003ein\u003c\/em\u003e Hell from the first page, the first \u003cem\u003eline\u003c\/em\u003e...No depravity is left unplumbed. No despair left unearned. No doom left unmanifested. You want an army of chainsaw-wielding meth-addicted cannibals? Bizarre masked and horned cultists? Jewel-encrusted monarchist warrior women? It's all here, and more besides. It takes a pure vision and a \u003cem\u003elot\u003c\/em\u003e of guts to write something this balls-to-the-wall, and Matthew Mitchell has both. Who knows what new filth-encrusted hells he'll drag us to next, but I'm damn sure going to let him.\" - Matt Neil Hill, author of short fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42093369557127,"sku":"9781951658335","price":17.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/972c0ec4b25a36532a0e41f8431b4f60.webp?v=1732310217","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/chaindevils-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}