Corpulent Insanity Press

(Cover art by Cyrus Hunter)

Praise:

“A dark carnival of intoxicating delights.  Dowker is one of Australia’s rising talents and a writer to watch.”
–Will Elliott, author of The Pilo Family Circus

“With Phantasy Moste Grotesk, Felicity Dowker has created a nightmarish world that combines the mood of a good old-fashioned horror tale with gruesome freak show imagery.  There is also a violent undercurrent of emotional strife which makes this an impressive and disturbing novella.”
–Jordan Krall, author of Piecemeal June and Squid Pulp Blues

“Once you’ve read this fantastic book, you’ll never look at Ferris wheels the same way again.”
–Bradley Sands, author of It Came from Below the Belt

Reviews:
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“A professional grade story, I’d expect to see this in the Year’s Best listings.”
–Stephen Studach, reviewer for Horror Scope

“My expertise in the horror genre is limited, but it seems to me the most obvious parallel with earlier work would be Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. There’s a great deal of Bradbury’s carnival-and-calliope ambiance to Phantasy, though the horror here has, I think, a harder and more visceral edge.”
–Simon Petrie, reviewer for ASIF

“There is a richness to Felcity Dowker’s prose, a richness and a deeply unsettling wrongness. It’s like biting into a Belgian Chocolate only to have a pus-filled cyst squirt into your mouth instead of creamed praline. And if that image upsets you, then you aren’t the intended audience for Phantasy Moste Grotesk.”
–Paul Mannering, reviewer for ASIF

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(This was a limited-edition chapterbook.  Only 26 copies were available.)