Discover the subterranean frontier of The Great Lover

Today we are proud to announce the release of a book that we know has been much anticipated – the sixth novel from International Horror Guild Award winner Michael Cisco, The Great Lover. A many-spired citadel of a novel, The Great Lover has its foundations in an underground of untamed vision, but its architecture is that of poetic rigour. This is a work to make the divisions between genre and literary fiction seem what they are—the preoccupations of a previous century. Discover this new frontier of fiction, for yourself, here.

In his Foreword to the novel, Rhys Hughes poses the question, what can you say about a perfect work of art? Let us quote what some have said about it below:

The latest phantasmagorical offering from Cisco (The Narrator) is a fusion of dark fantasy, literary fiction, and existential horror that revolves around the eponymous character of the sewerman, an undead tramp in search of capital-L Love who can enter into women’s dreams. As he pines for a blind woman named Vera, he also helps a disgraced academic turned prophet to establish a “ptochocratic” cult that wants to create its own reality underground and battle a soul-sucking plague of white noise. The surreal narrative is something like a 400-page T.S. Eliot poem: otherworldly, lyrical, deeply philosophical, and supersaturated with extraordinary imagery and ideas (like the Prosthetic Libido, a golem-like device constructed to house a scientist’s unwanted desire). Fans of stylish and thematically sophisticated weird fiction should seek out this mad testament to Cisco’s visionary genius.

- Publishers Weekly

It seemed as if The Tyrant was the biggest monster Cisco could make, but The Great Lover is now his new masterpiece. Brilliant, light-years beyond … still marauding. He should receive plaudits for conceiving the Prosthetic Libido alone. Cisco has an identity as much as any writer I’ve read

- Thomas Ligotti

Prize Draw for uniquely inscribed copy of The Great Lover

We would also like to announce a prize draw for a signed and uniquely inscribed copy of The Great Lover. To be entered for this draw, please sign up to our mailing list and send an e-mail with the subject heading ‘Great Lover’ to info at chomupress dot com. If you are already on our mailing list, naturally there is no need to sign up again – simply send an e-mail with the ‘Great Lover’ subject heading to the address mentioned. Only one entry allowed per person. Deadline for draw, the 28th of April.