The Polycrates history tour starts here

From the author of Metrophilias and Unpleasant Tales, Brendan Connell, comes another consignment of finely-tuned unpredictability. We are most pleased to announce the official release of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children. Metrophilias took us to 36 cities across the world in a psychogeographical examination of sexual mania. The Life of Polycrates offers us another grand tour, this time through the living ruins of human history, and the guiding passions in the lives of exceptional people, both famous and obscure. These eleven tales form a collection of irrepressible depravity worth celebrating in song. To get yourself a ticket for the maniacal history tour, pick up a copy of the book here.

Here is what others have to say of the work of Brendan Connell:

With the yellow flag of Neo-Decadence lofted high, Connell exhumes the corpse of Mother Image and heaves it rank and rotting onto the tidy flowerbed of realist fiction.

- Justin Isis

Every generation throws up a few genuine Masters of the Weird. There simply is no hyperbole in the statement that Brendan Connell is a member of this elite group right now, perhaps the most accomplished of them all.

- Rhys Hughes

Prize Draw for unique commemorative copy of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children

We would also like to announce a prize draw for a signed and uniquely inscribed commemorative copy of The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children. To be entered for this draw, please sign up to our mailing list and send an e-mail with the subject heading ‘Polycrates’ 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 ‘Polycrates’ subject heading to the address mentioned. Only one entry allowed per person. Deadline for draw, the 6th of April.