Lovecraft fetish. His tales will quickly grow on you. Read two books and you'll be
addicted." - Carlton Mellick III, author of SATAN BURGER
leave you holding your nose with sticky fingers and wishing you were even half
as demented as Jordan Krall." - Gina Ranalli, author of WALL OF KISS
invisible author of THE OVERWHELMING URGE
Pygmalion] ..... If Aleister Crowley was indeed the incarnation of Satanist Pope
Alexander VI or the magus Eliphas Levi, then Jordan Krall must be
You-Know-Who Redivivus." - Tom Bradley, author of LEMUR
Earls, author of COCOON OF TERROR.
Krall is a splatter-pop sensation. With the advent of Krall on the Bizarro scene, grindhouse
glory has not only returned, it was retransmogrified.” - Cameron Pierce, author of SHARK
HUNTING IN PARADISE GARDEN.
that’s just out-and-out fun. Some of the descriptions stick in your brain for days (a sex
doll with banana-flavored toe jam, anyone?)” - Whitney Lakin, winner of the World
Horror Convention’s GROSS-OUT CONTEST of 2008.
Kevin's cat keeps leaving rubber body parts around their sleazy
apartment, which is located above a porno store. He decides to glue the
pieces together one day and is stunned when the life-size doll comes to life
and says her name is June St. Eclair. They become a couple and spend
countless hours shagging their brains out as Mithra (Kevin's tarot-reading
cat) looks on.
But there's trouble brewing in their skanky little paradise: it seems June's
original owner (Max, a ruthless pornographer) is causing a ruckus in the
smut shop, threatening the owner if he doesn't find his sex doll . . . and
find it soon. When he discovers who may have taken it, Max goes after
Kevin with his three crab-like hitmen and we discover there's a lot more
to June (and Max) than Kevin ever bargained for.
Jordan Krall has penned this novella with the gleeful-abandon of a sex &
feces-addicted teenager on Woodstock-quality LSD. Sure, this is as weird
as you'd expect from an Eraserhead Press release, but certain scenes are
so funny--and our obscure couple so cool--you'll really get lost in the
situations and characters to the point all the background strangeness
becomes an afterthought.
PIECEMEAL JUNE is a fine novella from this up & coming bizarro author
with nice cover art from Jeff Powers.
Kevin is your average loser, living above a porn-shop with his tarot card-reading cat. In addition to
divination, his cat has been bringing home latex body parts, which Kevin soon fashions into a
piecemeal sex doll. Once Kevin has all the pieces glued together, the doll comes to life. Her name
is June, and she is on the run from an evil pornographer.
Piecemeal June is the first novella from Jordan Krall, and Eraserhead Press has managed to snag
this interesting new talent. The book is filled with grotesque imagery of perverted sexuality, yet
this is no mere exercise in exploitation. Kevin is seeking real love and companionship from June,
and Krall’s use of a sex-doll as a representation of his emotional longing is a wonderfully clever
plot device.
Krall’s writing flows nicely, whether he is detailing the sex doll coming to life or crab-human hybrid
assassins. The surrealism and weirdness never overwhelm the sweet sensitivity of Kevin's inner
plight. This story is for the romantic in all of us, while not neglecting the part that craves gore.
Krall is an exciting new voice to arrive on the horror scene. He combines gross-out with occultism
but never forgets that characters are what make a story.
Eraserhead press has consistently published cutting-edge genre works and Piecemeal June
continues in this trend of excellence. If your appetite for horror lately needs satisfying, Piecemeal
June is a tasty small morsel (just under 100 pages) that very well may be just what you’ve been
craving.
Bizarro fiction is a strange, occasionally untenable genre. What makes something weird
enough to be Bizarro? What kinds of scatology are valid? What IS Bizarro? All of these
questions are of a fairly personal and thereby subjective nature. Jordan Krall embodies,
expands and has a rich dialogue with his genre in his novella, Piecemeal June from Eraserhead
Press. Here is a writer that utilizes the tenets of Bizarro with skill and aplomb and a real talent
from worldbuilding that makes him an ideal representative of the genre for the Bizarro
neophyte and an exemplar for the die-hard fan. While I might not go so far as to compare him
to Ovid, as a review elsewhere has, I would say he is a can't miss literary talent who can show
skeptics what Bizarro has to offer.
Fans of the early works of Clive Barker and the paintings of Salvador Dali will have a lot to
appreciate in Piecemeal June's world, a world that is an ideal Bizarro and introduction to the
genre because it is itself the world of scatology. The city of Om Am, ruled by Simon, is a place
with harems, a wise woman who divines out of a well of excrement on her back and harvested
body parts used for grisly and amusing purposes. This world is not just used for fart joke gross
out purposes, but rather to chart out human sexuality and make it into a palpable site, an ideal
stage for an unconventional crime story and a very unusual love story. Kevin, the protagonist
already teeters into the world of the scatological and the sexual by living above a porno store
with an enthusiastic tarot reading cat. When the cat discovers the foot of a most unusual sex
doll, he dips deeper into this world by reconstructing her and finding love with the sex doll he
has constructed, who is very real and sought after by Simon. The conflict that ensues bringing
in an aging boxer, two crab monsters and a sleazy porno director brings the two worlds
completely together.
This chaotic, well wrought and brilliantly paced caper features something the reader wouldn't
expect from either a Bizarro novel or a book that explores the nature of kink and
pornography: warmth and tenderness, components that end up making Piecemeal June a
sublime balance of sacred profane, grimy, beautiful and sickening that could only be found in a
world of gutsy surrealism. Piecemeal June is a great read with strong crossover potential that
rewards a strong stomach and a good sense of humor as only Bizarro fiction can.
SQUID PULP BLUES:
of pure bizarro.” – TOM PICCIRILLI, author of A CHOIR OF ILL
CHILDREN and THE MIDNIGHT ROAD.
with enough nuclear waste to make Chernobyl seem like a giggle. By the time you return,
strange new organs have blossomed within your brain, tentacles have replaced your limbs,
and you couldn't be happier about it. Krall's vision of bizarro is not only dark and full of
mystery, but guaranteed to entertain as well." - JOHN EDWARD LAWSON, author
of Sin Conductor
In Squid Pulp Blues, the place is called Thompson, New Jersey. And here,
you’ll find no shortage of violence, trauma, and more importantly, squid.
The locals may not be friendly. In fact, most of them are psychopathic
assholes. But as long as they stay on the pages where they belong, you’ll
have one bloody good time in their company." – JEREMY SHIPP,
author of VACATION.