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In and Down
by Brett Alexander Savory
An uncanny and disturbing work by a stylish and intelligent writer. File under Original and Startling.
- Ramsey Campbell, author of The Overnight
With its utterly imaginative freedom and instinct for narrative transformation, this unsettling and consistently surprising novel reads like a happy combination of Neil Gaiman and Kelly Link. Savory deserves to make a great impression on both our highly mutable genre and the reading
public.
- Peter Straub, author of In the Night Room
In and Down is a novel of many antecedents but no precedents. The reader's thoughts turn to Thomas Tryon's The
Other, Peter Straub's Ghost Story, and Clive Barker's Weaveworld, even as the reader's feelings are hurtled into dark and delectable places they have never been before.
- James Morrow, author of The Last Witchfinder
A beautifully crafted, sophisticated first novel by an ascendant new writer with near-eldritch ability to see the truly gothic in the lives of children and families. Brett Alexander Savory's In and Down is one of the most stunning and original Canadian literary debuts of the
year.
- Michael Rowe, author of Other Men's Sons
Carnival barkers herald the arrival of Brett Alexander Savory's first full-length novel
In and Down. The annual visit to the fairground brings a sense of excitement and fear in Michael and Stephen, two brothers being raised by their father. Their mother has left the family home years before, and her absence coupled with their father's neglectful abuse have created distorted perceptions in their sons' minds - of the world, of women, and of themselves. In the world of one child, the carnival becomes a powerful backdrop for his internal struggle to find maternal comfort, reprieve from guilt and a sense of self before his tether to reality is lost forever.
Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of
ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, is a Senior Editor at Scholastic Canada, has had nearly 50 short stories published, written two novels, and writes for
Rue Morgue Magazine. In 2006, Necro Publications released his horror-comedy novel
The Distance Travelled. Brett lives in Toronto with his wife, writer Sandra Kasturi. He can be reached through
his website: www.brettsavory.com
