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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2013
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 20 titles



  • Everyone gets their message through sometime. Dan Smear is on the run. It won't be long until the Slave State finds him and makes him work in a forced labour enclave for the duration of his pathetic little life. But Smear doesn't know that he has ano...



  • People make the comparison to Burroughs, Bukowski, Dick and Trocci with Chris's work and they're fair. But there are so many other influences here, in deft interplay. Some writers wear their influences on their sleeves-and some, such as Chris Kelso, ...



  • "…part-time hitman/ exterminator, Ignius Ellis's dream is to buy a candy-apple red Nova Supreme. In the process of trying to earn enough cash to make his dream come true he gets sucked into the rough world of Visitacion Valley, SF. When the tenants...



  • You just can’t win.

    You feel it before you see it, The Black Dog - the Cimmerian demon with baleful breath, diminishing the light wherever it tracks…

    …the size of a large calf, its footfalls are silent - the portents of death hidd...



  • 'Dada Hue, dada Tza...surreal grandeur from every corner of Europe's sunken wens. Dark and absurd fiction that penetrates the subcutaneous fat of our psychosphere - writing that curves and bends the branches of the Pluplusch. Welcome to dada bourgeoi...



  • The Slave State: A place where dogs tire of their lovesick masters and compose novels for benign publishers. A place where love and murder are equally important to the development of young men. A place where everyone is a slave to their minds and the...



  • The Slave State: A place where dogs tire of their lovesick masters and compose novels for benign publishers. A place where love and murder are equally important to the development of young men. A place where everyone is a slave to their minds and the...



  • The Director has just completed his magnum opus, going to extraordinary lengths with people's lives and money to make the film he believes will be one of the first significant works in the Slave State's cinematic cannon. Everyone anticipates Klopp to...








  • The Slave State is about to end. Leatherface is racing against the clock to make it back to Wire City in time for Germ’s Funeral, but evil cops, rape gangs and maniacal punk singers are out to screw up his plans......



  • The Slave State is coming to an end. It won’t be coming back. Larry is a comedian searching for his Shakespearean Dark Lady. During this pursuit Larry must cut across an indifferent Northern California wilderness, acquaint himself with the most vio...



  • Juan wakes up in the racist town of Moosejaw after suffering a near fatal snake bite. As he battles for the right to live he begins experiencing vivid nightmares of a symbiotic dream-twin who seems determined to take over complete control of Juan's e...



  • When aspiring and nihilistic film-maker Vincent Bittacker falls in love with mercurial serial-killer Brandon Swarthy they decide to embark upon a bloody journey to re-define cinema and create their own sub-culture - Ultra-Realism...



  • The Folger Variation follows three interconnected lives throughout different strands of time. Pancake: Pancake Patterson is a former jazz musician who spends all his time roaming the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, frequenting abandoned factories an...



  • The Folger Variation follows three interconnected lives throughout different strands of time.Pancake: Pancake Patterson is a former jazz musician who spends all his time roaming the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, frequenting abandoned factories and...



  • Seb Doubinsky was born in Paris and spent part of his childhood in the USA, an experience that indelibly marked him for life. He currently lives in Denmark with his wife and children. He writes fl uently in both French and English and has publishe...



  • Hollywood icon Apollo Calloway has woken up in the unlikeliest of places - rural Ayrshire. A leader of the estate or a scapegoat of fate, Apollo prepares for his ultimate performance...

    Praise for Chris Kelso:

    “Someday soon people ar...



  • My bones feel new, brittle. You won't have heard any apocryphal stories about me because no one seems to know anything about me. My body is a sheet of paper from a worn manuscript, folded into the origami shape of a man. My life has been stuffed i...



  • On today's excursion: bear witness to a realm where transhuman video store-clerks can project their souls at will. Occult Detectives get lost in Lagos. Or simply hop aboard a writers retreat on the good ship, Zarathustra.There's a new vista for e...






  • Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a series of short films that Cronenberg directed in the 1960s and 70s, m...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Chris Kelso has published 20 books.

Chris Kelso does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Children of the New Flesh The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Chris Kelso, A Message from the Slave State, was published in March 2013.

No. Chris Kelso does not write books in series.