Eugene Marten

• May-2022
• / Psychological Suspense
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A harrowing, intense, powerful new novel that reads like a classic, from one of the great writers of his generation.Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner’s daughter, touches greatness f...

• Nov-2013
• / Historical
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A disturbing, darkly funny fictionalization of the life of Fred A. Leuchter, the garage tinkerer turned execution authority who became a darling of the neo-Nazi movement, and subject of the Errol Morris documentary, Mr. Death.He comes to fix your pho...

• Jul-2010
• / Gothic
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"Praise for Eugene Marten''sWaste:When a poet pal had put a copy ofWaste into my hands, I right away went nuts. . . . Here, said I, in wild proclamation, is one for history and a half.""- Gordon LishFirework is the story of a man who, though ill-equi...

• Sep-2008
• / Literary
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A spare and chilling account of the day-to-day experience of Sloper, a janitor in a big-city office building, WASTE explores the import of the discarded--for those who generate it, those who dispose of it, and those who are themselves discarded. From...

• Apr-2000
• / Literary
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"Marten''s powerful novel focuses on a man trying to put the shards of his life together... Fans of Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Thompson, in particular, should take note."" - Roberta Johnson, Booklist (starred review) Eugene Marten''s In the Blind tak...