Robert Kloss

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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In pursuit of the lives wrecked by disease and wracked by cough, How the Days of Love & Diphtheria follows one son who accidentally replaces another, until the family can no longer tell the dead from the living, and the mounds of bodies continue to s...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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Robert Kloss'sThe Alligators of Abrahamis a fever dream built from the fly-strewn corpses of armies, the megalomania of generals, the madness of widows, the fires of mourning, the fury of the poor, the indifference of the wealthy, and the ravenous hi...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary
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In pursuit of the lives wrecked by disease and wracked by cough, How the Days of Love & Diphtheria follows one son who accidentally replaces another, until the family can no longer tell the dead from the living, and the mounds of bodies continue...

• Sep-2015
• / Literary
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Manifest Destiny drives American expansion westward, building an early 19th-century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that frames The Revelator's protagonist: a young orphan named Joseph. Reared on nights spent carousing with drun...

• Oct-2022
• / Horror
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• Oct-2022
• / General Fiction
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This is more ritual than fiction, a subtle and astounding and careful manipulation of language that is nonetheless deeply felt, even deeply wounding. Incantatory and revelatory, Kloss's is the kind of writing that is so vivid as to make you believe y...

• Oct-2024
• / Horror
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The Genocide House by Robert KlossIn The Genocide House-the American-maelstrom-The world-delirium-Villages-slaughtered and burned-Cities eradicated-in atomic flame-Young women lie-yearning-in valleys-incinerated-Dying men-dream of war-murder-Their-dr...