Highway B: Horrorfest
By (Author) Brantly Martin
powerHouse Books,U.S.
Archway Editions
22nd March 2023
United States
Paperback
96
Width 124mm, Height 178mm
Highway B: Horrorfestis the first in a 16-book cycle exploring the various dimensions found along Highway B. The stories are transportive and sui generis; a blend of Sci-Fi, speculative fiction and futurism, they provide the same jolt one gets upon first reading Borges, Calvino and Kawabata.
Highway B: Horrorfestis a collection of short stories exploring diagonal dimensions that, to varying degrees, are aware of and influenced by one another. The stories take place on a planetor within the notion of a planet as communal hallucinatory canvasreferred to as B.
Readers are guided through simulation gulags and simulation resorts, introduced to a bestiary, brought into sex parties and brothels that might be myths and might be extinction events, and given a curated history of the tribes, artificial intelligence, religions, iconoclasts, scientific and spiritual illusions that shape these dimensions. All of this is experienced under the influence of various lunar dusts that remove filters onto reality.
Brantly Martin is a novelist and short story writer.
He was the co-founder ofGrey Magazine, a biannual Italian literary, fashion and art book. In a previous life, before moving to Rome then Paris, he worked in New York City nightlife. His first novel,Pillage(powerHouse Books), explores the after-hours underbelly of a no longer existent downtown Manhattan.
His recent fiction explores his pursuit of diagonal dimensions along what he refers to as Highway B. He claims to access these dimensions through both his fiction and other methods.