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About Me

Quentin S. Crisp was born in 1972 in North Devon. His parents, at the time ignorant of the other Quentin Crisp (nee Dennis Pratt) unwittingly gave their child the naked civil servantâ€™s assumed name. It would, therefore, be true to say that Quentin S. Crisp is the real Quentin Crisp.

He showed an interest in storytelling from a young age, dictating stories to his father before he could actually write. Since leaving school he has worked for Wolf and Water Theatre Company , played bass and written lyrics for a band called The Dead Bell , studied Japanese language and literature at university in England and Japan and taught English in Taiwan.

His first collection of stories, The Nightmare Exhibition , came out in 2001. The second, Morbid Tales , came out in 2004. A third, Rule Dementia! , in which the author champions a new mode of literature called â€˜demented fictionâ€™, was released in 2005. A novella called Shrike is forthcoming from PS Publishing . Read an interview here . Quentin S. Crisp is also available for weddings and childrenâ€™s parties, and funerals.

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My Interests

Writing. Reading. Gothic literature. Japanese literature. Tea. Japanese tea utensils. Photography. Words. Going for a walk in the autumn twilight. Music. Synaesthesia. Chinese landscape painting. Daoism, Taoism, or however you choose to pronounce it. Chinoiserie. Pin-up art. Obscurity. Dreams.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is a real person willing to communicate, who also doesn't mind if I can't answer promptly sometimes because I am a real person too, with a life beyond a computer screen.

Music:

David Bowie. Momus. The Smiths. Morrissey. Philip Glass. Kate Bush. Tama. The Cure. Celtic Frost. Nick Drake. Ian Dury. Joanna Newsom. Joy Division. Smog.

Movies:

Freaks. Withnail and I. Farewell, My Concubine. Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters. The Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (the version with Donald Sutherland). Kwaidan. Tampopo. Spider. eXistenZ. Ghost World. Ringu. The Wickerman (Robin Hardy version).

Television:

Six Feet Under. Doctor Who. Catterick. Blakes 7.

Books:

In terms of author, Thomas Ligotti, Nagai Kafu, William Buroughs, Mishima Yukio, H.P. Lovecraft, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Mark Samuels, Dazai Osamu, Higuchi Ichiyo, Mary Shelley, Philip Larkin, Kaneko Misuzu, Okakura Tenshin

Heroes:

David Bowie. Morrissey. Nagai Kafu. Higuchi Ichiyo.

My Blog

Shrike Cover

I’ve just noticed that the cover of Shrike has now be completed, and can be viewed at the following link: http://news.pspublishing.co.uk/2008/03/29/finished-cover-shr ike-by-quentin-s-crisp/ &nbs...
Posted by Quentin on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:34:00 PST

Shrike

Preliminary pre-order information for my novella, Shrike, has recently gone up on the website of the publisher, here. The introduction is by Lisa Tuttle. I have read it, and am extremely pleased with ...
Posted by Quentin on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:30:00 PST

Susuki research

Hello all. This is a call for help. I am currently writing a novel called Susuki. I have run up against a wall, and need to get some facts straight in order to avoid a crash and burn situation. I've t...
Posted by Quentin on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:19:00 PST

Chomu - the Entomology of the Word

I've just added a new piece to Chomu, here.
Posted by Quentin on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:21:00 PST

Chomu

Justin and I have launched or founded or otherwise instigated a new blogzine, called Chomu. Just in case my HTML is not working, the URL is here: http://sleeping-butterfly.blogspot.com/...
Posted by Quentin on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:52:00 PST

Tawara Machi

A while back I was given the opportunity to translate some of Tawara Machi's poems for a magazine. As part of the digitisation of the Southbank Centre Poetry Library, those translations are now availa...
Posted by Quentin on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:50:00 PST

Eyes still bad

My eyes are still bad. This looks like being a long-standing problem with me and computers until the day I can actually afford to see some sort of medical specialist or something, and probably even af...
Posted by Quentin on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:46:00 PST

We've Finished Our News

The following is an entry I posted today on my main blog: Hello. It's possible that someone out there is wondering why I've been silent for such a long time, so I feel like offering some kind of expl...
Posted by Quentin on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:00 PST

The End of the Holocene

"Civilisation developed, and constructed extensive infrastructure, during a period of unusual climate stability, the Holocene, now almost 12,000 years in duration. That period is about to end," the s...
Posted by Quentin on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:09:00 PST

Gay Paris (photos)

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Posted by Quentin on Sun, 13 May 2007 02:04:00 PST