Demons in the Spring
short stories by Joe Meno
with twenty original illustrations
$24.95, 300 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-47-7
Limited edition of 4000 in HARDCOVER
Fiction/Short Stories/Art
Publication date: August 2008
Twenty new Meno stories accompanied by twenty original pieces of art by twenty different groundbreaking visual artists!
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"The power is in the writing. Mr. Meno is a superb craftsman."
--Hubert Selby, Jr.
Demons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short stories by Joe Meno, author of the smash hits The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned, with illustrations by twenty artists from the fine art, graphic art, and comic book worlds--including Charles Burns, Archer Prewitt, Ivan Brunetti, Jay Ryan, Jon Resh, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Geoff McFedtridge, Kelsey Brookes, Kim Hiorthoy, Caroline Hwang, Rachell Sumpter, kozyndan, Evan Hecox, and Cody Hudson.
Oddly modern moments which occur in the most familiar of public places, from offices to airports to schools to zoos to emergency rooms: a young girl who refuses to go anywhere unless she's dressed as a ghost; a bank robbery in Stockholm gone terribly wrong; a teacher who's become enamored with the students in his school's Model United Nations club; a couple affected by a strange malady--a miniature city which has begun to develop in the young woman's chest, these inventive stories are hilarious, heartbreaking, and unusual. While many of them have never been previously published, other have been featured in the likes of LIT, Other Voices, Swink, TriQuarterly, and McSweeney's.
Joe Meno is the best-selling author of the novels Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender As Hellfire (all available through Akashic Books (akashicbooks.com), as well as the short story collection, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.
