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Cameron Pierce

...brings to mind writers like Burroughs and the PKD of the Valis period... -Peter Tennant

About Me

Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden - Coming October 2008 from Eraserhead Press .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Music:

Leonard Cohen, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, Six Organs of Admittance, Brightblack Morning Light, Current 93, Grateful Dead, Magnolia Electric Company, Skygreen Leopards, Boards of Canada, Joy Division, Velvet Underground, Philip Glass, Goblin, Aphex Twin, Bob Dylan, A Silver Mt. Zion, Syd Barrett, Radiohead, John Fahey, Pink Reason, King Crimson, RJD2, DJ Shadow, The Misfits, Sun Ra, Immortal Technique, The Swans

Movies:

A Zed and Two Noughts, Alice, Alien, Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, Begotten, Being John Malkovich, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Cemetery Man, Cries and Whispers, Dead Ringers, Desperate Living, Eraserhead, Holy Mountain, Hour of the Wolf, I Stand Alone, L'Avventura, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Raging Bull, Repo Man, Santa Sangre, The Science of Sleep, Seven Doors of Death, The Seventh Seal, Solaris, Taxi Driver, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Through a Glass Darkly, Vertigo, Videodrome, Wild Strawberries

Television:

Tales from the Crypt

Books:

Raymond Carver, Jean-Paul Sartre, E.M. Cioran, Mario De Sa-Carneiro, Sadegh Hedayat, Tim O'Brien, Thom Jones, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Brautigan, Carlton Mellick III, Thomas Ligotti, Lautreamont, Albert Camus, William Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud, J.G. Ballard, Tom Piccirilli, Octavio Paz, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Kevin Donihe, John Edward Lawson, Paul Celan, Charles Baudelaire, George Trakl, Antonin Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, Georges Bataille

My Blog

Life in Mortville

I'll be in Portland from January 3rd-8th and will be heading to Olympia from there.  If anyone has a floor I can crash on (even for one night), that would be greatly appreciated. Also, a sto...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:25:00 PST

A rake is wonderful for keeping.

Here's what Gabriel LLanas of Punk Horror said about Embryo Tree for Android (Susurrus Magazine): "One dash of weird fiction (ala Lovecraft), one dash of totally sleepless nights, one cup of bizarro, ...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:20:00 PST

Bizarro Central

Love Bizarro fiction? This is the place for you! Don't know about Bizarro fiction? This is the place to learn more! BIZARRO CENTRALBizarro Central is the major hub for the Bizarro genre. It acts as a ...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:46:00 PST

For everyone chasing the hydrogen bombs of inner space

I want to tear away the skull and howl at the remaining goop-shards of ego.  I want to ride twelve bicycles through a beached whale's cerebral cortex and hide there with umbrellas. I want to swim...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:22:00 PST

Sein #4, Horror Library Vol. II, Susurrus

Sein und Werden #4, which contains the fourth (and final) part of Keeping Angels, is now available.  Click here to order a copy, and be sure to pick up issues 1-3 if you haven't already done...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:03:00 PST

Sein und Werden .3

From Juliet Cook's review of Sein und Werden #3: "The latest installment (part three out of four) of Cameron Pierce's serialized fiction piece, 'Keeping Angels' is this issue's one departure from the ...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:01:00 PST

Sein + Horror Library

Sein und Werden #3 is now available.  It features work by D.F. Lewis, Fabian Delecto, and many others (including the third installment of my novelette, Keeping Angels). A story of mine, "I Am Mea...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:17:00 PST

Chimeraworld .4

Chimeraworld #4, edited by Mike Philbin. November/December 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS (in alphabetical order): Jenny Ashford "Painted Windows" Gerard Brennan "Road Rage" Courtney Burback "Car Lover" Suzan...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:04:00 PST

Sein und Werden

It appears the first print issue of Sein und Werden is now available, featuring the first chapter of my novelette, Keeping Angels.  I'm not sure how many issues it'll take for the entire piece to...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:56:00 PST

BUST

Edited by Bradley Sands and Dan Ward. Features work by D. Harlan Wilson, Kenji Siratori, John Edward Lawson, Kevin L. Donihe, polycarp kusch, Vincent W. Sakowski, Ray Fracalossy, Justynn Tyme, MicroS...
Posted by Cameron Pierce on Mon, 29 May 2006 05:05:00 PST