ISBN: 0-88739-181-8
198 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Psychopup
Janice Knapp
PSYCHOPUP and OTHER STORIES is an eclectic collection of short stories, some bizarre, some horrific, some endearing, and all in a clear historical context. Themes in PSYCHOPUP include: A Dog-Man in search of his pedigree, a tattoo artist in search of the ultimate canvas, revealing the source of Freud's theories, and aberrant creatures during the Plague that drew more blood than the Flagellants.
"It was the head of the child that shocked and silenced the observers. The shape of the features created the impression that this...infant...had been whelped by a dog rather than a woman.
The mouth, slightly ajar, revealed a full complement of milk teeth. The ears, set high and far back on the head, splayed out on either side, the soft furry flaps of skin resting on the cushion. In a strange way, it was the vulnerability of the child that gave it an alluring appeal-an appeal that at the same time was appalling."
Review: " . . . the primary strength of [PSYCHOPUP] lies in the presentation of a sort of fantastic reality, a world populated by dog-headed boys, fairies, werewolves, intellectual vampires, bizarre examples of evolutionary oddities-all described in prose as precise as the keenest observation of a sober scientist: dreams and imagination as hard as stone and as wet as water: fantastic reality."
Barbaric Yawp
Bio: JANICE KNAPP was born in the South, raised in the Midwest, and now lives in the East. PSYCHOPUP is her first book.
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