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SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK (2022)
Selected Stories and Poems (2013-2020) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV029]
This stacked Brian Alan Ellis omnibus contains 27 short stories culled from three different story collections (2013’s The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow; 2015’s Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty; and 2017’s Failure Pie in a Sadness Face), as well as 50 poems taken from two critically-acclaimed volumes of poetry (2019’s Road Warrior Hawk and 2020’s Bad Poet), plus over 50 pages of selected writing and interviews from 2021-2022, most of which have never been collected in book form!
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Cover Photo: Andrew Chadwick
THE HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS NO FRILLS SAMPLER #2 (2022)
[HOV028]
House of Vlad Press present yet another cheap Petri dish of tasty outsider lit courtesy of JON LINDSEY, SHY WATSON, NOAH CICERO, BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, NATHANIEL KENNON PERKINS, SOPHIE JENNIS, JOSHUA DALTON, and KEVIN STERNE!
*OUT OF PRINT*
THREE MORE BOOKS (2021)
Something to Do with Sadness, Laughter, Pie & Failure (+ Self-Hate) (2017-2018) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV027]
“[Brian Alan Ellis] is the rock and roll king of sad. Most happy people only wish they could be as sardonic, humorous, and at once morose as Ellis. But they can’t.”—ELLE NASH, author of Nudes
*OUT OF PRINT*
BODY HIGH (2021)
A Novel by JON LINDSEY [HOV026]
“Jon Lindsey is the new gleefully heartbreaking voice of California’s broken world. The darkening caper at the core of this novel of griefs and raucous self-discoveries unfolds in rioting prose that bursts into crazed poetry around every curve. Body High is the debut of a remarkably gifted writer.”—GARIELLE LUTZ, author of Worsted
Cover Art: Andrew Sexton
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Audio version available through The Talking Book!
NOAH CICERO'S WILD KINGDOM (2021)
An Autobiographical Poetry Adventure by NOAH CICERO [HOV025]
“Cicero’s practical language couches a deep and searching spiritually; his poems address the minutiae of individual implications of imposing too much meaning onto any one instance.”—The Believer
I HATE YOU, PLEASE READ ME (2021)
A Book by JOSHUA DALTON [HOV024]
“Joshua Dalton has such a brilliant voice—both despondent and hilarious, cruel and empathetic. These stories are filled with a kind of charming despair that rings so deeply, horribly true. This is a book that walks a fine line between pain and humor, and balances there perfectly.”—CATHY ULRICH, author of Ghosts of You
HORROR VACUI (2021)
Poems and Other Writings by SHY WATSON [HOV023]
“Shy’s poems are abruptly smart, a little violent, devious and ongoing, legendary, mythic, not prosey though a little like the voice of god if god decided to speak more collectively for a while. Shy’s poems to me are so so worth it. And they are crafty—also like god.”—EILEEN MYLES, author of Afterglow
Cover Art: Sam Pink
HOT YOUNG STARS (2020)
Poems by SOPHIE JENNIS [HOV022]
“[Hot Young Stars] is innovatively introspective, a provocative jumble of memories, opinions, and intrusive thoughts. It reads like a barrage of dos and don’ts for the modern woman written on some Whataburger napkins during a drug-fueled fugue state, and yet [Sophie Jennis’s] voice is so confident that you’ll find yourself nodding along with every bewildering pronouncement on what anything is, or should be, or isn’t.” —ZAC SMITH, author of Everything is Totally Fine
ALL MUST GO (2020)
Stories by KEVIN STERNE [HOV021]
“If Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson co-wrote Waiting for Godot while snorting a few lines of Salvador Dali’s ashes, the result might look something like All Must Go. This collection is as sad and funny and strange and fucked up and loveable as its characters. Kevin Sterne is the real deal.”—JENNIFER WORTMAN, author of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.
Cover Art: Emilie Karl
BAD POET (2020)
Poems by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV020]
“[Brian Alan Ellis’s] despair can feel like a performance. He seems to recognize that public persona is a sort of theater, but one with no lobby, no exits. So when viewing Ellis’s work, it’s worth asking, Is that real blood?”—The Rumpus
*OUT OF PRINT*
WALLOP (2020)
A Novel by NATHANIEL KENNON PERKINS [HOV019]
“Through witty prose and wry humor, [Nathaniel Kennon Perkins] achieves a delicate balance of nihilism and hope, resulting in an ultimately moving perspective of one man struggling to find meaning in contemporary life.”—ISA MAZZEI, author of Camgirl
THE HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS NO FRILLS SAMPLER #1 (2020)
[HOV018]
House of Vlad Press present a cheap Petri dish of tasty outsider lit courtesy of SAM PINK, BUD SMITH, NOAH CICERO, BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, REBEKAH MORGAN, JUSTIIN GRIMBOL, and HOMELESS!
*OUT OF PRINT*
SOMETHING SEXY, SOMETHING STUPID (2019)
The Next Three Books (2015-2016) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV017]
“While you were in your workshop arguing about ‘interiority’ and ‘craft,’ [Ellis] wrote a book funnier than your dream of being a great writer.”—KEVIN MALONEY, author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim
*OUT OF PRINT*
I STILL LOVE YOU, PEGGY BUNDY (2019)
Poems by JUSTIIN GRIMBOL [HOV016]
“[Justin Grimbol’s writing is] stranger and more arresting than ordinary emotional realism. His work is autobiographical, but it also veers into campy territory full of outsized psychic monsters and curious carnal romps.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
PLEASE BUY THIS BOOK SO I CAN FEEL VALIDATED & (FINALLY) LOVE MYSELF (2019)
ROAD WARRIOR HAWK (2019)
Poems about Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV014]
“[Ellis is] the literary equivalent of The Replacements.”—TROY JAMES WEAVER, author of Selected Stories
*OUT OF PRINT*
HOTEL ALEXANDER (2019)
Poems by REBEKAH MORGAN (Introduction by Elle Nash) [HOV013]
“Rebekah Morgan’s poems read like they were written by a couch-surfing mystic world traveler and self-annihilator, who returned to America to write what I can only describe as Country Realism.”—BRAD PHILLIPS, author of Essays and Fictions
NATURE DOCUMENTARY (2018)
Poems by NOAH CICERO [HOV012]
“[Noah Cicero’s] excellence exists in his one-two of humor and hurt…”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
Cover Art: Danial Ryan
A DRUNKEN HEAP OF TROUBLE EVERY WEEK (2017)
The First Three Books (2013-2014) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV011]
“[Brian Alan Ellis] is funny and weird and dangerous, and [his books are] sharp, sad, hilarious oddities that bring their own flask, violence, and STDs to the party, inviting you to do a few lines of blow off the bathroom toilet.”—GABINO IGLESIAS, author of Coyote Songs
Cover Art: Michael Seymour Blake
*OUT OF PRINT*
OUT OF PRINT BOOKS
33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living: A Novella (2013) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV001]
The Mustache He’s Always Wanted but Could Never Grow and Other Stories (2013) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV002]
King Shit: An Illustrated Novella (2014) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS and WAYLON THORNTON [HOV003]
Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty Stories (2015) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV004]
Tables without Chairs #1 (2015) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS, BUD SMITH and WAYLON THORNTON [HOV005]
Calm Face: Stories (2016) by BUD SMITH [HOV006]
Your Glass Head Against the Brick Parade of Now Whats: A Beautiful, Nice Poem (2016) by SAM PINK [HOV007]
A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar: Poems, Observations, Lists, Letters, Notes, Bullshit Aphorisms, and General Tales of Ordinary Crabbiness (2016) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV008]
Failure Pie in a Sadness Face: New and Selected Stories (2017) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV009]
Something to Do with Self-Hate: A Novel (2017) by BRIAN ALAN ELLIS [HOV010]