Brian Evenson Will Mess With Your Head

Brian Evenson’s first book, a story collection titled Altmann’s Tongue , came out in 1994. It was not widely reviewed. The few notices the book did receive in the media ranged from the curious, to the baffled, to the outright disturbed. “In a capsule review, the Los Angeles Times nervously conceded that ‘there is a talent here,’ albeit, ‘an eldritch one,’” noted Ben Ehrenreich in an essay about Ev