Brian Evenson

About the Author

Brian Evenson is the author of five books of fiction. He is a senior editor for Conjunctions magazine and the director of creative writing at the University of Denver. Evenson lives in Denver

Includes the names: Evenson Brian, B. K. Evenson, B. K. Evenson, Brian K. Evenson

Image credit: Photo by Denny Moers

Series

Dead Space novels

Works by Brian Evenson

Popular Recent

Last Days (2010) — Author — 377 copies

Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019) 279 copies

A Collapse of Horses (2016) 228 copies

Immobility (2012) 210 copies

The Open Curtain (2006) 202 copies

Dead Space: Martyr (2010) 187 copies

Fugue State (2009) 180 copies

The Lords of Salem (2013) — Author — 145 copies

Windeye (2012) 135 copies

The Wavering Knife: Stories (2004) 118 copies

Altmann's Tongue (1994) 118 copies

Father of Lies: A Novel (1998) 112 copies

The Warren: A Novel (2016) 105 copies

The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (2021) 85 copies

Dark Property (2002) 60 copies

Dead Space: Catalyst (1656) 57 copies

Contagion and Other Stories (2000) 53 copies

Aliens: No Exit (2008) 48 copies

The Brotherhood of Mutilation (2003) 31 copies

Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between (2009) — Editor — 19 copies

The Deaths of Henry King (2015) 18 copies

Solution: A Tor.com Original (2020) 15 copies

The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume 7 (2018) 11 copies

Another Way to Fall (2017) 11 copies

Baby Leg (2012) 10 copies

Ed vs. Yummy Fur: Or, What Happens When A Serial Comic Becomes a Graphic Novel (Critical Cartoons) (2014) 9 copies

The Din of Celestial Birds (The Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series) (1997) 9 copies

Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked (2018) 7 copies

The Book and the Girl (in McSweeney's 28 - EGGERS) (2008) 4 copies

Future Dreams: Five Tor.com Novellas (The Burning Light, The Warren, Proof of Concept, Everything Belongs to the… (2018) 4 copies

Prophets and Brothers (1997) 3 copies

Hypnos. Rivista di letteratura weird e fantastica (2022) (Vol. 14) 2 copies

Le streghe di Salem (eNewton Narrativa) 2 copies

Mudder Tongue (in McSweeney's 16 - EGGERS) 2 copies

Understanding Robert Coover (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) (2003) 2 copies

The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Seven (Enterprise, No Exit) 1 copy

Watson's Boy 1 copy

Prairie 1 copy

Body 1 copy

After the Animal Flesh Beings 1 copy

Black Bark (Black Shuck Shadows) (2023) 1 copy

After the Animal Flesh Beings: A Tor.Com Original 1 copy

An Accounting 1 copy

The Cabin: A Short Horror Story (Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2) (2021) 1 copy

Son Günler (2019) 1 copy

Hurlock's Law (in The Lifted Brow 4 - SCOTT) 1 copy

The Wavering Knife [short story] 1 copy

Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #4: A Selection of Novellas (2019) 1 copy

Niue (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 copy

The Other Ear (in The Lifted Brow 7 - SCOTT) 1 copy

Fugue State (short story) 1 copy

Smear�{short story}� 1 copy

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Associated Works

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributor — 964 copies

The Living Dead (2008) — Contributor — 900 copies

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributor — 796 copies

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (2003) — Contributor — 767 copies

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contributor — 621 copies

Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead (1954) — Introduction, some editions — 516 copies

The New Weird (2008) — Contributor — 514 copies

Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008) — Contributor — 447 copies

McSweeney's Issue 16 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Contributor — 442 copies

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Contributor — 417 copies

Lovecraft Unbound (2009) — Contributor — 323 copies

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 261 copies

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories (2004) — Contributor — 258 copies

The Apocalypse Reader (2007) — Contributor — 190 copies

Haunted Nights (2017) — Contributor — 176 copies

McSweeney's Issue 28 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2008) — Contributor — 168 copies

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (2017) — Contributor — 140 copies

Black Wings of Cthulhu 2 (1601) — Contributor — 137 copies

Fearful Symmetries (2014) — Contributor — 136 copies

Supernatural Noir (2011) — Contributor — 133 copies

Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror (2020) — Contributor — 110 copies

Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature (2016) — Contributor — 106 copies

Best American Fantasy (2007) — Contributor — 104 copies

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (2019) — Contributor — 100 copies

McSweeney's Issue 45 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013) — Contributor — 99 copies

The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 92 copies

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven (2015) — Contributor — 91 copies

American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contributor — 91 copies

The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018) — Contributor — 87 copies

After the End: Recent Apocalypses (2013) — Contributor — 84 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014 Edition (2014) — Contributor — 79 copies

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition: A Tor.com Original (2021) — Contributor — 76 copies

Children of Lovecraft (2016) — Contributor — 71 copies

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine (2017) — Contributor — 69 copies

Leviathan Three (2002) — Contributor — 68 copies

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018) — Contributor — 66 copies

Aickman's Heirs (2015) — Contributor — 65 copies

Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022) — Contributor — 63 copies

ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contributor — 59 copies

The Bestiary (2016) — Contributor — 56 copies

Body Shocks (2021) — Contributor — 55 copies

The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology (2014) — Contributor — 52 copies

McSweeney's Issue 50 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2017) — Contributor — 51 copies

Mountain R (1996) — Translator, some editions — 48 copies

In the Time of the Blue Ball (2002) — Translator, some editions — 47 copies

Howls From the Dark Ages: An Anthology of Medieval Horror (2022) — Contributor — 45 copies

Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3 (2016) — Contributor — 43 copies

Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan (2015) — Contributor — 39 copies

New Fears II - Brand New Horror Stories by Masters of the Macabre (2018) — Contributor — 37 copies

Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity (2009) — Contributor — 30 copies

Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness (1600) — Contributor — 29 copies

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen (2022) — Contributor — 27 copies

Isolation: The horror anthology (2022) — Contributor — 26 copies

Fetish: An Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 25 copies

Lost Films (2018) — Contributor — 24 copies

Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 (2018) — Contributor — 24 copies

Shadows & Tall Trees 7 (2017) — Contributor — 23 copies

Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird (2017) — Contributor — 17 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Two (2021) — Contributor — 15 copies

Shadows & Tall Trees 8 (2020) — Author — 15 copies

Text: Ur (2007) — Contributor — 14 copies

Conjunctions: 67, Other Aliens (2016) — Contributor — 14 copies

Donogoo Tonka or The Miracles of Science: A Cinematographic Tale (1920) — Translator, some editions — 14 copies

Exotic Gothic 4 (2012) — Contributor — 12 copies

Nox Pareidolia (2019) — Contributor — 11 copies

Gigantic Worlds (2015) — Contributor — 11 copies

21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 (2010) — Contributor — 11 copies

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition (2023) — Contributor — 9 copies

Come Join Us by the Fire: A Nightfire Anthology (2019) — Contributor — 8 copies

Dispensation: Latter-Day Fiction (2010) — Contributor — 8 copies

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 07 (2017) — Contributor — 8 copies

Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 04 (2014) — Contributor — 7 copies

Uncertainties Volume IV (2020) — Contributor — 7 copies

Exotic Gothic 3 Strange Visitations (2009) — Contributor — 6 copies

Mother: Tales of Love and Terror (2023) — Contributor — 6 copies

The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute To David Cronenberg (2019) — Contributor — 6 copies

Tor.com Short Fiction: Sept/Oct 2020 (2020) — Contributor — 6 copies

Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia (2023) — Contributor — 6 copies

Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 (2020) — Contributor — 5 copies

Great British Horror 6: Ars Gratia Sanguis (2021) — Contributor — 4 copies

In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions (1998) — Contributor — 4 copies

Black Clock 21 (2016) — Contributor — 4 copies

Tor.com Short Fiction: Summer 2023 (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies

Oculus Sinister: An Anthology of Ocular Horror (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Conversations with Mormon Authors (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies

The Quarterly, Summer 1994 (1995) — Contributor — 2 copies

Dialogue: Journal of Mormon Thought vol. 28, no.3, Fall 1995 (1995) — Contributor — 2 copies

Black Clock 10 (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 1998) (1998) — Contributor — 2 copies

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 3 — Contributor — 1 copy

Irreantum: Exploring Mormon Literature - Vol. 3:2 (Summer 2001) (2001) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dziwne Opowieści - Antologia Weird Fiction — Contributor — 1 copy

Phantasm/Chimera: An Anthology of Strange and Troubling Dreams — Contributor — 1 copy

Irreantum: Exploring Mormon Literature - Vol. 5:3 (Autumn 2003) (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 29, Number 3 (Fall 1996) (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 29, Number 2 (Summer 1996) (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 28, Number 1 (Spring 1995) (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 27, Number 4 (Winter 1994) (1994) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 21:1, Issue 113, March-April 1999 (1999) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 21:4, Issue 112, December 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 1 copy

Irreantum: Exploring Mormon Literature - Vol. 5:4/Vol. 6:1 (Winter 2003/Spring 2004) (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 20:3, Issue 107, October 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 20:2, Issue 106, July 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 20:1, Issue 105, April 1997 (1997) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 18:2, Issue 99, August 1995 (1995) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 22:2, Issue 114, June 1999 (1999) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 21:1, Issue 109, March-April 1998 (1998) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1966-08-12
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Ames, Iowa, USA
Places of residence: Provo, Utah, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Education: Brigham Young University (BA)
Occupations: English professor
writer
Organizations: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (formerly)
Brigham Young University
Oklahoma State University

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Reviews

Immobility by Brian Evenson

A bit monotonous and so could have used some editing, but an interesting and entertaining read.

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keithostertag | 14 other reviews | Oct 22, 2023 |

The Lords of Salem by Rob Zombie

I went into this book hoping to get some questions from the movie answered. Well it did but it then brought up more questions.

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everettroberts | 7 other reviews | Oct 20, 2023 |

The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell : Stores by Brian Evenson

FYI Review - This collection contains the following short stories:
-Leg
-In Dreams
-Myling Kommer
-Come Up
-Palisade
-Curator
-To Breathe the Air
-The Barrow-Men
-The Shimmering Wall
-Grauer in the Snow
-Justle
-The Devil's Hand
-Nameless Citizen
-The Coldness of His Eye
-Daylight Come
-Elo Havel
-His Haunting
-Haver
-The Extrication
-A Bad Patch
-Hospice
-The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

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Lemeritus | 1 other review | Oct 18, 2023 |

Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson

I am changing reading tracks and returning this to the library. I might come back to this later. Gifted writer but this is some weird-a$$ stuff for sure. Not exactly scary, more like old-school horror.

Big Spring, Texas oilfields
ebook Nashville Library
July 2021

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Kim.Sasso | 1 other review | Aug 27, 2023 |

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