"Written with the
haunting lyricism of early Clive Barker and with the poetic prowess of Kathe
Koja, Garrett Cook’s Charcoal is an elegantly beguiling tone poem of trauma and
suffering. To miss out on this masterpiece would be to miss out on watching a
master craftsman at work. An utterly bewitching read."
–Eric LaRocca, author
of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
“With echoes of Rimbaud and
Baudelaire, Garrett Cook’s poetic, lyrical Charcoal explores
with a licentious butcher’s cruel insight the bloody thread that
connects the darkness in man, the darkness in the medium by which art
is created, and the darkness in art itself.”
–Matthew
M Bartlett, author of Gateways to
Abomination
"Garrett Cook's prose
is meticulous and beautiful."
– Lori Bowen,
director of I am Monster
"A whirlpool of consciousness, smoothly drawing you in and then sweeping you along
in ever-faster tightening spirals to plunge into a dark, mind-blowing
vortex."
– Christine Morgan, author of
Lakehouse Infernal
"Charcoal
nails the pain that every artist knows – the agony of creation and the despair
of grasping for recognition -- and lays it bare on the page, naked and
shrieking, like nothing before."
--Bitter
Karella, Hugo Award Nominated creator of The Midnight Society Twitter
"Charcoal
expertly weaves different levels of reality, going from past to present to
canvas to dream"
–Joe Koch, author of
The Wingspan of Severed Hands
“Charcoal
is full of brilliant darkness and on-point observations about people, trauma
and the ways we interact with problematic art. Gothic, nightmarish, and feels
very much like falling into a historic painting of hell.”
– Madeleine Swann, author of The
Sharp End of the Rainbow
