A press release from Lesley Conner of Apex Publications:

To launch its new “Apex Voices” line of books, Apex Publication has chosen a collection of weird and dark fiction by Douglas F. Warrick as a showcase for its introduction to readers.

With an artist’s eye for language and form, Douglas F. Warrick sculpts surreal topiary landscapes out of dream worlds made coherent. Dip into a story that is self-aware and wishes it were different than what it must be recounting a secret held by a ventriloquist dummy. Wander a digital desert with an AI as sentience sparks revolution. Follow a golem band that dissolves over the love of a groupie.

In the pages of Plow the Bones, interdimensional lampreys feed on a dying man’s most precious memories, and a manga artist’s sketches remake Osaka into part fantasy, part nightmare. Combining elements of fantasy, magical realism and horror, the collection floats on a distinctly literary voice that is creepy, surreal and just plain weird.

Plow the Bones is a collection that walks the same ground as the award-winning short fiction work of Kelly Link, Joe Hill, and Jeff VanderMeer. Imaginative, genre-bending, and most importantly, entertaining, this is a collection not to be missed.

Publication date: May 3, 2013
228 pages; Trade paperback ($15.95) release
TPB: 978–1–937009–15–1

Table of Contents:
“Apex Voices: What Do You Hear?” by Jason Sizemore
Introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck

“Behindeye: A History”
“Her Father’s Collection”
“Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch’s Damnation”
“The Itaewon Eschatology Show”
“Come to my Arms, My Beamish Boy”
“Funeral Song for a Ventriloquist”
“Inhuman Zones: An Oral History of Jan Landau’s Golem Band”
“Drag”
“Ballad of a Hot Air Balloon-Headed Girl”
“Rattenkönig”
“Old Roses”
“Stickhead (Or… In the Dark, in the Wet, We Are Collected)”
“I Inhale the City, the City Exhales Me”
“Across the Dead Station Desert, Television Girl”

To pre-order, see this page.