ABOUT  THE  BOOK

Gargoyle Hotel front cover
In Gargoyle Hotel, book one of the Carbon City Trilogy, Christopher Sartisohn unleashes his new mythology for the digital age. Floating somewhere between hallucinatory novel and surrealistic short story collection, prose poetry and radical fiction, these modular “hypershorts” codify fragmentary and disjointed mindscapes unified through Sartisohn’s singular vision.

Exploiting an implicit control of language and idiom with the fierce experimentation of Joyce, Miller, and Burroughs, Sartisohn delivers a collage of hypnotic and often shocking imagery swinging pendulously between rapt euphoria and apocalyptic dystopia. Gargoyle Hotel is kaleidoscopic, sprawling, decadent, disturbing, wildly detailed, bursting with abstract techno-sexuality and existential paranoia—a hypermodern masterpiece of prophetic, ethereal beauty.

Includes 39 pictorial "text art" collages by the author derived from the written text.

contents

  • Raise a Glass to the End of the World
  • The Apocalypse Engine
  • The Temple Of Poseidon 
  • The Trident
  • Wolf River
  • The Guilty
  • The Birth (Eight Legs to Go)
  • The Crimson Tooth
  • Cowboy Boots
  • The Hungry (A True Story)
  • The Scab
  • Deluge
  • Coprophilic Symphony
  • The Blue Elevator
  • The Crimson Lounge
  • Flesh Marimba
  • Bonsai Mermaids
  • Temple of the Golden Flesh
  • Utopian Cliff Dream
  • Zombie Doubloons
  • Frozen Music
  • The Comet
  • Venusian Meat Locker for Martian Flesh Rocket
  • Solar Alien Candle
  • Improvise the Tissue
  • Hellhounds
  • Re/Cycle (The Heathen Contraption)
  • Apes and Rhinos
  • Primate Heroin Eyes
  • God’s Dildo
  • The Corpse
  • A Night to End All Humanity
  • Gargoyle Hotel
  • A Cry of Pain a Sign of Life
 A collage of hypnotic and shocking imagery swinging pendulously between rapt euphoria and apocalyptic dystopia...