Out of Body

Advance Praise for Out of Body:

"Such wonderful freshness in these stories, exploding and reinventing our world but always with an eye to human connection and our complexities at the core of the experiment. A true delight for readers.” 
     — ​Aimee Bender, author of The Butterfly Lampshade

"Eerie, unhinged, and hilarious, these stories are the work of a true original. Chris Vanjonack is the best new writer I've encountered in a long while."
     — ​Dan Chaon, author of One of Us

"Chris Vanjonack is a freight train of talent, and he's at full-throttle in Out of Body. This is a mind-bending, world-splitting, wildly entertaining debut--a significant event on the landscape of contemporary fiction."
     — Patrick Ryan, author of Buckeye

“Chris Vanjonack's stories are weird and shimmering little worlds, surreal spaces warmed by the unmistakable feeling of something I know very well passing between characters. I'll read everything he writes.”
      — Elissa Washuta, author of White Magic 

“A banger of a collection. Vanjonack expands where stories can take readers via this collection of weird, vibey stories that explore horrors both big and small. His stories will blow you away." 
      — Debutiful


A wildly inventive collection of interconnected speculative stories—spanning the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death—from an electrifying new voice in fiction​
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An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she’s actually upset about his death.

A group of teens discovers a machine that purports to predict the best day of its users’ lives.

A drunken posse descends into the woods in search of clowns that have been terrorizing their small town.

Chris Vanjonack’s fiction is haunted not only by specters of death, but by the elusive questions of life, and above all, the wonder and horror of the infinite. Uncanny, surreal, and infectiously clever, the stories in this linked collection contain horrors great and small, fueled as much by the fantastic as by longing, dread, and all-too-human frailties.
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Morbidly funny and brilliantly observed, Out of Body is an atmospheric, dead original feast for the senses.

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