Hey guess what.
My new novel SKULL SLIME TENTACLE WITCH WAR comes out TODAY!
It’s available on Amazon and I have signed copies you can purchase from me directly.
Also: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine just published an interview with me about the book. I think I’m gonna get Rebecca Gransden’s opening paragraph carved on my grave stone:
Anarchic weirdism triumphs in Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War (Anxiety Press, 2024). Rick Claypool’s wild novel unveils new visions of absurd abandon, wrapped up in a hyperreal rush of cartoonish wonder. As a whirlpool of body horror kitsch drenched in neon trash nightmares, Claypool’s demented sensibility evokes creature feature mayhem and B-movie unruliness. Never did slime glow so good.
Oh and one more thing – Mike Kleine’s blurb!
If you don’t know Mike’s work, holy crap. His fiction is ultraminimalist and absurd and always surprising. Hugely inspiring for me and, I have to say, astoundingly fun. Third World Majicks from Inside the Castle is an excellent place to start.
Anyway, here’s what Mike had to say:
“These days, it’s a real treat to read a book that’s completely genuine and so sure of itself—charming and bizarre and exciting! Rick Claypool’s SKULL SLIME TENTACLE WITCH WAR is unlike anything I’ve ever read, exuding a rare type of confidence I did not know still existed. Here, we have a place called Moontown… full of mutants… where weird things just happen. Yes, it’s grotesque. Yes, there is “a gigantic thing like a building made of skin”. And yes, in the sky, there exists a goo Moon. Yet, this is a real kind of weirdness, that absolutely does not ever let up. A world where the rules just do not apply. Honestly, reading this book took me back to the early days of Bizarro fiction, when things truly felt new. With a title like SKULL SLIME TENTACLE WITCH WAR, I wouldn’t blame you for not knowing exactly what to expect. I’ll just say this: Rick Claypool has single-handedly introduced a combo-breaker of a novel that’s absolutely going to inspire the next generation of weird writers. I know it. Mark my words. Please.”
You can pick up the book at Amazon or order a signed copy from me directly and find out for yourself why Reactor Magazine called it one of the summer’s can’t-miss indie speculative fiction books.
Or y’know, you can doomscroll the far-less-entertaining apocalypse playing out right now before our futile eyes.
YOUR CHOICE!
See you on the other side of the slime,
Rick
P.S. If you’re within striking distances of Providence, R.I., consider coming to the Saturday, July 20 book launch party, it’ll be me and B.R. Yeager and a goopy good time.