Bradley Denton

"An absolutely mesmerizing novel that will leave you stunned and conflicted. Blackburn is an emotionally challenging read, so consider yourself warned. A masterpiece."

--Augusten Burroughs, author of Running
with Scissors and Possible Side Effects

"Blackburn is the most compelling book I've read in a very long while. This is powerful, good stuff, not only in concept but in language."

--Robert Crais, author of The Two Minute

Rule and The Watchman

"Strong, compassionate, and subversive medicine for jaded readers and the blindly self-righteous."

--Michael Bishop, author of Brittle Innings

and Brighten to Incandescence

"Compelling, appalling, and deeply compassionate . . ."

--Steven Gould, author of Wildside and Jumper

"Blackburn is the best novel I've read in years. It will do three things to you: It will make you fall down laughing; it will scare the pee out of you; and it will break your heart."

--Howard Waldrop, author of Howard Who?

"By turns hilarious, heartrending, violent, and curiously tender, it is like no book you've read before."

--James Sallis (author of Cripple Creek), in The Washington Post Book World

Blackburn

A Novel by

Bradley Denton

From Picador
Published on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
304 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
$13.00 - Fiction (0-312-42695-X)

Order discounted copies from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

To celebrate Picador USA's new trade-paperback edition of BLACKBURN, we're posting some stories from the so-called "Blackburn Apocrypha."

These are episodes from the life of Jimmy Blackburn that do not appear in BLACKBURN the novel:

(from the 2000 World Fantasy Convention Program Book, El Dia de los Muertos; and from the 2001 Subterranean Press chapbook Blackburn's Lady)

Novelette:

"Blackburn Bakes Cookies"

(from the 1998 St. Martin's Press story collection One Day Closer to Death)

Novella:

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 1

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 2

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 3

(from the 2006 Subterranean Press anthology LORDS OF THE RAZOR )

* The mp3 on the website this month is a demo of "Forgiveness" by Bland Lemon Denton. (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license.)

* Signed Bradley Denton books are available at the barbdenton store at Half.com.

* More stories, pictures, and music can be accessed through the column on the upper left side of this page.

Bradley Denton

Now In Print!

A New Edition of

Blackburn

"An absolutely mesmerizing novel that will leave you stunned and conflicted. Blackburn is an emotionally challenging read, so consider yourself warned. A masterpiece."

To celebrate Picador USA's new trade-paperback edition of BLACKBURN, we're posting some stories from the so-called "Blackburn Apocrypha."

These are episodes from the life of Jimmy Blackburn that do not appear in BLACKBURN the novel:

Novelette:

"Blackburn Bakes Cookies"

**(from the 1998 St. Martin's Press story collection One Day Closer to Death)**

Novella:

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 1

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 2

"Blackburn and the Blade," Part 3

**(from the 2006 Subterranean Press anthology LORDS OF THE RAZOR )**