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Perdition
stories by Brian Kubarycz
Perdition, Brian Kubarycz’s debut, is a collection where each story, linked or otherwise, focuses not on an action but on a single arresting image – a symbol, in the Romantic sense of the term – an ambiguous vision that emerges despite Kubarycz’s determination to avoid anything that might appear merely sensational. While these stories are decidedly dark and moody, they are never crude nor morbid, and despite their darkness, they do not lack humor, though the laughter tends to come from the balconies. Not wholly noir, gothic, or horror, these stories curate qualities of each genre in the cultivation of a unified and pervasive atmosphere that is equal parts psychological and visceral. Sometimes crescendoing, at other times merely popping, each fiction results in what can only be qualified as terror and the air in each is “filled with the very instant of it.” Singular in theme and surprising in musicality, Perdition is a bright beautiful light that will entrance the reader while bearing down with the force of a train.
Praise for Perdition
“In prose both ecstatic and haunted, Kubarycz tears apart the known world to unveil the space stalked both by religion and selfhood that lies behind it. These are powerful, eccentric, and visionary tales, the sorts of things that people tell one another around the campfire after days without food as they slowly go mad. An impressive, devastating first book.”
“Just as Poe’s narrator lured Fortunato through the catacombs with the delicious and intoxicating promise of a rare cask of amontillado, so does Brian Kubarycz’s collection, Perdition, lead us through a landscape of language that is as curiously engaging as a stroll through a charnel house: at times lush and gorgeous, while melding both quiet horror and haunting beauty. We are unsettled by it, uneasy, but thoroughly seduced in finding bits of our own psyches revealed therein, and so we turn that slitted page for more, and read on.”
“John Berger says the first paint was probably animal blood and there’s a painterly, hot blooded, blood-drenched quality to Kubarycz’s prose that piques all the senses. Perdition‘s over-brimming, ornately carved table of language, glistens strange as a Yorgos Lanthimos movie.”
Book Details
Title: Perdition: Stories
Author: Brian Kubarycz
Publication Date: April 14, 2026
Trade Paperback
5.5 x 8.5
120 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936097-66-1
$17.95
Dist. by Publishers Group West
www.pgw.com, 800-788-2123
Available at your favorite local bookstore, on bookshop.org, and wherever books are sold.
