BURNING EFFIGY PRESS was founded in 1999 as a way to bring fringe poetry, prose and fiction out from the trenches and onto the pages of chapbooks and anthologies. The driving force of Burning Effigy has always been that we are writers publishing writers. More so, we love writing that moves, frightens or forces us to think in different ways. We love words that scream and bleed from the page and demand to be heard.
In March 2007, we relaunched with a new brand new genre focus and many big surprises in store. Since then, we've published some fine horror scribes such as Gemma Files, Richard Gavin, Lee Thomas, Nate Southard, Steve Vernon, and Ian Rogers, and garnered Bram Stoker Award nominations in the Long-Form Fiction category with Nicholas Kaufmann's 2007 novella GENERAL SLOCUM'S GOLD, Weston Ochse's 2008 novella REDEMPTION ROADSHOW, and Michael Louis Calvillo's 2011 novella 7 BRAINS. Maria Alexander's poetry collection AT LOUCHE ENDS also made the final Stoker ballot in 2011.
Felix Renn is a private detective in a supernatural world. When a vampire tears up a posh Toronto restaurant, Felix is thrust into a world of monsters, movies, and mayhem. In a world where paranormal is the norm, each new case may be his last.