Evenson is a major figure among writers who straddle the line between genre forms and literary concerns, and he was recently the subject of a 5 x 5 interview (five interviewers, and spread over five full-length conversations) with The Believer bringing his work to an even wider audience Evenson’s straight genre work is published by Tor, and there’s a large cross-over audience primed to enjoy his more literary work. Evenson’s work has been compared to that of J. G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Franz Kafka, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Coover, Edgar Allan Poe.
Evenson has also won the ALA RUSA Award for Best Horror Novel and was a finalist for the Edgar Award. Collapse will be published alongside three re-releases (The Open Curtain, Father of Lies, and Last Days, all with a unified design and new introductions