Works by D M Mitchell

 The banality of eroticism, the eroticising of the banal. An extended meditation on the death of affect in global society. Posthuman soap opera. As the author said "It was painful to write and it's painful to read. But no pain, no gain." Beckett's 'How It Is' married to Guyotat's 'Eden Eden Eden' by way of an Ikea catalogue. 

A collaboration in word and image by Michael McAloran and D M Mitchell,  a collage in words and images of regret, yearning and loss. 

"surface of silence. dead distance of in-tread. null of what till extent of breath of logger-held.  known of in touch of echo trace. till renounce of colour too. till known what of in circling light. cleave of eye in an extend of word wind stretch. shadow-tone asks of in extend of dreamscape as of sun’s accord. "  A palimpsest in words and images of the spectral dimensions of memory, desire and loss that overlays our everyday world. 

 Poems and collages by D M Mitchell, author of 'Split!'. '100 Chambers'. 'Savoy; A Serious Life'. 

 A young man arrives in a strange town, looking to change the circumstances of his life. But the town is stranger than anything he's experiences or even imagined and soon he is drawn into a series of bizarre events that culminate in the town's mysterious annual Festival.   

"The Wicker Man rewritten as a Marx Brothers script." (Chikuma Ashida - author of 'Planet Doll') 

 One Hundred Chambers are laid out in a perplexing sequence. Each chamber contains an enigmatic tableau that hovers at the edge of comprehension. What do they mean and where does the labyrinth lead?  "A mixture of Borgesian allusion and stilted prose a la Robbe-Grillet aimed at drawing the reader in, only to repel them at the next step, like a prolonged psychic strip-tease act that always hovers at the threshold of some promised revelation that never seems to arrive." (Chikuma Ashida - author of 'Maddening Sun') 

 K.’s life is what he would call humdrum. He lives in a normal house in a nondescript part of town. His wife has left him and begins to descend into a freefall of tedium. Even the talking cat and the three chimps sharing his home (where they run various dodgy  business ventures) doesn’t alleviate his ennui.   Until a mysterious stranger turns up and shoves a hallucinogenic vegetable through his letterbox, plunging K. into a maelstrom of reality-bending encounters and conspiracies, which might be real or might simply be figments of his disintegrating brain.   A darkly nonsensical picaresque that satirises conspiracy theory fiction (while plagiarising it shamelessly), and subverts the idea of subversion itself. 

 David Michael K is an unassuming person who only wants a quiet life. Then one day, two representatives from a 'secret government department' visit him to inform him that with or without his knowledge he has become a part of a diabolical global conspiracy to subvert everything we hold as sane and decent an deliver the world to the forces of absolute nonsense.  A nihilistic joke in the form of an ugly science fiction tale? Or vice versa? 'Parasite' is a conspiracy theory story that deconstructs and satirises the idea of conspiracies. And stories.  A self-devouring joke where everything becomes the joke. 

'The paranoid ravings of a madman?' You decide.  "The Black Worm spills the truth they didn't want you to hear.; there is a conspiracy to keep us in a permanent state of ugliness and humiliation. The Black Worm cuts up association lines and the syntax of mind control and lets us see the degrading horror that is our culture - and the death camp that is modern society. "  D M Mitchell shares his nightmares with us. 

 An unnamed narrator wakes up in a desolate, labyrinthine hotel and begins a quest for his lost companion.  As he navigates the tunnels and corridors of the hotel, he encounters an array of nightmarish characters  and entities. A surreal picaresque in the tradition of Lautreamont’s ‘Maldoror’  Fully illustrated in colour on coated paper. 

 "D M Mitchell is a mutation that is created using samples of living legends, both dead and alive. Even though Mitchell is engaging and using the genetics of Michael Moorcock, J.G Ballard and William S. Burroughs, there is no doubt in my mind that they are mere elements being used, whereas D M is uniquely owning his own voice in this weird literary field. The Last Novel alludes to the final novel of D M Mitchell's illustrious career. Or is he alluding to the end of the novel itself? Find out, open this up and be transported to a world of pure, unbridled, manic imagination!" - Zak Ferguson (Author of "Oh, Stan!" & Sandra-Vey: The World's Greatest Drug) 

Published by Sweat Drenched Press.