Back Roads & Frontal Lobes

These 23 short tales take you along dark, unlined roads and into dark minds less traveled. Held together by themes of isolation and loneliness, existentialism and hope, and choice versus fate, and at turns both disturbing and darkly comical (while often tinged with sadness), this collection of stories explores both speculative fiction and realism: horror and dark fantasy, road stories and crime, dark drama and soft sci-fi, and surrealism and magical realism.

ADVANCED PRAISE FOR Back Roads & Frontal Lobes

"... will make your head spin and tie your nerves in knots. Can you tell I liked it? I guarantee you will, as well!"
- Gary A. Braunbeck, 6-time Bram Stoker Award™ winning author of To Each Their Darkness and A Cracked and Broken Path

"Each story spins out a heightening dread, the prose swinging from brutal to beautiful and back again. A stellar collection!"
- John Hornor Jacobs, author of Southern Gods and This Dark Earth

"Brady Allen's dark, finely-crafted tales take you on journeys that make your heart and gut clench and set your teeth hard against each other; they drive you headlong into irresistible worlds of insanity and horror. Buckle up, readers!"
- Elizabeth Massie, Bram Stoker Award™ and Scribe Award-winning author of Sineater, Wire Mesh Mothers, Homegrown, and Naked, On the Edge

"... a master class in fiction writing, wildly entertaining and highly recommended!"
- Tim Waggoner, author of Like Death and The Harmony Society

"Diverse, strange, and disturbing, and churning with a power as primal as it is intelligent, Back Roads and Frontal Lobes delivers the goods but leaves some bloody footprints. After several helpings of his work, you'll want more and would probably kill to get it."
- Steven L. Shrewsbury, author of Overkill, Thrall, and Hawg

Back Roads & Frontal Lobes