The Great Faerie Strike has been released on the world!

A hilarious romp through a steampunk Victorian London while, just next door in the Otherworld, Marxism is coming to Faerie.

This title launches our new imprint Stink Eye: story by Spencer Ellsworth; cover by Mike Uziel and Jeremy Zerfoss. 

Revolution in Faerie
Ridley Enterprises has brought industry to the Otherworld, churning out magical goods for profit. But when they fire Charles the gnome, well, they’ve gone too far. And against a gnome's respectable nature, he takes to the streets, fighting for workers’ rights.

The Otherworld's first investigative reporter, Jane, is looking for a story. And she finds it, witnessing a murder and getting sucked into a conspiracy within werewolf high society.

Jane and Charles team up to unite the workers and bring the Ridleys to justice. But a budding romance complicates everything. Can they bring change to Faerie or will dark powers consume both worlds?

Reviews
"A rollicking adventure told with Pratchettesque wit and compassion. This is an Otherworld as real and as strange as our own, with characters you can't help but root for and an economic system you can't help but recognize. This book is a delight." (Kate Heartfield, author of Alice Payne Arrives)

"Wacky, satirical, and downright hilarious. With sharp writing and a rollicking pace, Ellsworth will throw you down the rabbit hole and into the Otherworld." (Sean Grigsby, author of Smoke Eaters & Daughters of Forgotten Light)

"Charming, rakish, and a rollicking good time." (Tina Connolly, Nebula-nominated author of Ironskin & Seriously Wicked)

"Spencer Ellsworth's The Great Faerie Strike is Dickensian fantasy that punches the soot off tradition with a cunning female lead and a dastardly fun world. Must read for those who love fantasy but need a revolutionary fix." (Jason Ridler, author of Hex-Rated and Harvest of Blood and Iron)

"Ellsworth’s feypunk Victorian fantasy is A Midsummer Night’s Dream meets Underworld with a dash of Dickens, featuring a heroine who is Lois Lane as imagined by a slightly drunk Jane Austen. While full of humor and fun fantasy adventure, it doesn’t shy away from also exploring the darker side of capitalism or the struggle between finding your place in the world versus making your place in the world versus making the world the place you want it to be. A fitting tale for our times." (Randy Henderson, author of Finn Fancy Necromancy)

From the Author
"The Great Faerie Strike," says Spencer, "is just the weirdest, most fun idea I've ever had for a novel. A Marxist gnome union leader! A plucky vampire reporter! It's my Eugene Debs/Nelly Bly in the Otherworld fanfic ship. It was also easily the hardest project I ever wrote. Between 2006 and 2014 I pecked and pecked, rewrote and deleted, and then earlier this year, deleted most of it and started over. I'm so pleased that my weird little book has a place at Broken Eye Books."

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​Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial novel Carnivàle by WC Dunlap, a surreal and post-apocalyptic political horror show.
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In the midst of a post-apocalyptic dust bowl sits the Village of Junk. Villagers roam like zombies through the routine of life without living, persisting on pure biological instinct. They shit, they eat, they fuck, they die. But each year, the Carnivàle rolls into town, bringing false hope and broken promises.

For some, it is a respite from the doldrums of poverty, an evening of rancorous hedonism—when hunger, sickness, and depression are lulled by carnal indulgence. But for the Virgin and the Whore, it is an opportunity to take the helm of the most sinister show on earth. They’ve prepared all year to submit themselves to the trials of the Carnivàle, ready to risk their souls for the opportunity to rule. But one does not simply lose at the Carnivàle. This year’s Carnivàle will be the ultimate test of the human spirit, all of them.

“This story was inspired by the insanity of participating in an electoral system with fervent fanaticism,” says WC, “compromising our values and placing faith in candidates whom we viciously defend when ultimately the decision is not ours at all. And then the candidates rarely deliver what they promised. It’s the stuff of a surreal dystopia, so I attempted to write one.”

The story begins in September 2019 over at Eyedolon.

​WC Dunlap draws her inspiration from the complexities of a Black Baptist, middle-class upbringing by Southern parents and all that entails for a brown-skin girl growing up in America. Equally enthralled by the divine and the demonic with a professional background in data & tech, she seeks to bend genres with a unique lens on fantasy, fear, and the future.

Her writing career spans film, journalism, and cultural critique. You can find her most recent work under “Wendi Dunlap” at PodCastle, in the Lovecraft-inspired anthology Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird, and the inaugural edition of the award-winning FIYAH literary magazine. Her website wcdunlap.com is coming soon.

She holds a BA in Film and Africana Studies from Cornell University. She is the proud mother of a young adult son and two British Shorthair familiars. Follow WC Dunlap on twitter @wcdunlap_tales.

Broken Eye Books is an independent press, here to bring you the odd, strange, and offbeat side of speculative fiction. Our stories tend to blend genres, highlighting the weird and blurring its boundaries with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.
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