―Bracken MacLeod, author of Stranded and 13 Views of the Suicide Woods And sometimes, the Devil is the only one who really understands.” Because becoming who you are really means making a deal with the Devil.
A powerful and powerfully frightening tale about making hard choices in the name of survival, and what those choices cost. Michael Rowe understands that while it gets better for some people, not everyone can afford to sit back and wait if they want to survive. “ October is the kind of horror novel a lot of adults needed when they were kids. ―Vince Liaguno, editor of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet He lives in Toronto.“Rowe’s tale of teenage anguish and loneliness ( October) is an exquisitely told cautionary tale, rich in visceral images of horror and the erotic.” As the creator and editor of the groundbreaking anthologies Queer Fear (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000) and Queer Fear 2 (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002) Clive Barker credited him as having “changed forever the shape of horror fiction.” He has won the Lambda Literary Award and been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, the Sunburst Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of periodicals in Canada and the United States, including the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Boston Globe, The Advocate, The Huffington Post, and CNQ, and in a variety of anthologies including Best Canadian Essays. His first book, Writing Below The Belt: Conversations With Erotic Authors (Richard Kasak Books, 1995) was a study of erotica and popular culture as seen through the eyes of fourteen of America’s best erotica authors, as well as a devastating indictment of censorship in literature and the arts.
An award-winning essayist and former journalist, he is the author of two essay collections, Looking For Brothers (Mosaic Press, 1999) and Other Men’s Sons (Cormorant Books, 2008), which won Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction from the New York Publishing Triangle. French translations of Wild Fell were published by Editions Bragelonne in Paris in 20. All three novels were reissued in new editions by Open Road Media in 2020. He is the author of three novels-Enter, Night (2011), Wild Fell (2013), and October (2017). Michael Rowe was born in Ottawa, and has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris.
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