“Fascinating to watch the development through these stories of an original, wry and dystopic fantasy voice”
—Frankie Boyle
From the hallucinatory margins of Scottish fiction comes a career-defining retrospective.
Spanning fifteen years of nightmares, time crimes, and transgressive visions, COLLECTED gathers the essential short fiction of Chris Kelso – one of the most singular voices in contemporary cult literature.
Blending Beat-generation urgency with body horror, surrealist science fiction, and a grim Scottish wit, these stories map the changing landscape of a restless imagination. Including acclaimed collaborations with Brian Evenson, Carole Johnstone, Laura Mauro, and Gio Clairval, and introduced by author Callum McSorley.
Publication Date: 28th May 2026
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Price range: £3.75 through £12.00
‘Visceral, rotten, funny, mind-expanding.
To read Kelso is like having a peek behind a grubby curtain, unsure of what you might find, afraid even, but unable to resist the urge. Kelso’s writing rouses a thousand different tangible feelings in your body. I fucking loved this.
‘His notes on each story are honest and raw, an insight into a genuine creative powerhouse’s mind. The stories themselves seem to bubble and roil off the page. Even his early work, which he looks back on, wincing, shows tantalising glimpses of the intensity and breadth which comes later. Honing his craft in the strange backwaters of the bizarro world, Chris has gone on to become a writer everyone should seek out.’
—Chris McQueer
‘Chris Kelso is clear-eyed, big-hearted and unafraid to face the darkness of our world. Across genre and form his work is full of generosity but also wisdom too. Read him and weep.’
—Dr Rodge Glass