Chris Kelso


Chris Kelso is a Scottish Fantasy writer, illustrator, and anthologist from Scotland.
Kelso's works have also been printed in magazines such as Interzone, Black Static, 3:AM, Locus, Bella Caledonia, The Scottish Poetry Library and Evergreen Review. He and Garrett Cook are the co-creators of 'The Imperial Youth Review'.
In 2019, he was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best short fiction.
His essay 'Transmigrational Defences' was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize.
Kelso is also a founding member of experimental spoken word band, Vantablack, with Nick Hudson and George Stuart Dahlquist from Sunn O))).

Works

Fiction

  • Last Exit To Interzone
  • Schadenfreude
  • A Message from the Slave State
  • Moosejaw Frontier
  • Transmatic
  • The Black Dog Eats The City
  • Terence, Mephisto and Viscera Eyes
  • The Dissolving Zinc Theatre
  • The Folger Variation
  • Wire & Spittle
  • Rattled by the Rush
  • The Church of Latter Day Eugenics
  • I Dream of Mirrors '
  • The DREGS Trilogy
  • Voidheads
  • Metympsychosis''

    Non-Fiction

  • Burroughs and Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients
  • Interrogating the Abyss
  • On Melting: essays against the body
  • Possession: dreams of suffering and sanity
  • ''Shadowspheres ''

    Anthologies edited

  • Caledonia Dreamin – Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent
  • This is NOT an Anthology
  • Slave Stories - Scenes of the Slave State
  • I Transgress
  • Children of the New Flesh: The Early Films and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
  • ''The Mad Butterfly's Ball''