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''