Raw Dog Screaming Press
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RAW DOG SCREAMING PRESS— Fiction That Foams At the Mouth!
Raw Dog Screaming Press is a Maryland-based publishing company noted for producing works of literature, typically dark or strange in scope, with unusual or avant-garde themes. Their titles are often as horrifying as they are humorous, with many of their titles blending elements mainstream, science-fiction, horror, postmodern, fantasy, and surrealist literature. RDSP also publishes The Dream People, on online literary journal featuring the best in bizarre, surreal, and experimental writing and artwork.
RDSP was founded in 2003 by author and publisher John Edward Lawson and Jennifer Barnes. RDSP's first title, 15 Serial Killers by Harold Jaffe, was released in was released in October 2003. It is a unique look at serial killers through the point of view that resist glamorization, and was well received in many critical and literary circles.
The anthology Sick: An Anthology of Illness, published November 2003, was considered a big success in the small press arena and continues to be one of the company's top selling titles.
The Fall of Never by Ronald Damien Malfi, released in November 2004, was the company's first novel. The Fall of Never was a critical success and produced moderate sales for the company, enabling RDSP to add to their catalogue in the years that followed.
Some notable RDSP authors include Harold Jaffe, Ronald Damien Malfi, Michael Arnzen, Jeffrey Thomas, Scott Thomas, and D. Harlan Wilson, among others.
What is BIZARRO?
RDSP is also credited as one of the founders and purveyors of the "Bizarro" literary genre, which is a self-proclaimed anti-mainstream movement concerned primarily with works of fiction defined by their scope of "weirdness." Accordingly, Bizarro also encompasses a limitless number of styles and subgenres. From irreal westerns to romantic absurdism to surreal splatterpunk to post-apocalyptic avant-garde crime noir porn.
