The Mountie at Niagara Falls by Salvatore Difalco

Anvil Press is pleased to announce the release of:

The Mountie at Niagara Falls and other brief stories
by
Salvatore Difalco

The Mountie at Niagara Falls is an astonishingly absurd and humorous collection of brief stories from Toronto author Salvatore Difalco. Ranging in length from fifty to seven hundred words, these vital and sudden fictional forays transport the reader to worlds both big and small: a land where green goats roam, voodoo dolls inflict crushing migraine headaches, a typographer from South Porcupine kills a potential love affair with a discussion of sans serif type, a benevolent judge imparts clemency on an admittedly violent man, and the road of experience turns this way and that for a truffle-snuffing boar and a talking cat.

These brief tales are alternately fantastic, humorous, menacing, contemplative, absurd, hallucinatory, violent, confessional, and always provocative.

SALVATORE DIFALCO currently resides in Toronto. He is the author of Black Rabbit & Other Stories (Anvil). His short stories, essays, book reviews, and poker columns have appeared in publications across Canada and the USA.

ILLUSTRATED BY FRANCESCO GALLÉ. Gallé is an established painter in Toronto and Italy. He was born in southern Italy in 1966 and like many Italians made his way over the ocean with his family in 1972 at the age of six. His work has been featured internationally from New York to Germany and Italy. He created several wine labels for Viticcio, Greppi and Fattoria La Loggia Wineries in the Chianti Region of Tuscany. He is represented in private collections throughout Canada, Italy, Germany and England.

Ravenna Gets by Tony Burgess

Anvil Press is pleased to announce the release of:
Ravenna Gets
by
Tony Burgess

From the author of Pontypool Changes Everything, Ravenna
Gets is a new collection of “wheeled” stories that continue the
author’s exploration of “apocalypse fiction.”
In a single convulsion of homicide, the population of Ravenna
tries to erase the population of Collingwood. The innocent,
standing in their living rooms, cooking in their kitchens, and
playing in their yards, are simply checked off by hunting rifles or
crossed out by farmers' tools.
There is one thing missing, however, as the bodies fall from
what might have been better stories, better novels, and it’s this:
everything.

Tony Burgess is the author of The Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, Caesarea, and Fiction For Lovers. His writing has been featured in numerous anthologies and magazines across the country. Most recently, Tony was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pontypool. He lives in Stayner, Ontario.



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