Drug addicts, hustlers, pimps, boozers, suicidal losers... The authors we’ve collected in the here encompass a wide range of life experiences but one thing is certain – each of their works is about as subtle as a boot stomping on your face. Antonin Artaud said it best: “If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.” All of the cult fiction authors reviewed here are “signaling through the flames” in one way or another.