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Will Christopher Baer is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Kiss Me, Judas and Penny Dreadful. On September 10, 2004, he joins forces with MacAdam Cage to release the third installment of the Phineas Poe series, Hell's Half Acre. MacAdam Cage will simultaneously re-release the first two titles, also in hardcover. In the meantime, check out what some people have to say about Baer and his work.
Author Media
- Interview, by Craig Clevenger for ChuckPalahniuk.net
- (Phineas Poe article) ThrillingDetective.com
- Exposed Nerve, by Craig Clevenger
- Religiously Cold, from The SB Indepedent
- Memphis Flyer Interview
- Bookslut
- Suicide Girls Interview
- Profile of Baer, from The Desert Sun
Kiss Me, Judas
Penny Dreadful
Hell's Half Acre
Advance praise for HELL'S HALF ACRE : An over-the-top Grande Guignol thriller that breaks every rule of fine literature without ever once descending to the lowest denominator. Bruising stuff, screeching on the knife-edge of acceptability. Baer writes like an addict continually rediscovering the dark, bloody depths and boozy, coke-jangled heights the language can bring readers to. These pages hurt.
- Kirkus Reviews
"I was finally able to read Kiss Me, Judas and absolutely loved it. The writing is perfect, synergistic and so beautifully interwoven with the story, the reader is put through an extraordinary experience. The hallucinatory sequences are so perfect I am still not certain what is real and what is not, and I don't care. I experienced the book, and I still am."
- Hubert Selby, Jr author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream
"Kiss Me, Judas is ingeniously plotted, a perfect noir novel, right up there with chandler's the big sleep."
- Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls Rising
"A deconstruction of an urban legend, a dark unraveling of mystery within mystery. Kiss Me, Judas is a fine and dangerous work."
- Poppy Z. Brite, author of Exquisite Corpse
"An imaginative first novel…we are in a world where reality turns rapidly to phantasmagoric allegory…[Baer keeps] the action moving, the situation unpredictable, the adrenaline high."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"Baer offers real characters instead of genre archetypes, and structures the novel beautifully…the plot has more twists than a Chubby Checker concert."
- Memphis Commercial Appeal
"Fans of James Ellroy's more elliptical writing should enjoy this stylish exercise in neo-noir paranoia, wall-to wall deceit and sexual obsession…Once you get into the rhythm of Baer's smoky poetics, Kiss Me, Judas makes for a pretty interesting read."
- The Chicago Tribune
"Baer's writing has an undeniable force; it is sordid and entrancing, hallucinatory and yet given to brutal realism"
- The Times
"One of the most original and atmospheric thrillers I've read in ages... feels like a David Cronenberg adaptation of an Elmore Leonard story. The plot twists and turns like a surgeon's scalpel... Hotel bathtubs will never seem the same again"
- Mirror
"All too rarely these days there comes along a truly outstanding first crime novel which leaps out of the genre... Baer's début sails effortlessly into this category... an urban legend rewritten on speed"
- City Life