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Small Press Profile: Burning Effigy’s Dark Tomes
Detail of the cover of The Black Sun Set.
In the darker realms of horror literature, where monsters roam, blood flows freely, and unspeakable things go bump in the night, no small press shines more brightly in Canada than Burning Effigy, the brainchild of spoken-word poet, writer, and horror journalist and editor Monica S. Kuebler.
The press began publishing poetry and edgy literary fiction in 1999, and in 2006 began specializing in genre fiction—especially horror, but also some speculative fiction and dark fantasy. The way that Kuebler runs the press is a direct response to her first experience of publication as a writer. “I didn’t know the business at all,” she says. “Not what I should expect or what I should demand. As a result, the whole thing was a disaster and very traumatizing.”
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