The Cockroach of the Dada Movement

The Life and Selected Works
of K. Ungeheuer (1908-1988)

"Absurd and dreamlike gems of flash fiction nearly lost to history"
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"An almost bizzaro version of Kafka's Meditations meets Poe in the throes of opium."
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"Just Plain Weird! ...Some of these stories make Stephen King’s stories look like nursery rhymes"
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"The only author that comes close in style to the best of my knowledge would be Robert Aickman."
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Raised in 1920s Berlin during the Dada movement, K. Ungeheuer may not be a household name, but his short, weird, often horrifying stories found a hardcore fan base that has been collecting and trading his out of print work for decades.

Ungeheuer's world is one where young love sparks during the building of the Tower of Babel and beautiful women make their homes in teeth, where a bag of fingers can fetch a good price, and the curse of divine lineage results in the weight of the ocean on your chest.

This is the first time Ungeheuer's work has been back in print since the 1960s. This collection covers his writings from the 1920s through the 1970s, including several previously unpublished works and rare magazine reprints covering his Numerolinguistic theory merging math and language.

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"While Ungeheuer's odd stories echo his contemporaries like Leonora Carrington, Kafka, and Borges, it seems like fate that this collection comes at a time when the new Weird Lit of Vandermeer, Schweblin, and Ligotti command the stage." - Karl Sigler