Chris Kelso (born 22 March 1988, Kilmarnock, Scotland) is a Scottish Fantasy writer, illustrator, and anthologist from Scotland.

Kelso's works have also been printed in magazines such as Interzone, Black Static, 3:AM, Locus, Bella Caledonia, The Scottish Poetry Library and Evergreen Review. He and Garrett Cook are the co-creators of 'The Imperial Youth Review'.

In 2019, he was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best short fiction. His essay 'Transmigrational Defences' was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize and his monograph on Andrzej Żuławski's Possession was nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award

Kelso is also a founding member of experimental spoken word band, Vantablack, with Nick Hudson and George Stuart Dahlquist from Sunn O))).

Works

Fiction

  • Last Exit To Interzone (Black Dharma Press)
  • Schadenfreude (Dog Horn Publishing)
  • A Message from the Slave State (Western Legends Books)
  • Moosejaw Frontier (Bizarro Pulp Press)
  • Transmatic (MorbidbookS)
  • The Black Dog Eats The City (Omnium Gatherum)
  • Terence, Mephisto and Viscera Eyes (Journalstone)
  • The Dissolving Zinc Theatre (Villipede)
  • The Folger Variation (Shoreline of Infinity)
  • Wire & Spittle (Omnium Gatherum)
  • Rattled by the Rush (Journalstone)
  • The Church of Latter Day Eugenics (with Tom Bradley)
  • I Dream of Mirrors' (The Sinister Horror Company)
  • The DREGS Trilogy (Black Shuck Books)
  • Voidheads (Schism)
  • Metympsychosis (Feral Dove)

Non-Fiction

  • Burroughs and Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients (Beatdom)
  • Interrogating the Abyss (Apocalypse Party)
  • On Melting: essays against the body (Control)
  • Possession: dreams of suffering and sanity (PS Publishing)
  • Shadowspheres (with Ewan Morrison)

Anthologies edited

  • Caledonia Dreamin – Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent (by Chris Kelso and Hal Duncan)
  • This is NOT an Anthology (Onieros Books)
  • Slave Stories - Scenes of the Slave State (Omnium Gatherum)
  • I Transgress (Salo' Press)
  • Children of the New Flesh: The Early Films and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg (with David Leo Rice)
  • The Mad Butterfly's Ball (with Preston Grassmann) (PS Publishing)

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