Eric E. Olson’s The Procession of Mollusks, is a psychological detective story that follows an investigator as he tries to solve the mystery surrounding the death of marine biologist. As he descends into the picturesque town of Newport Bay, things begin to get slippery for him, very slippery. As humans begin acting like mollusks and the static boundaries of the world and symbolic order begin to dissolve, the story slithers into a psychedelic world that has as much in common with the work of David Lynch as it does Paul Auster. The Procession of Mollusks is study on slippage and will not disappoint.

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Murder is afoot, or aslither, in Newport Bay, the setting for Eric Olson’s bracingly odd, darkly infolding tale of a Pacific Northwest hamlet where the shellfish have come up to take the air, the townspeople are turning very strange and the television cameras are rolling. Twin Peaks meets The Living Planet (with a dash of Groundhog Day) in this brilliant debut—Olson is off to an exciting start" — Laird Hunt author of Ray of the Star and Neverhome

If Fletch took Lovecraft to see a movie and it turned out to be a double feature--'Slugs: muerte viscosa' and 'The Monster that Challenged the World'—this post-genre romp is what might have been extracted from their post-movie dreams.  This is a smart, funny, and (most importantly) irreverently weird book. — Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain and Song For The Unraveling Of The World

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