
Captain Clive's Dreamworld
Author: Jon Bassoff
Narrator: Richard Smalls
Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/01/2020

Author: Jon Bassoff
Narrator: Richard Smalls
Unabridged: 7 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/01/2020
Jon Bassoff is the author of ten novels, several of which have been translated into French and German. His mountain-gothic novel, Corrosion, was nominated for the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, France’s biggest crime fiction award, and his debut novel, The Disassembled Man, was recently adapted for the big screen. For his day job, Bassoff teaches high school English in Longmont, Colorado. He is a connoisseur of tequila, hot sauces, psychobilly music, and fleabag motels.
Original Review published at Cemetery Dance: [URL not allowed] For anyone that’s ever lived in a small town where everyone knows each other and seems to hold secrets about their next-door neighbors, idyllic town horror is a satisfying trope. Truth is always stranger than fiction......more
David Lynch has been quoted as saying: “I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.” I tend to think Lynch is right but would add a c......more
"Orwell, the guy who wrote 1984, feared the leaders would conceal the truth from us. Huxley worries that they wouldn't need to because the truth would no longer matter to us. Which is worse, Deputy?" Well this was definitely quite the interesting read. I always have loved stories where a small, seemi......more
I have been a fan of Jon Bassoff for several years and in the world of weird fiction he is a shining light I am always happy to check out. Since his debut in 2013 he has released a novel most years, with his interpretation of ‘weird’ injecting horror, thrillers, surrealism, crime, bizarro and regula......more
Captain Clive’s Dreamworld is bizarro horror at its most imaginative. Imagine Disneyworld on crack and you’ll be getting close to what Dreamworld and the town of Angels and Hope offers. It gives off that small-town mentality – that everyone knows you and your business. As an incomer to places like t......more
“Captain Clive’s Dreamworld winds its way through an eerie, Lynchian landscape, populated by Stepford citizenry, cursed lives, and all the bleak sensibilities of the most dire Cormac McCarthy tale. Bassoff’s latest is a must-read for fans of the genre, or any reader who prefers their fiction with a sense of the off-kilter. Highly recommended!” Ronald Malfi, author of Bone White
“Captain Clive’s Dreamworld is a masterfully rendered, very disturbing cautionary tale of pathological consumerism and nostalgia for a midcentury America that never was. Jon Bassoff’s vision is relentless and unsparing, his prose like a bone saw laying bare the corruption and perversion lurking beneath society’s superficial pieties.” Roger Smith, author of Dust Devils
“Jon Bassoff’s nightmarish bizarro novel Captain Clive’s Dreamworld reads like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone mixed with Twin Peaks mixed with Dante’s Inferno. Unremittingly dark, this roman noir is a trenchant attack on the empty promises of capitalism…a hopeless rebuke of the bright plastic flesh built around the broken, crumbling skeleton of the American Dream.” Jeffrey Thomas, author of Boneland