{"product_id":"the-horrorist-by-leo-vladimirsky","title":"The Horrorist by Leo Vladimirsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER: Expected to release August 11, 2027.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrade Paperback.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen an artist restages real terror attacks as the next great pop-art product, a burned-out New York ad man is the only one close enough to figure out that the new culture of carnage may have a serious downside—everyone’s total annihilation!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerror Is the New Black\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKeith Vaughan is a washed-out New York ad man totally disenchanted with the industry he once loved. Then Keith discovers Sheena Red. Sheena is the art world’s newest star. She’s young, brilliant, and obsessed with terrorism as the ultimate spectacle. Her new movement is called “Horrorism,” and its pieces do not merely comment on atrocity—they recreate it by restaging actual terror attacks, but this time reduced to pure form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoison gas blooms through a studio audience as spectators reach for masks that may or may not save them. Sarin leaks into the subway. Buildings fall. As the bodies pile up, the critics swoon, and the media asks whether mass death can be the next great American art form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Horrorism escalates from obscene provocation to corpse-strewn spectacle, Sheena and her collaborators are circling a final work grand enough to make Horrorism immortal—and obscene enough to allegedly expose the civilization which made it possible. The only thing that might be standing in the way is a gifted young copywriter who is the one person close enough to understand the seduction and the sickness of what they are creating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavage, stylish, and morally radioactive, \u003cem\u003eThe Horrorist\u003c\/em\u003e is \u003cem\u003eFight Club\u003c\/em\u003e inside an ad agency, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/em\u003e in the age of viral spectacle, and J. G. Ballard’s \u003cem\u003eCrash\u003c\/em\u003e in a world where catastrophe has become content. Debut novelist and sometime ad man Leo Vladimirsky asks what happens when a society trained to consume spectacle finally gets the grand exhibition of terror and carnage it has so desperately longed for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint ISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 979-8-90116-092-3\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrade paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e400 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 × 9 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ark Press","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53394074796321,"sku":"ARK-0923-PB","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/1550\/0321\/files\/ark-2027-horrorist-front-cover.jpg?v=1787795928","url":"https:\/\/ark.press\/products\/the-horrorist-by-leo-vladimirsky","provider":"Ark Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}