{"title":"Todd Grimson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-sqsp-block=\"text\" id=\"block-e1ca10859301881f2b5f\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eTodd Grimson was the author of three novels and a collection of short fiction. His debut novel, \u003cem\u003eWithin Normal Limits\u003c\/em\u003e, was the winner of the Oregon Book Award. His third, \u003cem\u003eBrand New Cherry Flavor\u003c\/em\u003e, was adapted into a Netflix limited series in 2021. He died in January 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block horizontalrule-block sqs-block-horizontalrule\" data-block-type=\"47\" id=\"block-f3eb52f373a7388a127c\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stainless-todd-grimson","title":"Stainless — Todd Grimson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJustine is a vampire. Keith just lives like one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ex-junkie and ex-rock star — he’s let go of his ambitions, his hands mangled by his dead ex’s own jealous ex. It’s true that Justine has been around for a few centuries and Keith barely three decades, but they’re good for each other. Justine is teaching Keith to take the long view; Keith is reminding her how it feels to be alive. Yet a cohort of criminals, desperate artists, dead-enders, hangers-on, and wanna-bes, undead and otherwise, threaten their curious union. Can love stay untainted in a world of monsters?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1996, Todd Grimson’s \u003cem\u003eStainless\u003c\/em\u003e is a noir fantasia, a symphony of bloody horror, and a woozy, erotic tour of night-side L.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“If Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor had written a vampire novel, it might read with the brutal and passionate clarity of \u003cem\u003eStainless\u003c\/em\u003e. Layers of corruption are explored and peeled away from the core of a heart-crushing love story. The ultimate late night in L.A.” — \u003cem\u003eKatherine Dunn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“With his writing teeth in the reader’s neck and his tongue in his own cheek, Grimson plunders the bloody fantasy world of vampirism.” — \u003cem\u003eLynne Tillman\u003c\/em\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe greatest horror writer you’ve never read . . . In \u003cem\u003eStainless\u003c\/em\u003e, Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel’—and succeeded . . . Grimson exposes the beating hearts of his characters, even the undead ones. Like its vampire characters, \u003cem\u003eStainless\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel that grows stronger with age. We are obsessed with the vampire today because it represents the ideal of our culture... \u003cem\u003eStainless\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel waiting to be rediscovered by a generation obsessed with image, even if it costs us our souls.” —\u003cem\u003eDamien Walter, The Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Ink Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52900776444241,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/files\/StainlessCover.jpg?v=1769424510"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/collections\/todd_grimson.png?v=1772454086","url":"https:\/\/deadinkbooks.com\/collections\/todd-grimson.oembed","provider":"Dead Ink Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}