"Brian Evenson is the Donald Barthelme of psychological horror." --Los Angeles Times

"Evenson accesses dark, unusual facets of human frailty, powerlessness and fear. . . . This intense, nightmarish collection captures the fear of night terrors, when one wakes in the middle of the night, unable to move." --Publishers Weekly

"The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson's ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter linguistic control." --Time Out New York (five stars)

"[Fugue State] brings us into contact with thinking itself, with a sense of terror that seems to multiply plainly, and with the most difficult kinds of truth."--The Believer, "5×5: Brian Evenson"

"Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and Evenson is its finest practitioner." --Time Out Chicago

"These 19 satisfying and surreal stories plumb the psyches of murderers, paranoids, frightened children, bitter ex-husbands, religious zealots in post-apocalyptic worlds and people whose fleeting sanity will be gone by story's end. Evenson takes even his most fanciful characters seriously even as he partakes of gallows humor; this book is as packed with subtly hilarious sentences as haunting images." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer