![]() Reading THE BLACK DOG ATE THE CITY is like walking through a funhouse at a low-rent traveling carnival. Kelso’s tale is disjointed and jarring, which helps amp up the creepy atmosphere. Others scour a wrecked Blade Runner-esque landscape searching for a fabled cure for The Black Dog virus. Some citizens combat the disease by downloading their consciousness into computers, a kind of “reversible” suicide. The story jumps in after The Black Dog has reduced the 14th Ward of Wire City city to a ghost town, populated by soulless human monsters. The Black Dog is a virus that causes terrible depression, often ending in suicide. Author Chris Kelso cites William Burroughs as an influence, and Burroughs’s nihilistic tone is palpable among Kelso’s cast of hopeless junkies and impotent men in THE BLACK DOG EATS THE CITY, a strange, often nightmarish, ride through a post-apocalyptic landscape. ![]()
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