Chris Kelso

Chris Kelso (born 22 March 1988, Kilmarnock, Scotland) is a Scottish Fantasy writer, illustrator, and anthologist from Scotland.

Kelso's works have also been printed in magazines such as Interzone, Black Static, 3:AM, Locus, and Evergreen Review. He and Garrett Cook are the co-creators of 'The Imperial Youth Review'.

In 2019, he was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best short fiction.

Fiction

 * Last Exit To Interzone (Black Dharma Press)
 * Schadenfreude (Dog Horn Publishing)
 * A Message from the Slave State (Western Legends Books)
 * Moosejaw Frontier (Bizarro Pulp Press)
 * Transmatic (MorbidbookS)
 * The Black Dog Eats The City (Omnium Gatherum)
 * Terence, Mephisto and Viscera Eyes (Journalstone)
 * The Dissolving Zinc Theatre (Villipede)
 * The Folger Variation (Shoreline of Infinity)
 * Wire & Spittle (Omnium Gatherum)
 * Rattled by the Rush (Journalstone)
 * The Church of Latter Day Eugenics (with Tom Bradley)
 * I Dream of Mirrors' (The Sinister Horror Company) 
 * The DREGS Trilogy (Black Shuck Books)
 * Voidheads (Schism)

Non-Fiction

 * Burroughs and Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients (Beatdom)
 * Interrogating the Abyss (Apocalypse Party)

Anthologies edited

 * Caledonia Dreamin – Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent (by Chris Kelso and Hal Duncan)
 * This is NOT an Anthology (Onieros Books)
 * Slave Stories - Scenes of the Slave State (Omnium Gatherum)
 * ''I Transgress' (Salo' Press)
 * Children of the New Flesh: The Early Films and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg (11:11)