"Crackling Skulls" by Roger Van de Velde (Translated by Jonathan Reeder), Snuggly Books
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Crackling Skulls is a remarkable collection of twenty stories that take place in a mental institution. Like the scent of nicotine on one’s clothes, the smell stays with you even after leaving the premises. I was going through a website from Snuggly Press looking for something unexpected or new to me, and alas, I found this book, primarily due to the book cover and photograph of its author, Roger Van de Velde. To my moronic eyes and brain, I thought he looked like he could be a friend of Polanski, Krzysztof Komeda, and Marek Hłasko, who are, of course, Polish, but Van de Velde is, from Belgium. To me, he looks handsome and an ideal visual of what a writer should look like. Van de Velde wrote in Flemish and was addicted to the painkiller Palfium, which caused him legal troubles. He ended up in prison and psychiatric institutions and died in 1970 from an overdose of Palfium and a large amount of alcohol.
"Crackling Skulls" by Roger Van de Velde (Translated by Jonathan Reeder), Snuggly Books
"Crackling Skulls" by Roger Van de Velde…
"Crackling Skulls" by Roger Van de Velde (Translated by Jonathan Reeder), Snuggly Books
Crackling Skulls is a remarkable collection of twenty stories that take place in a mental institution. Like the scent of nicotine on one’s clothes, the smell stays with you even after leaving the premises. I was going through a website from Snuggly Press looking for something unexpected or new to me, and alas, I found this book, primarily due to the book cover and photograph of its author, Roger Van de Velde. To my moronic eyes and brain, I thought he looked like he could be a friend of Polanski, Krzysztof Komeda, and Marek Hłasko, who are, of course, Polish, but Van de Velde is, from Belgium. To me, he looks handsome and an ideal visual of what a writer should look like. Van de Velde wrote in Flemish and was addicted to the painkiller Palfium, which caused him legal troubles. He ended up in prison and psychiatric institutions and died in 1970 from an overdose of Palfium and a large amount of alcohol.