Paul Haines sliced through the Australian writing scene with his twisted and murderous black humour in 2002. He has since won many awards and praise for his dark and surreal stories. Paul places himself in stories that make you think twice about his sanity and good taste. 'Explicit, violent, mysogynistic and nasty... stories are heavily cemented in my real life, and I love blurring them into the unreal.' Published here together for the first time are the Ditmar winning story, The Devil In Mr Pussy; the Aurealis Award shortlisted horror story Doof, Doof, Doof; and the complete Slice of Life series, including the previously unpublished Slice of Life-A Spot of Liver.
Author
Paul Haines was raised in the 1970s in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand and moved to Australia in the 1990s. Having vowed to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. His first two collections were shortlisted for Australian speculative fiction awards, and one of them managed to nab the New Zealand award for Best Collection and the other the Australian Ditmar for Best Collection. His third collection is due out in 2010. Paul survived the inaugural Clarion South in 2004 and has won the Aurealis, Ditmar and Sir Julius Vogel awards for his writing. Lately he has been fighting cancer...
