Daniel David Froid
@froid.bsky.social
Writer, reader, desert-dweller, and minor demon. Chapbook: MY HOME IS NOT THERE (Bottlecap Press). Stories in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Post Road, Black Warrior Review, elsewhere. 😈🏳️🌈
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Here it is: my chapbook, alongside my beloved dog. Losing her inspired this weird little tale. I wanted to write a story about loving a dog (among other things) that was surreal and challenging and not sentimental; I hope I succeeded. You can get a copy here: bottlecap.press/products/not...
January 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Here it is: my chapbook, alongside my beloved dog. Losing her inspired this weird little tale. I wanted to write a story about loving a dog (among other things) that was surreal and challenging and not sentimental; I hope I succeeded. You can get a copy here: bottlecap.press/products/not...
My last read of 2024 was also one of the best ever. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is my new religion.
December 31, 2024 at 8:47 PM
My last read of 2024 was also one of the best ever. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is my new religion.
Very excited to share that I'm publishing a chapbook with Bottlecap Press! I'll be upfront: MY HOME IS NOT THERE is about losing your dog. I wrote this as a tribute to my own beloved canine friend. It's weird and prickly and quasi-mystical. You can preorder now. :) bottlecap.press/products/not...
December 16, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Very excited to share that I'm publishing a chapbook with Bottlecap Press! I'll be upfront: MY HOME IS NOT THERE is about losing your dog. I wrote this as a tribute to my own beloved canine friend. It's weird and prickly and quasi-mystical. You can preorder now. :) bottlecap.press/products/not...
I recently (re)read all four of Renee Gladman’s Ravicka books (published by @dorothyproject.bsky.social). Brilliant, beautiful, rigorous, weird—these are some of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read.
December 11, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I recently (re)read all four of Renee Gladman’s Ravicka books (published by @dorothyproject.bsky.social). Brilliant, beautiful, rigorous, weird—these are some of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read.
I very much enjoyed revisiting this book under its new (old) and far superior title. This is an excellent story collection. Ballingrud conjures Hell and its denizens so vividly and effectively that you wonder if he’s actually been there… (And I say this as someone with a PhD in devil studies! 😈)
June 3, 2024 at 3:10 PM
I very much enjoyed revisiting this book under its new (old) and far superior title. This is an excellent story collection. Ballingrud conjures Hell and its denizens so vividly and effectively that you wonder if he’s actually been there… (And I say this as someone with a PhD in devil studies! 😈)
I enjoyed reading Adam Golaski’s Stone Gods. These stories very effectively evoke an unsettling vibe. And I like that it is hard to figure out their shape—where they will end up. They follow their own weird logic. Good stuff from NO Press (@basicchunnel.bsky.social)!
May 22, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I enjoyed reading Adam Golaski’s Stone Gods. These stories very effectively evoke an unsettling vibe. And I like that it is hard to figure out their shape—where they will end up. They follow their own weird logic. Good stuff from NO Press (@basicchunnel.bsky.social)!
The Melancholy of Resistance seems to be where Krasznahorkai clicks with me. As translator George Szirtes says, this is a “slow lava flow of narrative.” You have to be willing to immerse yourself in the muck. Give in to the forty-page paragraphs!
March 28, 2024 at 5:03 PM
The Melancholy of Resistance seems to be where Krasznahorkai clicks with me. As translator George Szirtes says, this is a “slow lava flow of narrative.” You have to be willing to immerse yourself in the muck. Give in to the forty-page paragraphs!
Turtle Diary is a short and strange little novel published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social about two lonely Londoners who decide to liberate some sea turtles from the zoo. I loved its sensibility, sense of humor, precise and weird observations. A perfect book.
January 19, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Turtle Diary is a short and strange little novel published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social about two lonely Londoners who decide to liberate some sea turtles from the zoo. I loved its sensibility, sense of humor, precise and weird observations. A perfect book.
Recently read The Shipwreck of the Cerberus by @horrorsong.blog. Full of dense, thorny language and intense imagery—it was excellent! Glad I got a copy while I could!
December 7, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Recently read The Shipwreck of the Cerberus by @horrorsong.blog. Full of dense, thorny language and intense imagery—it was excellent! Glad I got a copy while I could!
Marie NDiaye is a fascinating writer. All her novels create a sense of dread—a genuinely dreamlike irreality. There’s nothing supernatural in this book but it feels like it. The main character’s apprehension and difficulty interpreting what goes on around her is so intense and unnerving.
November 16, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Marie NDiaye is a fascinating writer. All her novels create a sense of dread—a genuinely dreamlike irreality. There’s nothing supernatural in this book but it feels like it. The main character’s apprehension and difficulty interpreting what goes on around her is so intense and unnerving.
My copy of The Cozy Cosmic (published by @underlandpress.bsky.social) is finally here! My story, “In Another Distant Land, in a Luminescent Land,” is all about anxiety, social awkwardness, regrets, and melting flesh. It appears alongside a lot of other really cool stories and poems.
November 1, 2023 at 3:05 PM
My copy of The Cozy Cosmic (published by @underlandpress.bsky.social) is finally here! My story, “In Another Distant Land, in a Luminescent Land,” is all about anxiety, social awkwardness, regrets, and melting flesh. It appears alongside a lot of other really cool stories and poems.
Another winner from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social! I am here for all the world horror they bring to us anglophone readers. My favorite stories were the ones by Steiner Bragi (Iceland), Luciano Lamberti (Argentina), and Viola Cadruvi (Switzerland).
October 31, 2023 at 6:46 PM
Another winner from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social! I am here for all the world horror they bring to us anglophone readers. My favorite stories were the ones by Steiner Bragi (Iceland), Luciano Lamberti (Argentina), and Viola Cadruvi (Switzerland).
Finished my reread of The Haunting of Hill House in this beautiful Folio Society edition.
October 29, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Finished my reread of The Haunting of Hill House in this beautiful Folio Society edition.
Our Share of Night is one of the best horror novels I’ve read in a long time…maybe one of the best ever?
October 23, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Our Share of Night is one of the best horror novels I’ve read in a long time…maybe one of the best ever?
I love Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills cycle. Each novella is totally engaging and offers new facets of similar concerns—the nature of storytelling, who wants, or gets, to tell stories, and how and why.
October 11, 2023 at 3:06 PM
I love Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills cycle. Each novella is totally engaging and offers new facets of similar concerns—the nature of storytelling, who wants, or gets, to tell stories, and how and why.
Lisa Tuttle double feature, starring Valancourt and NYRB Classics! Good October reading. And I’m delighted that Valancourt has kickstarted a Tuttle Renaissance.
October 7, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Lisa Tuttle double feature, starring Valancourt and NYRB Classics! Good October reading. And I’m delighted that Valancourt has kickstarted a Tuttle Renaissance.
I’ve waited for this book for 10 years and have the receipts to prove it! A decade ago, I wrote to NYRB to ask whether they’d considered publishing an unabridged translation of this novel. It was already underway then—and now it’s here! As a former Italian minor & lifelong italophile, I’m thrilled.
October 3, 2023 at 3:06 PM
I’ve waited for this book for 10 years and have the receipts to prove it! A decade ago, I wrote to NYRB to ask whether they’d considered publishing an unabridged translation of this novel. It was already underway then—and now it’s here! As a former Italian minor & lifelong italophile, I’m thrilled.
I guess I’m on a McNally Editions kick. Truly obsessed with Phyllis Paul’s Twice Lost, a highly interior and uneasy gothic novel. It’s a really strange read, not to everyone’s taste, but it’s one of the most intriguing gothic novels I’ve read in a long time.
September 28, 2023 at 3:12 PM
I guess I’m on a McNally Editions kick. Truly obsessed with Phyllis Paul’s Twice Lost, a highly interior and uneasy gothic novel. It’s a really strange read, not to everyone’s taste, but it’s one of the most intriguing gothic novels I’ve read in a long time.
I highly recommend Kay Dick’s They. I think calling it dystopian doesn’t quite capture its weirdness & subtlety. The subtitle, “A Sequence of Unease,” is precise: it’s a series of brief, anxious episodes about characters drifting through the book’s unsettling world. McNally Editions does not miss!
September 23, 2023 at 3:24 PM
I highly recommend Kay Dick’s They. I think calling it dystopian doesn’t quite capture its weirdness & subtlety. The subtitle, “A Sequence of Unease,” is precise: it’s a series of brief, anxious episodes about characters drifting through the book’s unsettling world. McNally Editions does not miss!
Here’s the cover plus the illustration for my story.
September 19, 2023 at 7:05 PM
Here’s the cover plus the illustration for my story.
I enjoyed Victory City. I seem to remember that reviews last year were somewhat lukewarm. It may not reach the heights of The Satanic Verses or The Moor’s Last Sigh, but what does? Less-than-excellent Rushdie is still worth reading. “Words are the only victors.”
September 14, 2023 at 3:25 PM
I enjoyed Victory City. I seem to remember that reviews last year were somewhat lukewarm. It may not reach the heights of The Satanic Verses or The Moor’s Last Sigh, but what does? Less-than-excellent Rushdie is still worth reading. “Words are the only victors.”
Really enjoyed this collection of strange stories from Charco Press. Not exactly horror, though the stories are full of dread and unease, characters who are displaced and unsettled. Definitely recommended.
September 9, 2023 at 6:06 PM
Really enjoyed this collection of strange stories from Charco Press. Not exactly horror, though the stories are full of dread and unease, characters who are displaced and unsettled. Definitely recommended.
Just finished this incredible novel from Dalkey Archive. So inventive and fiendishly complex. I love a frame narrative, and this book takes that concept as far as it can possibly go—and then goes even further. Here’s to more Palol in English someday!
September 5, 2023 at 7:40 PM
Just finished this incredible novel from Dalkey Archive. So inventive and fiendishly complex. I love a frame narrative, and this book takes that concept as far as it can possibly go—and then goes even further. Here’s to more Palol in English someday!
So excited to share that I have a story forthcoming in Cazimi Ark, an anthology from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social! A weird old (unreal) movie, haunting dreams, Nebraska, the moon—this story’s got it all. 🎬🌝😎
August 31, 2023 at 2:53 PM
So excited to share that I have a story forthcoming in Cazimi Ark, an anthology from @moonstruckbooks.bsky.social! A weird old (unreal) movie, haunting dreams, Nebraska, the moon—this story’s got it all. 🎬🌝😎