Here are what people are saying about Infinite Black.
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This is H.R. Giger taken to the next level. I don’t know which is scarier: Dan Verkys’s haunting artwork or Jeff Oliver’s chilling poetry. Every entry in the Infinite Black saga left me terrified, yet clamoring for the next one!
—W.H. Chizmar, Author of Widow’s Point, Night At The Lonesome, and dozens of short horrifying stories.
“A worldwide pandemic. Nuclear holocaust. Rapid global warming. All of these doomsday scenarios still give a glimmer of hope for the species’ survival. There is no such glimmer in Jeff Oliver and Dan Verkys haunting work of apocalyptic terror tales, Infinite Black, A gloriously grim poetic piece that rips out the physical and psychological essence of mankind."
—Lance W. Reedinger, author of Goblins
The Infinite Black takes you beyond nightmare, beyond abomination. Tearing soul from body and sanity from self, it is a glorious downward spiral of a journey into never-ending Hell. The combination of Oliver's bleak poetry, and the horrifically fantastic artwork of Dan Verkys, together with their combined prose, portrays the demise of humanity and its absorption into the machine: the world of Mother. An Inferno written for the modern age, this dystopian extinction, barbaric in its manifestation, continued to plague my thoughts long after I'd finished. There truly is no escape from this, the cruelest, of Mothers.
—Stephanie Ellis, Author of The Five Turns Of The Wheel and Paused
Infinite Black: Tales from the Abyss is a stellar book . . . featuring the dark art of Dan Verkys, which has been paired with the even darker yet profound words of Jeff Oliver. Leave your preconceived notions behind as you crack open this powerful collection of poems and gaze into an abyss of self-discovery that will leave you shaken. The artwork will keep you lingering on the page far longer than it should . . . and the overall design of the book is on point.
There’s a word that keeps popping up in my mind when I consider Oliver’s work . . . and that word is: authentic. This is perhaps his best work yet, and I can’t wait to see what else this magical wordsmith has planned!
—Paul Michael Kane, Founder and publisher of 19th Edition Press
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In this book, the Infinite Black (IB) is also referred to as: the machine, machine world, network, or dimension. Whatever the name, the IB is Dan Verkys’s version of hell. It is, in essence, a dimension-raiding hell machine; where humans are considered nothing more than binary code entries, a collection of ones and zeros, or used as parts for the hate machine. Some individuals provide more “usable code” than others, and therefore are more beneficial to the network. Humans enter this world by several methods, most commonly by death. However, depending on how they live their lives, they can be taken during dreams or nightmares. More often, however, they are taken through portal snatching.
The IB is a living, breathing nightmare-fueled world; where technology and machinery, both old and new, are combined with humans via an assimilation process. This creates a hive-mind machine that produces pure torment and suffering, where everything is interconnected or symbiotic, and controlled by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) overseer known simply as “Mother.” Mother presents itself as a softly spoken female voice that resonates throughout the network. A gentle and synthetic voice masks the fact the "Mother" is a demon in digital form. “Mother,” is in fact, a tyrant. She is hellbent on the enslavement, assimilation, reconfiguration, and eventual eradication of the human race. In another dimension, the Infinite Black and Mother do indeed exist. These are the stories of the humans who have fallen into her web.
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Your assimilation will soon begin.
Remain calm…
Welcome to the INFINITE BLACK NETWORK.
Are you ready?
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