“I read Playing Chicken With Thanatos  in one sitting and it left me with this profound morbid eroticism of an empty stinking bed that made me reflect on those moments  when innocence moves out of itself into experience and all the little things that get murdered along the way. Bless you for writing it.”   — E. Elias Merhige

“Díre McCain has given us a mesmerizing, startling, lyrical edition not just to the literature of drugs and madness, but to literature itself.”  — Nick Tosches 

Playing Chicken With Thanatos and A Scar Is Borne are also available at most other online book retailers, as well as select bookstores.