Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology

From the heart of The Velvet--a writing community built around the fervent love of neo-noir fiction--comes an original anthology. Stacked with brilliant emerging writers alongside some of the strongest established voices in contemporary literature, WARMED AND BOUND crosses literary boundaries on all sides, to deliver an altogether unique reading experience.

Through seemingly opposed conventions, beautiful prose makes a hard impression on the short story form. From a scary love story to a nostalgic thriller, a hardboiled pursuit of salvation to the black humor that is existentialism, WARMED AND BOUND is rogue humility and lovesick noir, where humanity is a dirty puzzle.

It’s Velvet Noir. Welcome.

Stories by: Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis Carrella, Craig Clevenger, Craig Davidson, Chris Deal, DeLeon DeMicoli, Christopher J Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Sean P Ferguson, Amanda Gowin, JR Harlan, Gordon Highland, Anthony David Jacques, Mark Jaskowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nik Korpon, Gary Paul Libero, Kyle Minor, Doc O’Donnell, J David Osborne, Rob Parker, Bob Pastorella, Gavin Pate, Cameron Pierce, Edward J Rathke, Caleb J Ross, Bradley Sands, Axel Taiari, Richard Thomas, Brandon Tietz, Gayle Towell, Paul Tremblay, Pela Via, Craig Wallwork and Nic Young , with an Introduction by Logan Rapp.


Exclusive to the eBook:
Afterword by Jesse Lawrence
Final Thoughts by Livius Nedin and Robb Olson
Warmed and Bound: Up Close by Phil Jourdan
Interview with Pela Via by Phil Jourdan
The Multiple Voices Inside Your Book by Jay Slayton-Joslin
Booked Podcast: Warmed and Bound Sessions
Transcripts of Booked Interviews with: Craig Clevenger, Brian Evenson, Stephen Graham Jones and Pela Via
Photography by Charles King
The Fuse


“The writers of The Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas . . . The result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist energy.” —Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville and The Sea Came in at Midnight