Sarah Court

"Davidson refuses to hold the reader's hand through any of the often heartbreaking consequences, making Sarah Court, for all its emphasis on the physical and the grotesque, a book of devastating emotional power."
– August C. Bourré, Quill and Quire. (starred review) "Davidson smudges the line between comedy and horror, cruelty and mercy. His remarkable stories are challenging and upsetting. Don't look for comfort here."
– Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club "There is a strikingly original tone to Mr. Davidson's stories. The prose is spare yet elegant, the insights are fresh and real, and best of all there is a boundless humanity in Mr. Davidson's writing: a love of life that is beautifully woven with an acute sense of its darkness."
– Clive Barker "A writer of immense power and surprising, accurate insights."
– Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter "Davidson remains one of my favorite authors. Pick this up and see why."
– Brian Keene, author of The Rising "(A) dark, dense, and often funny collection of intertwined tales . . . for readers who appreciate nonlinear narrative structure, flawed characters often unsure of their own motivations, and an evocative sense of place."
– Publishers Weekly "Sarah Court subverts all expectation and plows through labels. It's an endlessly interesting experiment ˜ it is both literary and Gothic, it is both story and novel, and the writing is equally fragmented and fluid."
– Michelle Berry, The Globe and Mail "Each character's flame-out sets off another, and even once the novel ends, the reader comes away with the mushrooming imprint of all the other damage yet to be done."
– Claire Humphrey, Ideomancer "Davidson has written a compelling and nuanced horror story about neighbours, those distant beings in close proximity. They may never be as popular as zombies or vampires in the canon of the uncanny, but if the hell of the other is an inextricable part of being human, it's also what frightens us more than anything else."
– Brian Joseph Davis, The National Post "Davidson's prose has a swift, raw power . . . There is dark humor here, certainly. But an innate humanity, as well, though it almost seems at times the author tries to hide that fact: festoon it with dark pathos and grind it beneath booted feet."
– David Middleton on January Magazine "In Davidson's vividly portrayed, testosterone-fueled world, humans cause enough pain all by themselves."
– Booklist Online "While the subject matter may seem more subdued than explicit and more thoughtful than bluntly terrifying, Davidson slowly reveals an underlying mood that is dark, often depressing and always strangely compelling."
– Jessa Sobczuk, Rue Morgue