James Burr

(1971-)

British writer

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James Burr is an English writer of dark, although often humorous, paranoiac fiction. His first collection of short stories, "Ugly Stories For Beautiful People" was published in 2007 and was favourably compared to the work of Russell Hoban, David Cronenberg, early Kurt Vonnegut. and Philip K. Dick. The collection featured "Foetal Attractions" which won second prize in the "Roadworks 2000 Short Story Competition" and two of the stories in the collection, "It" and "Blue" later garnered honorable mentions in that year's "The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror". HellNotes described the collection as "Odd, unique, very cool, and extremely readable" while Horror World described Burr as "not merely a “new” voice, he is a fresh voice – a different and disturbing voice - and one deserving of your attention.". His work has often been described as Bizarro fiction although he has no direct links to the group of writers working under that banner.