Malone has opted to keep his secrets secret, so we can't shed much light on his mystery.
We can tell you that he built up the cultiest of cult followings with his annual contributions to men's magazines in the 1970s, from underground fetish magazines to such luminaries as Hustler and Penthouse. Of course he doesn't have the monopoly on this, such prominent writers as Stephen King and Norman Mailer, have famously contributed to the top shelf. And Jack Ketchum's Jerzy Livingston years are now well known.
But what set Malone apart was the strangeness of his prose, and the truly surreal nature of his stories.
These commissions are said to have come about due to his involvement in the burgeoning 1970s XXX industry in America, at the time still largely controlled by the mob.
The closest thing ever documented to a novel was, And the Grave of Your Ancestors Will Call at dawn, a 70 page novella put out by the long since defunct Mythos Pornagraphica Press. Original copies are rumoured to have sold on ebay for in excess of a thousand dollars.
Then at some point during the 1980s he vanished without a trace.
The epic 800 page novel, which he is said to have destroyed at the peak of a mental breakdown, due to a minor disagreement with the publisher regarding typeset?!
Who knows?
And what of the thousand and one other rumours which have surfaced over the years: that he was on the run in Mexico, that he had gone into underground film making, and was now (under a pseudonym) working successfully as a popular Indie director, that following successful treatment in a mental health facility he began a successful career as an educator in the public school system, that he was dead, that the cause had been violent suicide...
Well, there are only two things we can tell you with any degree of certainty:
1.That Malone is very much still alive, and experiencing something of a creative resurgence.
2.That we are more than proud to have him in the Devil's Wax stable.
The Uncertainty Principle: A man who has never fit; a maverick scientist with an obsession and a deadly need to ascend…
Somewhere Between Heaven and Mulholland: A troubled and disillusioned actress is haunted by the ghost of a director…
The Redemption Man: A struggling stand up fears for the safety of a friend who believes he is being hunted by the mythical Redemption Man…
The Secret Purpose of Bones: If her family, friends and neighbours are allowed their secrets, why she is not allowed her own? This is the life shattering question Carol asks herself one night, alone, waiting for her missing family to return…
Howling at the stars on the wrong side of the border: In Mexico anything can happen, and be easily hidden in the shadows, until the truth washes up bruised and bleeding on the shores of home…
Cold Candles: The Infinite Melancholy of Malcolm Manvers: Malcolm is middle aged middlebrow and beaten down. Passed over and pecked upon. Until one dark stormy night confronts him with the realities of his conceit…
Leather Sweets: The lives of a heartbroken Sheriff, an independent young woman and a psychotic loner collide in death and light in the backwaters of the rural American south…
The Son Of Perdition: A burn out hitman awaits death in a cheap motel room. The reaper is certain, his form is anything but…
The Little Girl Who Loved Worms: A mysterious outsider looks on from the shadows, as a tragic young girl is held prisoner by the depravities of her family…
Título : The Secret Purpose Of Bones
EAN : 9781370097746
Editorial : Victor Malone
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