...if you want Philip K. Dick meets Franz Kafka then read this......Brenton is mercilessly witty and smart as hell...These are just two reviews upcoming strange fiction writer Brenton Harper-Murray (1983-) has under his belt. When you open a book by him, you can be assured that the world will seem a more strange and terrific place once you finish it.Brenton was born on the south side of Chicago to blue collar parents and dropped out of high school after one semester to teach himself through homeschooling. The intervening years have been filled with a snare roll of bad jobs and inhospitable living environments that would make Bukowski blush. All of these painful, sad, and difficult times are pulled together expertly by Brenton. The reader is left feeling that they have witnessed the actual events, rather than having just read a story.Brenton has been published in a number of strange fiction magazines. His first novel, Dead of the Union, an alternate history of the American Civil War with a bucket of voodoo and a horde of the walking dead was released November 2012.