Anima Rising

“A brilliant amalgamation of history, literature, horror, humor and humanity, unfolding with page-turning energy.” — Petalama Argus-CourierFrom New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery.Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. She’s alive!

“Hilarious . . . [Moore’s] imagination swings into overdrive. He contemplates the sex lives of Klimt and Egon Schiele, writes pastiches derived from Frankenstein and the Freud-Jung correspondence, and even finds room to include a grating failed artist named Hitler. . . Plenty of fun to be had.” — Publishers Weekly

“A brilliant amalgamation of history, literature, horror, humor and humanity, unfolding with page-turning energy, decorously infused with a delightful stream of ingeniously smutty, sweetly obscene words and situations.”         — Petulama Argus-Courier

“Outstanding. . . Anima Rising is another example of why we need both the humanities and the humanity of Moore.” — Washington Independent Review of Books

“Moore offers an absurdist and sardonic sequel, of sorts, to Frankenstein. . . This is a wild adventure through history, art, and literature for Moore’s many fans and those who enjoy historical fiction with a side of fantasy and wry humor.” — Library Journal (starred review)

“I sincerely doubt whether I will encounter another novel as sheerly enjoyable as Anima Rising over the rest of my reading days during 2025. . . Beneath its nonstop but never overdone gonzo humor (which would provoke envy among the Marx Brothers, Firesign Theatre and Monty Python) lies a real beating heart of empathy for all humanity, an unabashed sensibility that reserves and allocates a tender mercy for those innocent humans most afflicted by life. . . Anima Rising is a small masterpiece.” — Locus

“Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way. . . Dazzles, entertains and squeezes in more than a few laughs. . . Razzmatazz is another success for Christopher Moore.”  — San Francisco Chronicle on Razzmatazz

“Moore and his merry band of miscreants are firmly on the right side of history—and they will make you laugh until it hurts.”  — BookPage (starred review) on Razzmatazz

“It takes a certain amount of guts and wild abandon to recast a Shakespeare comedy as a hard-boiled detective story, but if anyone can pull it off, it’s master satirist Moore, whose gift for funny business apparently knows no bounds. . . . A welcome return of a fan-favorite character in a romp of a tale that will delight not only mystery buffs but also fantasy fanatics, and, of course, Bard lovers.” — Booklist (starred review) on Shakespeare for Squirrels