I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It

Originally released in 2000 as a hardcover limited edition, Gerard Houarner's I LOVE YOU AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT was cited as one of the year's best collections. This short story collection features Houarner's specialty of serving up top-notch psychological horror stories that are simply unforgettable. Artwork by Colleen Crary.

About the Author

In the world of everyday reality, Gerard Houarner is the only child of immigrant Breton parents, born and raised in New York City, and a product of its school system. Graduating from the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer, among others, he went on secure a couple of Masters degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, so he could make a decent living. He works for, but does not actually reside in, a psychiatric center. Don't let them tell you otherwise (he likes to say). He lives in the Bronx with an assortment of books, bones, weapons, dolls, and other curiosities, including a poet. He has been a member of the NYC writers group, Circles in the Hair (CITH), for twelve years. In the world conceived by a deranged fabulist, Gerard Houarner is a work in progress whose stories are not always the kind you take home to Mother. He fell to earth in 1955, and has spent most of the time since trying to pass so They won't cart him away to the building where Terrible Experiments happen, or lock him up in Room 101 and force him divulge where and how he gets his stories. He currently masks his pan-tribal shamanistic tendencies behind a civil service job. Those tendencies run wild in a humble Bronx residence, which he shares with his companion, the poet and writer Linda Addison, who is also trying to pass for human. He is the kind of person who wandered away from the village at a critical age, spent too much time in the wilderness, and nowadays is allowed back only on ceremonial occasions or to scare the little children. Some of his two-hundred plus published short stories have been settled into the collections: Painfreak; I Love You And There Is Nothing You Can Do About It; Black Orchids From Aum; and this volume. His novels include The Bard of Sorcery, The Beast That Was Max and Road to Hell. He edited the anthology Going Postal; co-edited, with GAK, the anthology Dead Cats Bouncing, which offered stories based on the character Dead Cat, co-created by Gerard and GAK; and serves as Fiction Editor for the magazine Space and Time, which first published him 29 years ago. He promises not to get better if people keep reading his stories.

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