" The Gods in Small Doses is the most fun I've had reading in a long, long time. I had that euphoric urge to open my mouth wide, then wider, because something was trapped, a shout or a laugh or a sob, and then they all three burst in like fools through a doorway. This book is so funny, so charming and strange, that I'd follow it into the woods any old evening. Dear Reader, buckle up."-- Lindsay Hunter , author of Hot Springs Drive "Mixing the confidence and violence of a Grimms fairy tale with the sharp perception of the best contemporary critiques of the often senseless ways we work, couple, and live now, The Gods in Small Doses is odd, funny, unsettling, timeless, and devastating. These stories will wake you up and keep you awake at night."-- Emma Copley Eisenberg , author of Housemates "I have never eaten god before, but reading Josh Bell feels like coming mighty close. Each story in this collection entered my body like a shocking burst of light.

Bell must write with ink given to him by some feral mystic who is guarding an alphabet too hot to touch. The Gods in Small Doses is a freaking masterpiece."-- Sabrina Orah Mark , author of Happily: a Personal History-with Fairy Tales "The stories in The Gods in Small Doses are unpredictable and startling little gothic comedies largely about the perversions of childhood and family life--winning, hilarious, and peppered judiciously with breath-catching flashes of emotion washed clean of any overblown sentimentality. Thoughtful, disciplined writing, limning an unknown territory of genre-pleasure that is just short of fabulist: these marvelous stories seem to come from the past and future all at once."-- Jordy Rosenberg , author of Confessions of the Fox and Night Night Fawn.