Guide Dog Books is the nonfiction syndicate of Raw Dog Screaming Press. We publish innovative, high quality books on a range of subjects, including literary criticism, cultural theory, media studies, letters from the opposition, experimental forms, biography, urbanism, philosophy, political manifestos, and creative and popular nonfiction. GDB is especially interested in work that engages pop culture and its vicissitudes.

We are currently accepting book proposals and welcome your submissions. Click here to read our guidelines.

Our first book, Matthew Warner's Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word: Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre, debuted in August 2008 at Horrorfind 10 and was nominated for the Black Quill Award in the BEST DARK GENRE BOOK OF NONFICTION category. Read preliminary reviews of the book at Horror World, Bookgasm and Monster Librarian. Our next book, D. Harlan Wilson's Technologized Desire: Selfhood & the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction, debuted in June 2009 at the Science Fiction Research Association's annual convention. Other upcoming projects include World Fantasy Award-winning author Jeff VanderMeer's Monstrous Creatures: Explorations of Fantasy through Essays, Articles and Reviews and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael A. Arnzen's The Popular Uncanny.

For updates and information regarding Arnzen's forthcoming book, read his blog The Popular Uncanny: Michael Arnzen's Notebook on the Strange in Pop Culture and Everyday Life.