A Place Beyond Shame

Author: Ed Steck

Publisher: Wonder (2023)

Ed Steck’s A PLACE BEYOND SHAME is a long-form poetic exploration of autobiographical trauma. APBS is an excavation of memory linked to topography, site, and sight: the bleak expanse of plagued rural landscapes; addiction and terror; the house or the home; and a personal archive of horror, adult, and exploitation films. APBS follows a father and a son transform into Ghoul and Son of Ghoul over the course of dubbing films to tape, loitering in the woods searching for UFOs, and the shock and horror of secrecies hidden behind the walls of the everyday. If when you are reading this book and the horrors become too real, repeat to yourself: it’s only a book, it’s only a book, it’s only a book…