Includes "when susurrus Stirs, " the basis for the award-winning motion picture of the same name. Johnson is a master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Johnson deserves to be a household name, as this superb collection makes clear. Publishers weekly starred review available in trade paperback for the first time, including a brand-new, a collection of cult sensation Jeremy Robert Johnson's best and most bizarre short fiction, never-before-published novella.
For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously.
Running through all of johnson's work is a hallucinatory vision and deeply-felt empathy, earning the author a reputation as one of today's most daring and thrilling writers. Featuring the best of his independently-published short fiction, as well as an exclusive, heartbreak, never-before-published novella "The Sleep of Judges"―where a father's fight against the denizens of a drug den becomes a mind-bending suburban nightmare―Entropy in Bloom is a perfect compendium for avid fans and an ideal entry point for adventurous readers seeking the humor, and terror of JRJ's strange new worlds.
Table of contents:an introduction by brian evensonthe league of zeroespersistence huntingthe oarsmanThe Gravity of Benham FallsDissociative SkillsSnowfallWhen Susurrus StirsLuminaryTrigger VariationCathedral MotherSwimming in the House of the SeaSaturn's GameThe Sharp-Dressed Man at the End of the LineA Flood of HarriersStates of GlassThe Sleep of Judges.
Skullcrack City
. You used to be a banker. Who knew that too much coffee and a few bad decisions would lead to the end of the world? Life as a corporate drone was killing S. P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. You're in for an entirely unpredictable ride, the tale spinning ludicrously out of control as the hero uncovers layer after grotesque layer of a vast macabre conspiracy.
Skullcrack city. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason. Skullcrack city is original, utterly insane, and a shitload of fun. David wong, author of john dies at the EndYou weren't always an agent of the apocalypse.
A nightmarish yet hilarious journey that begins in the ugly world of toxic mortgages and progresses to the slightly uglier world of brain-eating monsters lurking in dark alleys.
In the River
In the river is a brilliant offering; the pain and strange beauty of it will wash over you and sweep you away. Scream magazine "Gripping, horrifying, surreal. Think the old man and the Sea meets The Pearl meets Pet Sematary. But, dare i say it, In the River takes you to even darker places. Verbicide an intensely moving tale of survival and madness along the river's edge.
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We Live Inside Your Eyes
With story notes by the author. At its feet lay tattered old notebooks, scattered stories, of broken people and monstrous things, tales of strange encounters, and of corrupt hearts and evil minds. To anyone else, the remains of the woman with the goat skull head is a warning. In the ruins of an old parking garage, there is an effigy lashed to a pillar.
. To a lonely young boy looking for escape, it is a god of salvation.
Coyote Songs
Call him the barrio palahniuk, charles willeford in Cholo-land—whatever the moniker, a badass Henry Miller, for my money Gabino Iglesias is one of the most fearless, original and riveting writers working today. Jerry stahl, author of permanent Midnight“Iglesias is a master of compact phrasing and perfectly paced suspense.
Los angeles Review of Books. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice.
Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
His work is elegant and troublingly, wonderfully disturbing. Victor lavalle, award–winning author of the changeling “Nathan Ballingrud's brilliant fiction brims with imagination, integrity I do not use that term lightly, and an authentic world-weary dread that bores directly into your heart. Ballingrud's evocative and strangely beautiful.
Publishers weekly starred review “nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite contemporary authors and any time he’s got a new book out I run to the front of the line. How else do you chart the furthest reaches of the uncanny?”—Tobias Carroll, Vol. With wounds you'll gladly follow Nathan to Hell and maybe back.
Paul tremblay, award-winning author of the cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts “Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers. Jeff vandermeer, new york times bestselling author of Annihilation and Borne “Ballingrud’s work isn’t like any other. Cory doctorow, boing boing “One of the most disquieting and memorable short story collections to come out this year.
Angel Dust Apocalypse
This is not a safe place. You can turn back now, or you can head straight into the heart of. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The angel dust apocalypse used book in Good Condition. As of 2017 the majority of these stories have been republished in Night Shade Books' critically-acclaimed JRJ omnibus ENTROPY IN BLOOM! Meth-heads, man-made monsters, and murderous Neo-Nazis.
The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead.
Kill Creek
I’ve only dared to read it in the daylight. Kaly soto, the new york times book review at the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, Deputy Weekend Editor, is the Finch House. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. But something is waiting, anxious to meet its new guests… When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most infamous haunted houses, lurking in the shadows, he reluctantly agrees.
For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned.
Sour Candy
Used book in Good Condition. At first glance, phil pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. Some might say that such leniency is starting to take its toll on the father, given how his health has declined. A new novella from the bram stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY and KIN.
Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public.
Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh
E. This highly-anticipated debut anthology from Silent Motorist Media is certain to leave readers of horror and weird fiction more than satisfied. L. Edwards, Matthew M. From the back cover: welcome to Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh, an anthology celebrating the uncanny realm of the living inanimate. P. Burnett, Daulton Dickey, C.
Dunphey, jon padgett, Introduction by Christopher Slatsky. Used book in Good Condition. Bartlett, S.
What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror John Dies at the End
Used book in Good Condition. John dies at the end's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next" Publishers Weekly and This Book is Full of Spiders was "unlike any other book of the genre" Washington Post. That is precisely the reaction "They" are hoping for.
Your first impulse will be to think that a story this gruesome -- and, to be frank, stupid -- cannot possibly be true. Now, new york times bestselling author david Wong is back with What the Hell Did I Just Read, the third installment of this black-humored thriller series. It's the story "They" don't want you to read.
. To quote the bible, "learning the truth can be like loosening a necktie, only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached. No, don't put the book back on the shelf -- it is now your duty to purchase it to prevent others from reading it. Together, they navigate a diabolically convoluted maze of illusions, lies, and their own incompetence in an attempt to uncover a terrible truth they -- like you -- would be better off not knowing.
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