Siren Promised

Siren Promised by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson will be a signed and numbered hardcover limited edition of only 250 copies. This edition will be heavily illustrated by the acclaimed artist Alan M. Clark. Publisher: Bloodletting Press Publisher's Description: Angie Smith is headed home to Monahan… away from her dark past, away from her boyfriend, Cypher, who has drawn her deep into a violent web of parties, pills, and pain. She is ready to start a new life with her long-abandoned daughter, Kaya, but she wants to attend one more party, a rave deep in the forest, where she will abandon herself one last time before commiting her life to her daughter. Siren Promised A thousand miles away, Curtis Loew is looking for a new family. He’s tried to have a family before, but things always seemed to go wrong. People can be so cold. The people Curtis loves, sometimes they don’t love him back. Sometimes they stop talking to him. Sometimes they even die, leaving Curtis alone again. Curtis is new to Monahan, but the neighbors are kind. He’s spending more and more time with the Smiths, Kaya, and her mentally unstable grandmother, Colleen. Already, they’re beginning to seem like Family. And Curtis, he’s got so much love to give. Siren Promised Angie never thought that going to the party in the forest would unravel the world around her. She knew Cypher was dangerous, but she never knew he could be so cruel. She never knew that the forest could be so dark. Now Angie has voices in her head that beg her to stop breathing. Now Angie sees shapes that aren’t quite human. Now Angie has a vision in her mind…her daughter, Kaya, floating in the air, with hand-shaped bruises spreading across her throat. To save her daughter, Angie must find a way home to Monahan. But on the lonely roads, in the dark of night, home has never seemed so far away. Siren Promised Co-written by acclaimed author Jeremy Robert Johnson and World Fantasy Award winner Alan M. Clark, Siren Promised is a novel of deep psychological horror. Featuring over thirty interior illustrations and cover artwork by Alan M. Clark, Siren Promised sets a new benchmark in visual and written storytelling.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jeremy Robert Johnson

Alan M. Clark

Thrillers & Suspense

Bloodletting Press

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. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead. They're all here, trying to claw their way free. From the radioactive streets of a war-scarred future, where the nuclear bombs have become self-aware, to the fallow fields of Nebraska where the kids are mainlining lightning bugs, this is a world both alien and intensely human. This is a place where self-discovery involves scalpels and horse tranquilizers; where the doctors are more doped-up than the patients; where obsessive-compulsive acid-freaks have unlocked the gateway to God and can't close the door. This is not a safe place. You can turn back now, or you can head straight into the heart of... the ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE

Angel Dust Apocalypse

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Eraserhead Pr

Angie Smith and Curtis Loew are having dreams they can't shake. At the heart of each is Angie's daughter, Kaya. Angie's dreams end in death, the spreading of hand-shaped bruises across her daughter's throat. Curtis' dreams end in something else, something closer to obsession than love. Angie is worlds away, trying to keep her drug-shattered mind from falling apart, traveling through an American underbelly filled with inhuman shapes, dark whispers and old friends with empty eyes. Curtis is Kaya's new neighbor. He's getting closer to her, and her mentally unstable grandmother, Colleen. He's had families before, but he'd always made mistakes. Mistakes that led to new names, new towns. But this one time, he swears, things will all work out. He's got so much love to give. SIREN PROMISED Featuring an introduction from author Simon Clark, over thirty illustrations by Alan M. Clark and an afterword by the book's creators, Siren Promised sets a new benchmark in visual and written storytelling.

Swallowdown Pr

Entropy in Bloom: Stories

Night Shade Books

Book Riot Contemporary Horror Top 50 * Barnes &amp; Noble Best of Horror 2017 * MCL Best of 2017 * Undead Airlock Best of 2017 * Dead End Follies Top 10 Includes The Sleep of Judges, currently in development as a feature film, and When Susurrus Stirs, the basis for the award-winning motion picture of the same name. Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by LitReactor and Big Other and one of the Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About by Kirkus/Black Gate. "Johnson is a master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Horror fans will find much to chew on, and these stories will certainly reach a wider audience. 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, a collection of cult sensation Jeremy Robert Johnson's best and most bizarre short fiction, including a brand-new, 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. In "Persistence Hunting," a lonely distance runner is seduced into a brutal life of crime with an ever-narrowing path for escape. In "When Susurrus Stirs," an unlucky pacifist must stop a horrifying parasite from turning his body into a sentient hive. 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, 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, heartbreak, and terror of JRJ's strange new worlds.

United States

Night Shade

A feeling has been tearing up the underground of the fiction world. It’s a nightmare reflection of the society you inhabit, a surreal explosion of pop, punk, and the post-apocalypse. Over the last decade, Bizarro Fiction has changed the definition of avant garde, it’s abolished the traditional prose of yesterday and established a new precedent for awesome. Collected in this anthology is some of the best weird fiction from the past decade. Award-winning writers, cult prodigies and burgeoning talents all collected together in one place. This is what you’ve done with the last ten years of your life. 
 With stories by: 
 D. Harlan Wilson, Alissa Nutting, Joe R. Lansdale, Carlton Mellick III, Kevin L. Donihe, Blake Butler, Ryan Boudinot, Vincent Sakowski, Cody Goodfellow, Amelia Gray, Robert Devereaux, Mykle Hansen, Athena Villaverde, Matthew Revert, Garrett Cook, Roy Kesey, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Aimee Bender, Ian Watson &amp; Roberto Quaglia, Jeremy C. Shipp, Andersen Prunty, Jedediah Berry, Andrea Kneeland, Kurt Dinan, David Agranoff, Ben Loory, Kris Saknussemm, Stephen Graham Jones, Bentley Little, David W. Barbee, and Tom Piccirilli.

The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade

AIMEE BENDER

Carlton Mellick III

Alissa Nutting

Ryan Boudinot

Ben Loory

Amelia Gray

Bentley, Little

joe-r-lansdale

Eraserhead Press

"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. A father and son fishing lesson become a nightmarish voyage to the sea in this visionary testament to the lengths we will go for those we love. 100% of JRJ's first month of royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to Portland Homeless Family Solutions to aid them in the difficult work of helping families with children find safety and security during times of struggle.

In the River

Literary

Lazy Fascist Press

An intensely moving tale of survival, loss, and madness along the river's edge. A father and son fishing lesson becomes a nightmarish voyage to the sea in this visionary testament to the lengths we will go for those we love.\n"The simple story of a father and son going fishing somehow morphs into a soul-shattering tale of anxiety, loss, and vengeance wrapped in a surreal narrative about the things that can keep a person between this world and the next. Johnson is a maestro of the weird and one of the best writers in crime and horror, but this one erases all of those genres and makes him simply one of the best."―PANK Magazine\n"This is superb fiction with a raw, throbbing, aching heart at its core that is far too big to be contained within the book's pages but that is, by some bizarre magic, still there."―Vol. 1 Brooklyn\n"In the River is a brilliant offering; the pain and strange beauty of it will wash over you and sweep you away."―Scream Magazine\n"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\nFrom the Inside Flap\nFinalist for the 2018 Wonderland Award.\nFinalist for Best Novella of the Year in the 2017 This Is Horror Awards.\nFeatured in PANK Magazine's Best of 2017.\nPraise for Jeremy Robert Johnson and IN THE RIVER 
"This is superb fiction with a raw, throbbing, aching heart at its core that is far too big to be contained within the book's pages but that is, by some bizarre magic, still there."―Vol. 1 Brooklyn 
"From the opening pages I was swept away with Johnson's prose and after only ten minutes of reading I felt emotionally shattered. Johnson is a fantastic writer and this is a beautifully told story."―The Grim Reader\n"The Old Man and the Sea, but dipped in Johnson's signature soup of strange. A book of cold sweats and delirium...Johnson has given us a tale that explores parental terror and grief, and ultimately leaves the heart shook."―The Inlander\n"Johnson has been long establishing himself as one of the premier writers of the weird alongside such talents as Kelly Link and Stephen Graham Jones, and with In the River, he demonstrates a depth of storytelling that cements him not just as a rising voice, but one that has arrived. In the River is a fierce, distinctive gut-punch of a read with enough gritty darkness to bring even the most jaded reader of dark fiction to their knees."―Life in Metropolis\n"The simple story of a father and son going fishing somehow morphs into a soul-shattering tale of anxiety, loss, and vengeance wrapped in a surreal narrative about the things that can keep a person between this world and the next. Johnson is a maestro of the weird and one of the best writers in bizarro, crime, and horror, but this one erases all of those genres and makes him simply one of the best."―PANK Magazine\n"A master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Johnson deserves to be a household name..."―Publishers Weekly 
"Genre-bending...haunting..."―The Washington Post 
"Johnson captures humanity's absurdity, our grotesqueries, sometimes our triumphs, all the while pushing past the limits of reality, transforming it into something dark, and surreal, and unforgettable."―B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog 
"A powerful imagination, a great talent for storytelling, writing chops that allow him to tackle any genre, and a flowing, dynamic voice that, if Johnson were a singer, would extend to an impressive eight octaves."―Electric Literature 
"Surreal, visceral, and frequently unsettling...One more descriptor, while we're at it: highly entertaining. Johnson brings a pulpy urgency to the page, which blends neatly with the frequently heady concepts that he utilizes in his fiction."―Tor.com 
"Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human."―Brian Evenson, author of A Co

Coevolution Press

This is where our worst impulses take us. This is the past come back to do much more than haunt us. These are the moments where we cross into madness, never to return. This is what happens when we devote ourselves wholeheartedly to acting out...\nALL THE WRONG IDEAS\nFrom parasite-riddled pulp experiments to post-apocalyptic road trip freak-outs, from suddenly self-aware nuke narratives to tales of revenge told in reverse, ALL THE WRONG IDEAS collects the earliest and most absurd stories from bestselling weird fiction phenomenon Jeremy Robert Johnson in one wild, wondrous volume. Includes the novella "Extinction Journals," the brand new short story "The Seat of Reason," and 17 other unsettling entry points into JRJ's dark, delirious, and definitively damaged world.\n"Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human."―Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses\n"I've seen the future and it's bizarre, it's beautifully berserk, it's Jeremy Robert Johnson."―Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians\n"A powerful imagination, a great talent for storytelling, writing chops that allow him to tackle any genre, and a flowing, dynamic voice that, if Johnson were a singer, would extend to an impressive eight octaves."―Electric Literature\nFrom the Inside Flap\n"A master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Johnson deserves to be a household name..." 
―Publishers Weekly\n"Genre-bending...haunting..." 
―The Washington Post\n"Johnson captures humanity's absurdity, our grotesqueries, sometimes our triumphs, all the while pushing past the limits of reality, transforming it into something dark, and surreal, and unforgettable." 
―B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog\n"[A] fantastic new voice in mainstream fiction..." 
—Los Angeles Review of Books\n"A powerful imagination, a great talent for storytelling, writing chops that allow him to tackle any genre, and a flowing, dynamic voice that, if Johnson were a singer, would extend to an impressive eight octaves." 
―Electric Literature\n"Surreal, visceral, and frequently unsettling...One more descriptor, while we're at it: highly entertaining. Johnson brings a pulpy urgency to the page,which blends neatly with the frequently heady concepts that he utilizes in his fiction." 
―Tor.com\n"Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human." 
―Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses\n"Reading Johnson, you feel you are in the grip of an immensely powerful, possibly malevolent, but fiercely intelligent mind." 
―Nick Cutter, author of The Troop\n"I've seen the future and it's bizarre, it's beautifully berserk, it's Jeremy Robert Johnson." 
―Stephen GrahamJones, author of The Only Good Indians\n"Jeremy writes like his brain is on fire and he's in no rush to put it out." 
—Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song\n"A dazzling writer." 
―Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club\n"One of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. Jeremy Robert Johnson's work has always tested the limits of both genre and literaryfiction." 
―Bookslut\n"Jeremy Robert Johnson is dancing to a way different drummer. He loves language, he loves the edge, and he loves us people. This is entertainment...and literature." 
―Jack Ketchum, author of The Girl Next Door\n"Waaaay out at the deep end of the collective unconscious—where even the bravest of brain cells fear to tread—Jeremy Robert Johnson performs stand-up comedy for the gods. And their laughter is a marvelous, terrible thing. He's the kind of post-Lovecraftian genius berserker who makes the Great Old Ones new again. As with Clive Barker, there is no glorious mutational eruption that Johnson can't nail directly through your gawping mind's eye." 
—John Skipp, NY Times Bestselling author of Spore (w/Cody Goodfellow) and The Bridge (w/Craig Spector)

All the Wrong Ideas

Humor & Satire

"Unputdownable Fans of The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, and Stranger Things will be especially thrilled.", Publishers Weekly, starred review. 
Stranger Things meets The X-Files in this heart-racing conspiracy thriller as a lonely young woman teams up with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town overcome by a science experiment gone wrong. 
Something sinister lurks beneath the sleepy tourist town of Turner Falls nestled in the hills of central Oregon. A growing spate of mysterious disappearances and frenzied outbursts threaten the town's idyllic reputation until an inexplicable epidemic of violence spills out over the unsuspecting city. 
When the teenage children of several executives from the local biotech firm become ill and hyper-aggressive, the strange signal they can hear starts to spread from person to person, sending anyone who hears it into a murderous rage. Lucy and her outcast friends must fight to survive the night and get the hell out of town, before the loop gets them too.

The Loop

Genre Fiction

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