A dark medical comedy that is a picture book for grownups. Horror/science fiction. Stories set within the surreal and disturbing "Facility" environment of "The Pain Doctors of Suture Self General."

Pain & Other Petty Plots to Keep You in Stitches

Edwards, Mark

Johnson, Jeremy Robert

Fox, Randy

Clark, Alan M.

Guinn, Troy

IFD Publishing

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

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Loop

The year's most brutal, cinematic thrill ride is also one of its most critically acclaimed novels. Dazed and Confused meets 28 Days Later in this "wickedly entertaining," (Kirkus Reviews) "volcano of a book" (Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds) 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. A Best Book of the Month for Den of Geek, Omnivoracious, Mystery & Suspense, and Tor. A Goodreads' 2020 Readers Choice Nominee for Best Horror, and one of the Best Books of 2020 for The Lineup, Booked, and Unsettling Reads. Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of central Oregon. When a terrifying outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence. The Loop is a "wild and wonderfully scary novel" (Richard Chizmar, author of Gwendy's Magic Feather) that offers a "hilarious and horrifying" (Brian Keene, author of The Rising) look at what one team of misfits can accomplish as they fight to live through the night. "[A] harrowing thrill ride of the first order and an uncompromising page-turner, easily securing its spot as one of the best novels of 2020." --Rue Morgue (featured "Dante's Pick" Review) "Like the best of Crichton or Bentley, it is a great beach read, but it is infused with the neon blood of a brave new writer... [A] kind of literary roller coaster. It will take you to thrilling highs and terrifying lows..." --Los Angeles Review of Books "The Loop is the gore-soaked, anxiety-inducing, diabolically funny Richard Linklater/David Cronenberg mashup you never knew you wanted but can't--or at least shouldn't--live without." --The Big Thrill "Unputdownable...Fans of The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, and Stranger Things will be especially thrilled." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A satisfyingly dark satire of, well, everything...[a] heart-pounding and deeply unsettling tale." --Booklist "The Loop is a remarkably propulsive novel, cinematic in the best way, with perfectly tuned tension and excellent character choices...a headlong, straightforward pleasure." --Locus "The Loop is the Cronenberg film we never got." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds

United States

S&S/Saga Press

The year's most brutal, cinematic thrill ride is also one of its most critically acclaimed novels. Dazed and Confused meets 28 Days Later in this "wickedly entertaining," (Kirkus Reviews) "volcano of a book" (Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds) 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.\nA Best Book of the Month for Den of Geek, Omnivoracious, Mystery & Suspense, and Tor.\nA Goodreads' 2020 Readers Choice Nominee for Best Horror, and one of the Best Books of 2020 for The Lineup, Booked, and Unsettling Reads.\nTurner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of central Oregon. When a terrifying outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence.\nThe Loop is a "wild and wonderfully scary novel" (Richard Chizmar, author of Gwendy's Magic Feather) that offers a "hilarious and horrifying" (Brian Keene, author of The Rising) look at what one team of misfits can accomplish as they fight to live through the night.\n"[A] harrowing thrill ride of the first order and an uncompromising page-turner, easily securing its spot as one of the best novels of 2020." --Rue Morgue (featured "Dante's Pick" Review)\n"Like the best of Crichton or Benchley, it is a great beach read, but it is infused with the neon blood of a brave new writer... [A] kind of literary roller coaster. It will take you to thrilling highs and terrifying lows..." --Los Angeles Review of Books\n"The Loop is the gore-soaked, anxiety-inducing, diabolically funny Richard Linklater/David Cronenberg mashup you never knew you wanted but can't--or at least shouldn't--live without." --The Big Thrill\n"Unputdownable...Fans of The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, and Stranger Things will be especially thrilled." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n"A satisfyingly dark satire of, well, everything...[a] heart-pounding and deeply unsettling tale." --Booklist\n"The Loop is a remarkably propulsive novel, cinematic in the best way, with perfectly tuned tension and excellent character choices...a headlong, straightforward pleasure." --Locus\n"The Loop is the Cronenberg film we never got." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds

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 hardcover 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.

Entropy in Bloom: Stories

Night Shade

"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. 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 is original, utterly insane, and a shitload of fun."--DAVID WONG, author of John Dies at the End You weren't always an agent of the apocalypse. 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. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason. Now Doyle's doing his best to survive against a nightmare cabal of crooked conglomerates, DNA-doped mutants, drug-addled freak show celebs, experimental surgeons, depraved doomsday cults, and the ultra-bad mojo of a full-blown Hexadrine habit. Joined by his pet turtle Deckard, and Dara, a beautiful missionary with a murderous past, Doyle must find a way to save humankind and fight the terrible truth at the heart of... SKULLCRACK CITY

Skullcrack City

Literary

Eraserhead Pr

THE MINDBLOWING CULT CLASSIC RETURNS!\n"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. 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 is original, utterly insane, and a shitload of fun."―DAVID WONG, author of John Dies at the End\nYou weren't always an agent of the apocalypse. 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?\nLife as a corporate drone was killing S.P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason.\nNow Doyle's doing his best to survive against a nightmare cabal of crooked conglomerates, DNA-doped mutants, drug-addled freak show celebs, experimental surgeons, depraved doomsday cults, and the ultra-bad mojo of a full-blown Hexadrine habit. Joined by his pet turtle Deckard, and Dara, a beautiful missionary with a murderous past, Doyle must find a way to save humankind and fight the terrible truth at the heart of...\nSKULLCRACK CITY\nFrom the Inside Flap\nWINNER OF THE WONDERLAND BOOK AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL.\nNominated for Novel of the Year in the 2015 This Is Horror Awards.\nIncluded on the following Best of 2015 Lists: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Top 10, Entropy Top 50, Booked Top 3, Brian Keene/The Horror Show Top 10, Powell's Small Press Bestsellers, Demon Theory Solid Reads 2015, Spinetingler Top Reads, Spontaneous Combustion Top 10, Shotgun Logic Top 15, Postcards from a Dying World Top 10\n"Genre-bending...haunting and humorous."―THE WASHINGTON POST\n"Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape."―LAIRD BARRON, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All\n"It's the god-damnedest novel you're liable to read this year: dizzyingly smart, fast, funny, and horrifying, bursting at the seams with the kind of 21st-century subversive post-cyber/splatterpunk renegade ideas you've been needing even more than you knew, and strangely, deeply moving on top. [I]mmense as the plot may seem, it's all building to a grand finale of genuine Philip K. Dickian mindblow proportions. And when it pays off, it pays off like crazy. Skullcrack City is a game-changer."―FANGORIA\n"Skullcrack City's blend of genres, breakneck pacing, brutality, and dashes of philosophy and social critique serve to cement Johnson as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. Skullcrack City is a smart, incredibly well-researched, and painfully plausible look at our immediate future. Jeremy Robert Johnson's work has always tested the limits of both genre and literary fiction and this novel proves that there's still new ground to tread and that he's already on it."―BOOKSLUT\n"F***ing incredibly well written and really entertaining the whole time. Wholly original--it's a gem. Without question a FIVE STAR book."―BOOKED\n"Jeremy Robert Johnson is a f***ing wizard. The final third of the book is a masterpiece. Skullcrack City is a journey that f***s with your mind and plays with your heart. You need to pick up this book and read it for yourself."―TIFFANY SCANDAL at SUICIDE GIRLS\n"Read the hell out of Skullcrack City. It's magnificent. Like The Wolf of Wall Street meets Scanners."―ROBERT BROCKWAY, author of The Unnoticeables\n"Jeremy Robert Johnson is a madman. [Skullcrack City] was worth the wait...the end is both unexpected and rewarding."―WILLAMETTE WEEK\n"Like James Ellro

Coevolution Press

Simon & Schuster Audio

"Jeremy Robert Johnson's novella of the apocalypse is a supremely weird reading experience, sitting somewhere between Chuck Palahniuk and John Wyndham. Extinction Journals is a hybrid, a mutant child of 1950's paranoia and contemporary dystopia. Bleak, funny, apocalyptic and affecting, it stays with you long after you've finished it."--THE ZONE (UK) You can survive a nuclear blast. All you need is some luck, and maybe a customized business suit coated in cockroaches. It could work. At least that's what Dean believed before the bombs actually dropped and his suit led him to murder a Very Important Man at the foot of a blackened obelisk. Now D.C. is looking awfully empty. Life on Earth is pretty much coming to an end. All of which leaves Dean with a single question--"What now?" The answer to that question will take him on an uncanny voyage across a newly nuclear America where he must confront the problems associated with loneliness, radiation, love, and an ever-evolving cockroach suit with a mind of its own. Dean's bizarre adventures mark the last chronicle of human existence, the final entries in our species' own... EXTINCTION JOURNALS

Extinction Journals

Swallowdown Pr

As of 2017 the majority of these stories have been republished in Night Shade Books' critically-acclaimed JRJ omnibus ENTROPY IN BLOOM! WINNER OF THE WONDERLAND AWARD FOR BEST COLLECTION! "WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is fucking terrific. Jeremy Robert Johnson is dancing to a way different drummer. He loves language, he loves the edge, and he loves us people. These stories have range and style and wit. This is entertainment... and literature."--JACK KETCHUM, author of Off Season, The Girl Next Door, and The Woman (w/Lucky McKee) We are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now. We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness. We are the lie on your lips, the collapsing star in your heart, and the still-warm gun in your shaking hands. The illusion of control is all we'll allow you, and no matter what you do... WE LIVE INSIDE YOU

We Live Inside You

Swallowdown Press

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Pain & Other Petty Plots to Keep You in Stitches

Siren Promised

The Loop

The Loop

Entropy in Bloom: Stories

Skullcrack City

Skullcrack City

The Loop

Extinction Journals

We Live Inside You