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

Skullcrack City

Literature & Fiction

Johnson, Jeremy Robert

Genre Fiction

Coevolution 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

In the River

Jeremy Robert Johnson

Contemporary

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

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