Entropy in Bloom: Stories

Entropy in Bloom: Stories

<b>Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by <i>LitReactor</i> and <i>Big Other</i> and one of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Books Everyone Will Be Talking About by <i>Kirkus/Black Gate</i>.</b><br /><br /><b>Includes "When Susurrus Stirs," the basis for the award-winning motion picture of the same name.</b><br /><br />"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."―<b>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</b><br /><br /><b>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.</b><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Featuring the best of his independently-published short fiction, as well as an exclusive, never-before-published novella "The Sleep of Judges"<span>―</span>where a father's fight against the denizens of a drug den becomes a mind-bending suburban nightmare<span>―</span><i>Entropy in Bloom</i> 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.<br /><br /><b>Table of Contents:</b><div><i>An Introduction by Brian Evenson</i><br /><br />The League of Zeroes</div><div>Persistence Hunting</div><div>The Oarsman</div><div>The Gravity of Benham Falls</div><div>Dissociative Skills</div><div>Snowfall</div><div>When Susurrus Stirs</div><div>Luminary</div><div>Trigger Variation</div><div>Cathedral Mother</div><div>Swimming in the House of the Sea</div><div>Saturn's Game</div><div>The Sharp-Dressed Man at the End of the Line</div><div>A Flood of Harriers</div><div>States of Glass</div><div>The Sleep of Judges</div><div></div>