Jones is a writer, editor, and naturalized sorcerer living in Victoria, BC, Canada with his wife and two frighteningly intelligent spawn.
These strange, chilling stories push genre boundaries to excellent effect. Each of the collection’s dark tales offers a glimpse at otherworldly possibilities via a skillful blend of science fiction and supernatural elements. A serial killer monologues to his therapist in “The Chrysanthemum,” one of three stories original to the book, revealing that he believes he must kill people in order to break their “shells” and thus enlighten them to the coming apocalypse. In the dark future of “Last Stand at Cougar Annie’s,” women unite into matriarchal clans to fight for survival against a monstrously mutated male populace. “Ka Nipihat Wetigowa” draws on native Canadian legends to tell of two brothers who battle a flesh-eating wetigo amid the carnage of a WWI battlefield. In “The Spike,” a laboratory assistant is duped by his company’s charismatic but unscrupulous founder into serving as the living conduit for a horrific otherworldly singularity. Jones (Transmissions from Punktown) conjures monsters, mayhem, and madness in these 17 inventive cosmic horror stories.
Reviews: Publisher's Weekly on Publisher's Weekly wrote: Jones, you'll be introduced to nihilistic shapeshifters, deranged billionaire magicians, surf champions, survivalists, sadists, and soldiers, all of whom learn that to live is to enter into a never-ending cycle of fury and fear, dark revelation and deepest regret. In Shout Kill Revel Repeat, the debut collection of short fiction from Scott R. And a crack team of mutants and monstrosities storms the stronghold of a mad god in a last-ditch effort to rescue Reality itself from delirium and decay. A harmless question posed to a Ouija board unleashes an unusual plague. Lovers on a wilderness trek encounter the unspeakable in a place where time and space turn on themselves. A mystic obsessed with higher-order camouflage uncovers the true face of the world. The implementation of a radical new technology sends an unlucky test pilot into a dimension of enlightenment and horror.
On a mission to recover an ancient artifact, an amnesiac girl unlocks the terrible secret of humanity's past and future.
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