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John Hornor Jacobs' first novel, Southern Gods, was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His young adult series, The Incarcerado Trilogy comprised of The Twelve-Fingered Boy, The Shibboleth, and The Conformity, was described by Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing as amazing and received a starred Booklist review. His Fisk & Shoe fantasy series composed of The Incorruptibles, Foreign Devils, and Infernal Machines has thrice been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Award and was described by Patrick Rothfuss like so: One part ancient Rome, two parts wild west, one part Faust. A pinch of Tolkien, of Lovecraft, of Dante. This is strange alchemy, a recipe I've never seen before. I wish more books were as fresh and brave as this. His fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Apex Magazine. Follow him on Twitter at @johnhornor. Chuck Wendig is the author of the Miriam Black thrillers (which begin with Blackbirds) and numerous other works across books, comics, games, and more. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the cowriter of the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus, he is also known for his popular blog, terribleminds.com. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.
The audacity of Jacobs to write two brilliant, hallucinatory, terrifying short novels that mash up South American poetry and politics, pre-WWII American folk songs, all-too-human depravity and longing, and cosmic horror. And then present them in one of the best books of the year. Damn him. -- Paul Tremblay, author of <em>A Head Full of Ghosts</em> and <em>The Cabin at the End of the World</em> This book is Jacobs at his monstrous best. The tales read like whispered secrets from the mutant offspring of Lovecraft and Borges. Hornor understands that real horror doesn't just exist in far-flung regions, but is as close as a glimpse of text or a snatch of song. -- Richard Kadrey, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The Grand Dark</em> A Lush and Seething Hell expands the borders of cosmic horror and reveals John Hornor Jacobs for what he's always been: a quiet master among us. A beautiful, haunting book full of beautiful, haunting prose. This is the best of what horror can be. -- Andy Davidson, author of <em>In the Valley of the Sun</em> John Hornor Jacobs conjures secret histories infused with the truths of real ones, turning the dark material of the twentieth century into shadowy new mythos. This is a horror novel with politics, one that uses the fantastic to put a mirror up to our most dreadful capacities. -- Christopher Brown, Campbell and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of TROPIC OF KANSAS and RULE OF CAPTURE In A Lush and Seething Hell Jacobs shows how a novella can do everything a novel can do and do it better - and he shows it twice. Two excellent, unsettling pieces about forbidden knowledge, lost souls, and struggling selves, one set in Latin America, the other in the American South. Having them together in the same book is like listening to two ghosts talk to one another. -- Brian Evenson, Guggenheim fellow and award-winning author of <em>Song for the Unraveling of the World</em>, <em>Last Days</em>, and <em>The Warren</em> The title of the collection, A Lush And Seething Hell, is both an invitation and a warning. The horror is seductive and smart, both beautiful and terrifying. -- Jason Murphy, screenwriter and author of <em>The Black Goat Motorcycle Club</em> <em></em> A Lush and Seething Hell is what would happen if Nabakov and Faulkner were reborn and decided to collaborate on a pair of psychological horror tales. Frightening, suspenseful, and full of humanity, this book showcase one of the most original voices in fiction. -- Jonathan Janz, Author of <em>The Dark Game</em>, <em>The Siren and the Specter</em>, and <em>Children of the Dark</em> In A Lush and Seething Hell, John Hornor Jacobs shines a light on the unimaginable, and then plunges gleefully deeper, into the abyss. We worry about his characters. We worry about our own sanity, too. Jacobs' work is some of the smartest and most creative fiction I've read. -- Sarah Langan, Stoker Award-winning author of <em>Good Neighbors</em>
