John Hornor Jacobs' first novel, Southern Gods, was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel. His young adult series, The Incarcerado Trilogy was described by Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing as "amazing" and received a starred Booklist review. His Fisk & Shoe fantasy series 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.
“Falling somewhere between House of Leaves (2000) and The
Blair Witch Project, it is a terrifying, gothic descent into
madness.This book has a fitting title if there ever was one, and
these nightmares are worth every penny.” — Kirkus
Reviews (starred review)
“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 A
Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
“There are horror writers who plant you in the cemetery
and show you the old grave where the ghoul resides. Then there are
writers like Jacobs, who ditch many of the genre’s standard tools
while staying true to its essential heart. [...] These stories
stitch Lovecraftian cosmic horror into terrestrial elements like
murder ballads, and the result is a fiercely original and
disquieting work. A must-have for any serious horror collection.” —
Booklist (starred review)
“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, New York Times
bestselling author of The Grand Dark
“In Jacobs’s work, the present is held in a manacled grip
by the foolishness and horrors of the past. His writing is
meticulous, detailed, and atmospheric, evoking a sense of place and
suspense in equal turns. Horror readers will enjoy Jacobs’s dark
vision of human nature.” — Publishers Weekly
“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 In the Valley of the Sun
“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
“For horror fans, certainly, it is an absolute must-read.” —
B&N Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog
“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 Song for the
Unraveling of the World, Last Days, and The Warren
“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 The Black Goat Motorcycle Club
“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 The Dark Game, The Siren
and the Specter, and Children of the Dark
“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
Good Neighbors
“Jacobs’s A LUSH AND SEETHING HELL is a one-two punch of
thoroughly entertaining and richly realized cosmic horror that
sends you reeling through a dark and unsettling world. Pays loving
homage to its forbears while creating its own beautiful nightmares
from the horrors of human history. JHJ’s singular combination of
existential dread and menace from beyond had me spellbound and
reading through the night.” — Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of
Entropy in Bloom
“Unsettling and incisive, these collected novellas
illuminate the brutality of recent history and the cruelty--both
heartwrenchingly mundane and more eldritch-leaning--of those in
power.” — Caitlin Starlin, author of The Luminous Dead
“John Hornor Jacobs is a writer’s writer. His prose is
gloomily sublime and layered with shadow. Be warned though: These
stories may well be haunted. They stick around to whisper their
melodies in the dark long after you finish reading.” — Jaye Wells,
author of High Lonesome Sound
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