
'Angel Dust Apocalypse' by Jeremy Robert Johnson is a collection of bizarre and apocalyptic short stories that delve into themes like body modification, drug use, medical horrors, and the end of the world. The writing style is evocative, reminiscent of authors like Chuck Palahniuk and Lovecraft, with a focus on vivid imagery and exploring the darker aspects of human nature. The stories range from post-nuclear apocalypse scenarios to tales of mental illness and body exploration, creating a unique and unsettling reading experience.
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Content warnings include themes of drug use, mental illness, body horror, and explicit descriptions of trauma.
From The Publisher:
As of 2021 all of these stories reappear across the collections ENTROPY IN BLOOM and ALL THE WRONG IDEAS!
Meth-heads, man-made monsters, and murderous Neo-Nazis. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead. They're all here, trying to claw their way free.
From the radioactive streets of a war-scarred future, where the nuclear bombs have become self-aware, to the fallow fields of Nebraska where the kids are mainlining lightning bugs, this is a world both alien and intensely human. This is a place where self-discovery involves scalpels and horse tranquilizers; where the doctors are more doped-up than the patients; where obsessive-compulsive acid-freaks have unlocked the gateway to God and can't close the door.
This is not a safe place. You can turn back now, or you can head straight into the heart of...
the ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE
About the Author:
Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of the critically-acclaimed collection ENTROPY IN BLOOM as well as the breakthrough cult novel SKULLCRACK CITY. His fiction has been acclaimed by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, authors such as David Wong and Jack Ketchum, and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines.
In 2008 he worked with The Mars Volta to tell the story behind their Grammy Winning album The Bedlam in Goliath. In 2010 he spoke about weirdness and metaphor as a survival tool at the Fractal 10 conference in Medellin, Colombia.
Jeremy is at work on a host of new books. For more information: www.jeremyrobertjohnson.com.
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