Jake's Wake

Pastor Jake promised his followers everlasting life…he just didn’t say what kind. So when the small-town televangelist and con man climbs out of his coffin at his own wake, it becomes Judgment Day for everyone gathered to mourn—or celebrate—his death. Jake is back, in the rotting flesh, filled with anger and vengeance. And accompanied by demons even more frightening than himself. What follows is a long night of endless terror, a blood-drenched rampage by the man not even death could stop.

From Publishers Weekly

Splatterpunk legend Skipp (Long Last Call) and up-and-comer Goodfellow (Ravenous Dusk) produce an outrageous gore fest about a preacher's reckless vow to be resurrected. Cable TV cult leader Jacob Connaway is mid-coitus with a congregant when her boyfriend stabs the preacher to death. As his unhappy widow, Esther, attempts to convince his lovers to testify to Jake's philandering and prevent the Church of Eternal Life from inheriting what Esther thinks should be hers, Jake lurches back to life and goes on a killing rampage, accompanied by demons. To Jake, the chance to take revenge on his backstabbing friends and to conclusively demonstrate that Christianity is a lie feels an awful lot like heaven; the ensuing bloodbath will terrify those who expect false prophets to be locked away in hell. (Jan.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author

John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow are renegade writers and genre rebels, stirring up trouble at the deep end of the horror pool with a wild combination of shocks, laughs, culture-clash ferocity, alarming intelligence, naked emotion, and a madly cinematic pace.John Skipp is a bona fide New York Times bestselling horror icon: ’80s splatterpunk poster child turned unlikely elder statesman, with millions of copies sold all over the world (and in a dozen languages). His seminal works with Skipp & Spector—The Light at the End, The Cleanup, The Scream, Dead Lines, The Bridge, Animals, and the Book of the Dead anthologies—have exerted a profound influence on modern horror fiction.Cody Goodfellow is a newcomer on the scene, who made his bones with the two-volume “Lovecraftian epic” Radiant Dawn and Ravenous Dusk. His unique, highly-literate blend of hardcore horror, speculative fiction, and techno-thriller became a small-press cult phenomenon, amongst his many fans was Skipp, who loudly proclaimed, “Unless I am utterly fucking crazy, Cody Goodfellow is one of the best virtually unknown horror writers on Earth.”Jake’s Wake is the first of their novels together.They both live in LA.

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