We Live Inside You

As of 2021 all of these stories reappear across the collections ENTROPY IN BLOOM and ALL THE WRONG IDEAS!WINNER OF THE WONDERLAND AWARD FOR BEST COLLECTION! "WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is f***ing terrific. Jeremy Robert Johnson is dancing to a way different drummer. He loves language, he loves the edge, and he loves us people. These stories have range and style and wit. This is entertainment... and literature."--JACK KETCHUM, author of Off Season, The Girl Next Door, and The Woman (w/Lucky McKee)We are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now.We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness. We are the lie on your lips, the collapsing star in your heart, and the still-warm gun in your shaking hands. The illusion of control is all we'll allow you, and no matter what you do...WE LIVE INSIDE YOU

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"What makes JRJ's work stand out from his contemporaries' isthe strange sense of empathy--in that regard he is not unlike David FosterWallace's wicked and perhaps deranged younger brother. Sometimes the horror is so understated that it's deadly. JRJ has the ability to balance sheer humanitywith sheer grotesquerie."--21C MAGAZINE "I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years."--LAIRD BARRON, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "A haunting collection from a wildly talented author, WELIVE INSIDE YOU is composed of nineteen perfectly-wrought nightmares, every oneof which will stay with you long after you've finished reading."--PETER CRAIG,author of Hot Plastic and Blood Father, co-screenwriter of TheTown"The people populating these stories are real and vital andyou WILL care, deeply, about what becomes of them... and in JRJ's harshuniverse, baaaaad things happen. Often. Prepare thyself."--CRAIGDAVIDSON, author of Rust and Bone, The Fighter, and SarahCourt"Favorite collection for 2011: WE LIVE INSIDE YOU."--STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES, author of The Ones That Got Away and It Came From Del Rio"The guy's a genius. Reminds me of William Gibson--the darkinterest in altered states of consciousness, the unrelentingly furious forwardmovement, and the same kind of unlimited imagination."--BEN LOORY, authorof Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day"Tongue-replacing isopods, brain-raping copepods andbody-warping worms are far from the most insidious parasites that infest JeremyRobert Johnson's hapless literary victims. Though the squirmy bits elegantlypioneer new frontiers of sickness, WE LIVE INSIDE YOU is at its most twistedand mordantly revelatory when it drops the body-horror metaphors and digs intothe real horror of all the parasitic drives that ride us--tapeworms of greed,lust like plagues of crab lice, and the lethal heartworms of true love. Sotightly written and so fluidly brutal you'll want to consume this psychosexualdemolition derby in one sitting, but you'll spend the rest of the nightchecking yourself under a microscope."--CODY GOODFELLOW, author of SilentWeapons for Quiet Wars and Radiant Dawn/Ravenous Dusk"Waaaay out at the deep end of the collectiveunconscious--where even the bravest of brain cells fear to tread--Jeremy RobertJohnson performs stand-up comedy for the gods. And their laughter is amarvelous, terrible thing. He's the kind of post-Lovecraftian geniusberserker who makes the Great Old Ones new again. As with Clive Barker,there is no glorious mutational eruption that Johnson can't nail directlythrough your gawping mind's eye."--JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestsellingauthor of Spore (w/Cody Goodfellow) and The Bridge (w/CraigSpector) "Four stars."--BOOKED"WE LIVE INSIDE YOUcontinues to showcase the author's staggering ability to craft stories aspoignant as they are strange. The gamut of emotion conjured between the firstand last page provides a workout for practically every muscle in a reader'smind. In its most twisted moments, Johnson's writing is toogleeful to pigeon-hole as strictly horror, and when he steps outside thegross-out game he transcends most other straight literary writers."--VERBICIDE"WE LIVE INSIDE YOU isa genre-bending mix of stories akin to a literary blitzkrieg and'Persistence Hunting' is one of the best noir stories you'll everread. Johnson can write horror, science fiction, crime, and Bizarro. Sometimes hedoes all of the above within the same story. He's at once brutal andelegant, innovative and an immediate classic, ridiculously talented andan obvious perfectionist."--HORROR TALK "Johnson weaves vivid and fascinatingly grotesque tales."--BOOKGASM"I don't know if Mr. Johnson sold his soul to the devil togive him this gift for nightmare imagery, but by god, this guy can write.Johnson excels at pathology and perversity. A confirmed weirdo and authenticwriter of uncommon emotional depth who deserves to be watched."--CEMETERYDANCE "Johnson is probably a few books away from doing for horrorwhat Jonathan Lethem did for science fiction. Plain and simple? Forget horror;this is good fiction."--GIRL ON DEMAND "The stories contained in this book would make even David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and William Burroughs' post-orgy crack baby jealous. They are everything horror should be: uncomfortable, gritty, and violent. Each story is unpredictable and haunting. I'm almost convinced that Jeremy Robert Johnson wrote these stories in the fit of a long PCP bender, stopping only to drink the blood of sacrificed virgins."--BEST HORROR NOVELS

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