Entropy in Bloom: Stories

Available in hardcover for the first time, a collection of cult sensation Jeremy Robert Johnson’s best and most bizarre short fiction, including a brand-new, never-before-published novella.

For more than a decade, Jeremy Robert Johnson has been bubbling under the surface of both literary and genre fiction. His short stories present a brilliantly dark and audaciously weird realm where cosmic nightmares collide with all-too-human characters and apocalypses of all shapes and sizes loom ominously. In “Persistence Hunting,” a lonely distance runner is seduced into a brutal life of crime with an ever-narrowing path for escape. In “When Susurrus Stirs,” an unlucky pacifist must stop a horrifying parasite from turning his body into a sentient hive. Running through all of Johnson’s work is a hallucinatory vision and deeply-felt empathy, earning the author a reputation as one of today’s most daring and thrilling writers.

Featuring the best of his previously independently-published short fiction, as well as an exclusive, never-before-published novella “The Sleep of Judges” — where a father’s fight against the denizens of a drug den becomes a mind-bending suburban nightmare — Entropy in Bloom is a perfect compendium for avid fans and an ideal entry point for adventurous readers seeking the humor, heartbreak, and terror of JRJ’s strange new worlds.

Contents:

• An Introduction by Brian Evenson
• The League of Zeroes
• Persistence Hunting
• The Oarsman
• The Gravity of Benham Falls
• Dissociative Skills
• Snowfall
• When Susurrus Stirs
• Luminary
• Trigger Variation
• Cathedral Mother
• Swimming in the House of the Sea
• Saturn's Game
• The Sharp Dressed Man at the End of the Line
• A Flood of Harriers
• States of Glass
• The Sleep of Judges