“Much like the mad-but-brilliant scientists in this collection’s titular story, Jones has created the tales here with experimental glee, yielding an astonishing assortment of mutated manuscripts. The investigational ‘Let’s see what happens’ mentality at play in this collection means that the story about gigantic soul-storing moonshrimp will also be told by a dime store P.I. It means that elderly love and parenting are monster-mashed to deeper meaning. It means Kafka goes corporate inspector, basset hounds get sexy, and the aliens are popping up everywhere. It means you’ll get your Raymond Carver via dog food therapy and the Please-Let-It-Just-Fucking-Die world of zombie fiction gets repurposed twice in beautifully heart-rending ways. And yeah, there are hamsters. I’ll just say it-Jones went off the deep end this time. But it’s thrilling to watch an artist dive into their mind’s Marianas Trench and return with exploding oceanic oddities-Coltrane going from devilish smooth to full-stellar squonk, Aphex Twin going from ambient pharmacist to robot brain-masher. And here: Intrepid Writer Stephen Graham Jones going from the assured, human horror of earlier collection THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY to the outstanding aberrations of ZOMBIE SHARKS WITH METAL TEETH.”
-From the introduction by Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of We Live Inside You
Some of the stories from this collection :
- “Because My Therapist Asked Me To Tell a Story Using Hamsters” (@Hobart)
- “Old Meat” (Scored Audio Sample @Gutfish Radio)
- “How Billy Hanson Destroyed the Planet Earth, and Everyone On It” (@Juked)
- “Sea of Intranquility” (@Pank)
links: About the title story | Booked’s Podcast | Daniel Otto Jack Peterson | TNBBC | EWN (on the title story) | Ten to Infinity (on the first story) | ripped from the pages of “The Many Stages of Grief” | Pre-Shark Week (David James Keaton) | LitReactor |
From the set of Fear the Walking Dead:
is the NYT bestselling author of 35 or so books, +350 stories, some comic books, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots. More