Jeremy Robert Johnson

JRJ bio "A master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Johnson deserves to be a household name…" —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Genre-bending...haunting and humorous." —THE WASHINGTON POST

"Johnson captures humanity's absurdity, our grotesqueries, sometimes our triumphs, all the while pushing past the limits of reality, transforming it into something dark, and surreal, and unforgettable." —BARNES & NOBLE SCI-FI AND FANTASY BLOG

"A powerful imagination, a great talent for storytelling, writing chops that allow him to tackle any genre, and a flowing, dynamic voice that, if Johnson were a singer, would extend to an impressive eight octaves." —ELECTRIC LITERATURE

"Surreal, visceral, and frequently unsettling...One more descriptor, while we're at it: highly entertaining. Johnson brings a pulpy urgency to the page, which blends neatly with the frequently heady concepts that he utilizes in his fiction." —TOR.COM

"One of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. Jeremy Robert Johnson's work has always tested the limits of both genre and literary fiction." —BOOKSLUT

"Not unlike David Foster Wallace's wicked and perhaps deranged younger brother." —21C MAGAZINE

"A dazzling writer." —CHUCK PALAHNIUK

"Jeremy Robert Johnson is dancing to a way different drummer. He loves language, he loves the edge, and he loves us people. This is entertainment...and literature." —JACK KETCHUM

"Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human." —BRIAN EVENSON

"I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years." —LAIRD BARRON

"Reading Johnson, you feel you are in the grip of an immensely powerful, possibly malevolent, but fiercely intelligent mind." —NICK CUTTER

"I've seen the future and it's bizarre, it's beautifully berserk, it's Jeremy Robert Johnson." —STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES

"The guy's a genius. Reminds me of William Gibson—the dark interest in altered states of consciousness, the unrelentingly furious forward movement, and the same kind of unlimited imagination." —BEN LOORY

"Jeremy Robert Johnson performs stand-up comedy for the gods. As with Clive Barker, there is no glorious mutational eruption that Johnson can't nail directly through your gawping mind's eye." —JOHN SKIPP

"In its most twisted moments, Johnson's writing is too gleeful to pigeon-hole as strictly horror, and when he steps outside the gross-out game he transcends most other straight literary writers." —VERBICIDE

"Johnson weaves vivid and fascinatingly grotesque tales." —BOOKGASM

"I don't know if Mr. Johnson sold his soul to the devil to give him this gift for nightmare imagery, but by god, this guy can write. Johnson excels at pathology and perversity. A confirmed weirdo and authentic writer of uncommon emotional depth who deserves to be watched." —CEMETERY DANCE

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 praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, authors such as David Wong, Chuck Palahniuk, 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. In 2017 his short story "When Susurrus Stirs" was adapted for film and won numerous awards including the Final Frame Grand Prize and Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. He is repped by Mollie Glick (Literary) and Jon Cassir (Book-to-Film) at CAA, and is at work on a host of new books.

Jeremy is intermittently social over at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter if you're into that. He does not have a newsletter even though everyone keeps saying, "Man, you gotta get a newsletter. That social media stuff is dying fast."