Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth

“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 :

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  |

the rapt crowd at Texas State Cemetery (when we had to move indoors due to RL Stine fanpeople—'we' being Amelia Gray, Owen Egerton, Lindsay Hunter, and Carson Mell)
the rapt crowd at Texas State Cemetery (when we had to move indoors due to RL Stine fanpeople—’we’ being Amelia Gray, Owen Egerton, Lindsay Hunter, and Carson Mell), getting ready to hear some “The Age of Hasty Retreats”

From the set of Fear the Walking Dead:

thanks, @ari_loeb
Author: SGJ