Skullcrack City

WONDERLAND BOOK AWARD Nominated for Novel of the Year in the 2015 This Is Horror Awards. Included on the following Best of 2015 Lists: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Top 10, Entropy Top 50, Booked Top 3, Brian Keene/The Horror Show Top 10, Powell's Small Press Bestsellers, Demon Theory Solid Reads 2015, Spinetingler Top Reads, Spontaneous Combustion Top 10, Shotgun Logic Top 15, Postcards from a Dying World Top 10 THE MINDBLOWING CULT CLASSIC RETURNS! You weren't always an agent of the apocalypse. You used to be a banker. Who knew that too much coffee and a few bad decisions would lead to the end of the world? Life as a corporate drone was killing S.P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason. Now Doyle's doing his best to survive against a nightmare cabal of crooked conglomerates, DNA-doped mutants, drug-addled freak show celebs, experimental surgeons, depraved doomsday cults, and the ultra-bad mojo of a full-blown Hexadrine habit. Joined by his pet turtle Deckard, and Dara, a beautiful missionary with a murderous past, Doyle must find a way to save humankind and fight the terrible truth at the heart of... ► A nightmarish yet hilarious journey that begins in the ugly world of toxic mortgages and progresses to the slightly uglier world of brain-eating monsters lurking in dark alleys. You're in for an entirely unpredictable ride, the tale spinning ludicrously out of control as the hero uncovers layer after grotesque layer of a vast macabre conspiracy. SKULLCRACK CITY is original, utterly insane, and a shitload of fun. ◄ DAVID WONG, author of John Dies at the End ► SKULLCRACK CITY messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape. ◄ LAIRD BARRON, author of The Imago Sequence ► It's the god-damnedest novel you're liable to read this year: dizzyingly smart, fast, funny, and horrifying, bursting at the seams with the kind of 21st-century subversive post-cyber/splatterpunk renegade ideas you've been needing even more than you knew, and strangely, deeply moving on top. [I]mmense as the plot may seem, it's all building to a grand finale of genuine Philip K. Dickian mindblow proportions. And when it pays off, it pays off like crazy. SKULLCRACK CITY is a game-changer. ◄ FANGORIA * First published in 2015 by 2015 Lazy Fascist Press Cover [art] by Jeff Soto