Shout Kill Revel Repeat

by Scott R Jones

Overview

On a mission to recover an ancient artifact, an amnesiac girl unlocks the terrible secret of humanity’s past and future. The implementation of a radical new technology sends an unlucky test pilot into a dimension of enlightenment and horror. A mystic obsessed with higher-order camouflage uncovers the true face of the world. Lovers on a wilderness trek encounter the unspeakable in a place where time and space turn on themselves. A harmless question posed to a Ouija board unleashes an unusual plague. And a crack team of mutants and monstrosities storms the stronghold of a mad god in a last-ditch effort to rescue Reality itself from delirium and decay.

In Shout Kill Revel Repeat, the debut collection of short fiction from Scott R. Jones, you’ll be introduced to nihilistic shapeshifters, deranged billionaire magicians, surf champions, survivalists, sadists, and soldiers, all of whom learn that to live is to enter into a never-ending cycle of fury and fear, dark revelation and deepest regret.

Shout. Kill. Revel. Repeat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950305094
Publisher:	Trepidatio Publishing
Publication date:	12/06/2019
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Scott R. Jones is a Canadian writer living in Victoria, BC, with his wife and two frighteningly intelligent spawn. His stories have appeared in many anthologies in the past decade, as well as Innsmouth Magazine, Pseudopod, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, among others. He's also the author of the non-fiction work When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R'lyehian Spirituality (Martian Migraine Press) and the editor of the anthologies RESONATOR: New Lovecraftian Tales From Beyond; Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis; A Breath from the Sky: Unusual Stories of Possession; and Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth. He was once kicked out of England for some very good reasons.

Editorial Reviews

11/04/2019

Jones (Transmissions from Punktown) conjures monsters, mayhem, and madness in these 17 inventive cosmic horror stories. In “The Spike,” a laboratory assistant is duped by his company’s charismatic but unscrupulous founder into serving as the living conduit for a horrific otherworldly singularity. “Ka Nipihat Wetigowa” draws on native Canadian legends to tell of two brothers who battle a flesh-eating wetigo amid the carnage of a WWI battlefield. In the dark future of “Last Stand at Cougar Annie’s,” women unite into matriarchal clans to fight for survival against a monstrously mutated male populace. A serial killer monologues to his therapist in “The Chrysanthemum,” one of three stories original to the book, revealing that he believes he must kill people in order to break their “shells” and thus enlighten them to the coming apocalypse. Each of the collection’s dark tales offers a glimpse at otherworldly possibilities via a skillful blend of science fiction and supernatural elements. These strange, chilling stories push genre boundaries to excellent effect. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

"Scott R. Jones is a genuine master of horror, thoroughly contemporary and at the same time rooted in the best traditions of the field. His work ranges from heights of cosmic awe to the depths of the darkest psychology, and I predict he has by no means finished astonishing us. May he carry his uncanny flame into territories he has yet to reveal, as only he can." —Ramsey Campbell, author of The Grin of the Dark and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach

“Scott R. Jones is a psychonaut, a visionary, a marauder who forays into the farthest corners of the psyche, from which fathomless hollows he brings you these seventeen dark gems. There’s horror to be found here, and SF, and stories that defy classification—but the hand that takes yours and guides you through is steady, with a strong, steely grip. He is a writer—and these are stories—of consequence.” —Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination and Creeping Waves

"Jones' fiction is a shot of DMT harvested from the re-animated corpse of an elder god injected straight into your de-calcifying third eye. Shout Kill Revel Repeat is entheogenic cosmic horror all the way down." —Jonathan Raab, author of The Lesser Swamp Gods of Little Dixie

"Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is a conceptual pearl worth preserving in spite of the hermetic shell of his racism and misogyny and the long-expired pulp cliches within. But where so many modern authors haphazardly grind up shell and meat and get only echoes of anachronistic chills, Scott R. Jones extracts and mounts the pearl in a post-everything setting that artfully restores its nihilistic luster. Cyberpunk eyeball-kicks! Post-human paranoia! Corporate eschatology! But seriously, what Jones understands so well that separates him from the rest of us Innsmouth-breathers is not the power of the Mythos to untether our fragile minds, but our ability to adapt to and normalize the unthinkable." —Cody Goodfellow, author of Radiant Dawn and Unamerica

“In Shout Kill Revel Repeat, Scott R. Jones blends mind-blowing science fiction and mysticism with Lovecraftian concepts, stunningly mutated into unique configurations to excite even the most jaded Mythos reader. Throughout this standout debut collection, there are compelling themes of identity, transformation, and inescapable doom, enacted against vivid backgrounds both mundane and nightmarishly alien. With his staggering imagination and beautiful prose voice, Jones proves himself to be among the absolute best of our contemporary writers of weird fiction.” —Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown

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