All the Wrong Ideas

This is where our worst impulses take us. This is the past come back to do much more than haunt us. These are the moments where we cross into madness, never to return. This is what happens when we devote ourselves wholeheartedly to acting out...\nALL THE WRONG IDEAS\nFrom parasite-riddled pulp experiments to post-apocalyptic road trip freak-outs, from suddenly self-aware nuke narratives to tales of revenge told in reverse, ALL THE WRONG IDEAS collects the earliest and most absurd stories from bestselling weird fiction phenomenon Jeremy Robert Johnson in one wild, wondrous volume. Includes the novella "Extinction Journals," the brand new short story "The Seat of Reason," and 17 other unsettling entry points into JRJ's dark, delirious, and definitively damaged world.\n"Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human."―Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses\n"I've seen the future and it's bizarre, it's beautifully berserk, it's Jeremy Robert Johnson."―Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians\n"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\nFrom the Inside Flap\n"A master of mood, seamlessly combining the literary with the grotesque. Johnson deserves to be a household name..."
―Publishers Weekly\n"Genre-bending...haunting..."
―The Washington Post\n"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."
―B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog\n"[A] fantastic new voice in mainstream fiction..."
—Los Angeles Review of Books\n"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\n"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\n"Johnson writes with an energy that propels you through some very dark spaces indeed and into something profoundly unsettling but nonetheless human."
―Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses\n"Reading Johnson, you feel you are in the grip of an immensely powerful, possibly malevolent, but fiercely intelligent mind."
―Nick Cutter, author of The Troop\n"I've seen the future and it's bizarre, it's beautifully berserk, it's Jeremy Robert Johnson."
―Stephen GrahamJones, author of The Only Good Indians\n"Jeremy writes like his brain is on fire and he's in no rush to put it out."
—Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song\n"A dazzling writer."
―Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club\n"One of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. Jeremy Robert Johnson's work has always tested the limits of both genre and literaryfiction."
―Bookslut\n"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, author of The Girl Next Door\n"Waaaay out at the deep end of the collective unconscious—where even the bravest of brain cells fear to tread—Jeremy Robert Johnson performs stand-up comedy for the gods. And their laughter is a marvelous, terrible thing. He's the kind of post-Lovecraftian genius berserker who makes the Great Old Ones new again. As with Clive Barker, there is no glorious mutational eruption that Johnson can't nail directly through your gawping mind's eye."
—John Skipp, NY Times Bestselling author of Spore (w/Cody Goodfellow) and The Bridge (w/Craig Spector)