“a great read … powerful and jarring”
For my Eidolon Avenue?
For real??????
(cue collapse onto the fainting couch)
Read the rest of the review over here.
Available now from Crystal Lake Publishing
Monthly Archives: January 2016
violent tsunamis of bitter guilt
A peek at “The Scariest Part” for me of writing Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast.
“Click” was scary because…how can I put this? It was scary because why it was happening was coming from a mindset that could never be mine. The reasoning behind the cruelty, the quiet joy taken in it, the victim’s confusion shifting into realization and then terror, the whole thing turned my stomach. Put a lump in my throat. An insistent thump, thump, thumping in my head. Sent me to bed at night drowning in violent tsunamis of bitter guilt. I actually more than once — more than twice, to be honest — stopped midsentence, stood up and stepped outside just to get away from Apartment 1C.
Read the rest over on Nicholas Kaufman’s fantastic blog.
And Eidolon? Available now from Crystal Lake Publishing
“in your face horror at its best”
A small snippet from a new review of Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast:
Don’t let the “Mature Content” label throw you off, this is just plain old explicit in your face horror at its best.
But go ahead and check out the full review. It’s worth it.
Available now from Crystal Lake Publishing
“a suffocating walk with a black hood”
Another blurb for Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast from the astonishingly talented Alessandro Manzetti:
“Jonathan Winn’s Eidolon Avenue is a suffocating walk with a black hood above your face, you can only smell the fear trapped in rotten flesh, listen to the blood’s poetry and trample pulsating shreds of humanity. Even if you’re in the darkness, the pages of this book will become your new eyes. Highly Recommended.” – Alessandro Manzetti, Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Author of Eden Underground.
Available now from Crystal Lake Publishing
“a wrench to the skull”
From another review of Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast
This is what horror should be, at least, it’s the what I like my horror to be. Not only graphic and lurid, but beautiful, jarring and unnerving as well. Weighing heavy on the mind and spirit. Violently abducting you from your safe place, shattering your comfort zone with a wrench to the skull. Applying a constant pressure on the (constantly constricting) boundaries of what is deemed socially acceptable.
This is my horror. And like a pastor in the church of horror, this is the book that I’ll be preaching to my congregation.
But there’s more! Read it here.
And then check out the book from Crystal Lake Publishing
“well written slices of hell”
A peek at a new review for Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast
Eidolon Avenue is a collection of novellas that will take you to places that are disturbingly horrific and visceral. Places filled with hungry ghosts and monsters that are all too human … All of the novellas in this collection are well written slices of hell.
Read the whole thing here.
Available now from Crystal Lake Publishing
“a voice unlike any other”
“Each apartment holds something truly horrifying and disconcerting. Even when fantastical elements are introduced, Winn grounds the story with grim realities. Violent and graphic, the actions and thoughts of each tenant push the boundaries of comfort. There are flourishes of intensely dark content, both physical and psychological, within the pages of this story. It never goes to Edward Lee extremes, but this is classic splatterpunk by way of early Clive Barker and Jack Ketchum with the unhinged way Robert Bloch can get under your skin.
This is truly adult horror.
A voice unlike any other, Eidolon Avenue is a masterclass effort in horror literature.”
Read the full review of Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (available now from Crystal Lake Publishing) here.
Thank you
After months of writing, months of editing, revising and rewriting, months of marketing and planning, months of hoping and worrying and happiness and fear, Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast is finally officially live.
Go ahead and make my day by picking up your copy here.
But before I go, it’s worth mentioning those who helped make this possible. Because if these folks hadn’t stood by my side, Eidolon would not have been possible.
So, thank you.
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