Bøger af Eirik Gumeny

On Ingolstadt Island, the INFERNAL ORGANS harvest you! There are, as Eliza Duran knows firsthand, any number of issues that can follow a lung transplant: surgical complications, infections, rejection. But having to confront all of her buried trauma and internalized isolation while attempting to escape a mad scientist's mansion overrun by a horror horde of rampaging organs hellbent on humanity's destruction? That's a new one, even for her. This brisk and brutal Frankenstein retelling, from the guy who ruined the end of the world in the Exponential Apocalypse series, is chock full of blood, guts, and the crippling existential terror that exists at the intersection of disability, capitalism, and societal ableism. Infernal Organs is the only novella about vicious, revivified viscera you'll ever need-and the only one written by someone who's actually had an organ transplant. And we mean, like, ever, in all of recorded history. So that's something it's got going for it, too.

In every laboratory, every experiment, there are two diametrical energies at play: chaos and control. The raw pandemonium of what is, and the diamond-sheen of what could be. And in between? Blood, bones, and broken hearts. Because no equation, no solution, will ever be able to contain the wild entropy of the human soul.Within these pages, you'll find reverse mermaids and vengeful shrew-women and bloated flesh-monsters tearing down the Golden Gate Bridge. A nurse waving a patient into a haunted MRI machine. A reimagined Mary Shelley obsessing about her galvanic guy. The dead will come back, organs will grow where you least expect them, and "healthy" will be outed as a disease all its own, the most damning by a long mile.Like the highest-born hopes of bodies sacrificed to progress, like the darkest dreams of the brains behind the beakers, mad science knows no bounds.Featuring new fiction from Katharine Duckett, A.T. Greenblatt, Ally Malinenko, Tyler Battaglia, Samantha H. Chung, Jonathan Fortin, Brianna Nicole Frentzko, Josh Hanson, Wade Hunter, M.W. Irving, Pooja Joshi, Andrew Kozma, K.L. Mill, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Violet Schwegler, and Nicole M. Wolverton. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.

The witching hour. The graveyard shift. Whether it's ghosts and gremlins or simply folks with nowhere else to go, the middle of the night has never been for the faint of heart. But what happens when the ones only there for the paycheck bump into the ones out for blood?Midnight turns the normal strange, and makes the strange normal. Within these pages, you'll find diners and doppelgangers and dead sisters, old gods and creatures of the night coming to hurt -- and help -- in equal measure.An anthology of horror for the graveyard shift, Open All Night features stories from J.A.W. McCarthy, Danger Slater, Lydia Bugg, Nathan Crowder, Megan Kiekel Anderson, Russ Bickerstaff, Tom Brennan, Laura Garrison, Shanna Germain, Elena Greer, Rik Hoskin, L.S. Johnson, Amanda Cecelia Lang, Steve Loiaconi, Bailee Smith-Garcia, and Patrick Tumblety. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.

For fans of SILO and THE HUNGER GAMES, from the cult-favorite author of the EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE series.After a secret rendezvous goes fatally awry, store-crossed lovers Rhea and Wren, sixteen-year-olds from opposite sides of the last truck stop in existence, find themselves hunted and on the run, forced to survive in the post-utopian wreckage of an alien-blighted civilization. They'll need to face down the impossible threats of a neverending desert, the atomic insects and sandstorms and the barren nothingness of a world rusted sharp, in search of a city that shouldn't be. The nights are long and the odds are bad, but Wren and Rhea wouldn't have it any other way. They're finally free, reveling in being alone, and together. But happiness is never easy at the end of everything, and soon enough - and with some unexpected help - the teenagers stumble upon a series of cascading discoveries that upend everything they thought they knew, leaving them reeling, reconsidering, and forced to reckon with what they owe the ones they left behind.

The world has ended twenty-six and a half times to date... but that's not about to stop it from trying again. The sun, after a particularly debaucherous evening, has stumbled across the horizon and flipped a giant, geomagnetic middle finger at the Earth, detonating nearly every transformer and power line on the planet and crippling the single electrical grid that powers North America. The world has been plunged back into the Boring Ages overnight. Although this means very little to anyone, as no one is able to Google when the Boring Ages were or how society got out of them the first time. With darkness looming, the economy crashing, and nobody's DVRs working, everything seems lost; humanity is one more unmicrowaved Hot Pocket away from eating itself alive. So now it's up to Thor, the former Norse God of Thunder, and the ragtag group of mercenary "heroes" he calls friends to set things right and hotwire the North American continent. HIGH VOLTAGE, the third novel in the EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE series, is the perfect jumping on point for new readers. All of the fast-paced humor and snark of the first two critically-acclaimed, best-selling books and none of the having to read them first. Witty and wired, HIGH VOLTAGE is the post-apocalyptic dark comedy for anyone who wishes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had more dick jokes or Clerks had more homicidal old lady ghosts. And, you know, was a book.

The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology! A collection of twenty short stories, rife with Jersey attitude, dark humor, and zombies and werebears and unicorns, oh my! Featuring fiction by Mike Sweeney, yt sumner, M.R. Lang, Gavin Broom, and more, the 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is without a doubt the single greatest collection of stories written by multiple authors released by Jersey Devil Press this summer. It's a veritable bacchanal of genre-straddling, clown-fearing, taco-hunting, world-ending prose! Did I mention monkeys? 'Cause there's monkeys, too. Everyone loves monkeys. You'd be a fool not to pick up a copy today! The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology includes stories by Kate Delany, Andrew Frankel, Z.Z. Boone, Jonathan Plombon, Bruce J. Berger, M.R. Lang, Ansley Moon, yt sumner, Louis Wittig, Christina Murphy, Kevin Brown, Danger_Slater, Ryan Werner, Stephen Schwegler, Jonathan H. Roberts, Gavin Broom, Jenny Ortiz, Daniel McDermott, and Mike Sweeney. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.

In a universe, in a galaxy, in a planetary system, in a world, in a hemisphere, in a continent, in a country, in a local municipality, in a house, in your hands sits a book so chock full of mind-bending stories that it would be a crime against nature to not make some toast, put on some pj pants, sit down and read it this very nanosecond. From a light-hearted dinner date to an all-out absurdist dystopian future about robot lubrication, SCATTERED TOGETHER has all this and so much more. Picking up where his last collection, PERHAPS., left off, Stephen Schwegler's newest pieces are more outlandish, more exhilarating and even a bit more heart-warming.

From living god Eirik Gumeny (CRACKED, THE NEW YORK TIMES) comes BLACK HOLE, SON! The fifth and final book in the EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE series! Following the events of REVENGE-ARONI, Thor Odinson and Queen Victoria XXX find themselves world famous and living high on the hog -- assuming that hog is depressed, a little agoraphobic, and literally high. But then! Explosions! Punching! Some other stuff! Hijinks -- and hilariousness and terrible awryness -- ensue. A note to new readers: This is not for you. This is not the place to start fresh. (You're gonna want to click on one of the other links on this page for that; Book One, Two, or Three should work just fine.) This here is a coda to the last ten years of EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE. A swan song, a last waltz, a tearful goodbye. BLACK HOLE, SON! is for the folks who want to see how it all ends. Not well, obviously. P.S. BLACK HOLE, SON! is also the shortest book in the series. More of a novella, really. A little shy of 25K words. So, you know, be ready for that.

Six months ago, Thor, the former Norse God of Thunder - along with the motley crew of political clones and cyborgs and psychic squirrels he calls his friends - saved the world. And, in a wholly unprecedented move, this time the world stayed saved. The frozen head of Walt Sidney is not happy about that. Like, at all. The bodiless businessman has pit his two top men against each other and sent them after the group, in a contest to see who can out-murder who. Because vengeance is a dish best served lukewarm and out of a can, heated over the smoldering remains of your enemies. Also, vengeance should be eaten with an officially licensed Lindsey Louse Spearin' Spork for maximum vengeance-ing. The fourth book in the EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE series, REVENGE-ARONI is smart, vulgar, and quite simply and with absolutely zero hyperbole, the single best post-apocalyptic book about borderline inept, mercenary heroes you will ever read. Filled with gallows humor and inventive swearing and run-on sentences, as well as sex, drugs, violence, and blatant attacks on artisanal coffee, REVENGE-ARONI will surely be looked back on as the piece of literature that saved humanity from both itself and the inevitable uprising of homicidal crab-people.

Thor, former Norse God of Thunder, has returned to his day job at the Secaucus Holiday Inn, surlier than ever. His Google alert for "Ragnarok" is bringing in fewer and fewer results, and he's beginning to think that the Twilight of the Gods might never come to free him from the hellish nightmare that is minimum-wage customer service. But then Timmy, a telekinetic, telepathic super-squirrel, comes skittering back into Thor's life, bruised and slightly smoking after having his tail handed to him by a two-hundred-year-old mad scientist in a robotic exoskeleton. The rodent needs help, and, despite his best intentions, that help is going to have to be Thor and his friends Chester A. Arthur XVII and Queen Victoria XXX. DEAD PRESIDENTS, the second book in the EXPONENTIAL APOCALYPSE series, continues where the first one left off, following Thor and company through a world rife with megalomanical clones, dinosaur armies, zombies, mad scientists, rhinos with lasers, and all manner of action and misadventure. Uproarious and unrestrained, DEAD PRESIDENTS puts the "doody" in doomsday and the "ha" in worldwide annihilation.