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 Lovecratian 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.
Stonefish by Scott R. Jones
2020’s horror novel Stonefish by Scott R. Jones is not your basic horror novel. I tend to forget that, like every other genre, horror has an array of subgenres, styles, and tropes. Even so, it’s hard for me to “sum up” what kind of horror story Stonefish is. I’m settling for futuristic-dystopian-gnostic-phantasmagorical weird horror, with Sasquatch.
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Interesting! I have to say I had a "Jim and Huck underwater" moment, reading your synopsis.
No doubt about it--I have to read these.