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Jesus and John

Adam McOmber

Jesus and John is a Weird re-imagining of the New Testament as a novel of allegorical horror. John, a fisherman from a rural village on the shores of Galilee, is tasked with protecting the risen body of his lover who was crucified for disrupting Roman order in the city of Jerusalem. The body, having miraculously emerged from its cave-like tomb, refuses to speak and walks in a dream-like silence, disrupting the clear-cut message of the Apostle Peter and eventually leading John on a dangerous pilgrimage to a mysterious mansion in Rome known as the Gray Palace. There, the few inhabitants promise a celebration that may lead to a sacrifice John is unwilling to make. Incorporating Christian Gnosticism, Pagan dreams, and a contemporary will toward queer disruption, Adam McOmber's new novel tells a powerful story of devotion.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Lethe Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 1st, 2020
  • Pages: 234
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.53in - 0.57lb
  • EAN: 9781590216736
  • Categories: Horror - GeneralLGBTQ+ - GayFantasy - Historical

About the Author

McOmber, Adam: - Adam McOmber He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and in the Writing Program of the University of California Los Angeles Extension.

Praise for this book

"Terror and religion collide in McOmber's atmospheric, thought-provoking, and unapologetically queer exploration of devotion in a retelling of the resurrection as a horror allegory... Beautifully honoring the message of the New Testament while actively challenging its application, this is a tale of love, belief, and hope amid darkness, but it is also undeniably a horror tale, full of strange creatures and unearthly phenomena." - Booklist

"Adam McOmber's Jesus and John is an unsettling and sumptuously written reimagining of the gospels that blends religious and sensual ecstasy in a haunting and incantatory brew. Riveting and unmissable." - Robert Levy, author of The Glittering World and Anaïs Nin at the Grand Guignol

"There are many occult horror novels out there, but Jesus and John's fully articulated gnostic horror puts it in a class all its own--as if Lovecraft had rewritten the Nag Hammadi codices. Beautifully written, heretical, and profoundly humane, this is a book about destabilizing one's entire sense of reality and revealing the unreal lurking within." - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

"In Adam McOmber's lucid dream of a novel, the beloved disciple follows the risen Yeshua on a voyage across the sea to the eternal city. Within the streets of Rome, they will come to the door of a mysterious structure known as the Gray Palace, within whose walls wait horrors and revelations. A contemporary descendant of such works as Par Lagerkvist's Barabbas and Nikos Kazantzakis's Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus and John looks at the greatest story ever told through fresh, kaleidoscopic lenses and discovers marvels." - John Langan, author of Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies

"McOmber excels at crafting chilling revelations that are genuinely surprising even within this strange, hypnotic world. Fans of weird fiction will enjoy this uncanny, mystical tale." - Publishers Weekly