# The Loop - Paperback

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by **Jeremy Robert Johnson** (Author)

**_Dazed and Confused_ meets _28 Days Later_ in this "wickedly entertaining," (_Kirkus Reviews_) "volcano of a book" (Nathan Ballingrud, author of _Wounds_) as a lonely young woman teams up with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town overcome by a science experiment gone wrong.**

**A Best Book of the Month for _Den of Geek_, _Omnivoracious_, _Mystery & Suspense_, and _Tor_.**

**A _Goodreads_' Readers Choice Nominee for Best Horror, and one of the Best Books of the Year for _The Lineup_, _Booked_, and _Unsettling Reads_.**

Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of central Oregon. When a terrifying outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence.

_The Loop_ is a "wild and wonderfully scary novel" (Richard Chizmar, author of _Gwendy's Magic Feather_) that offers a "hilarious and horrifying" (Brian Keene, author of _The Rising_) look at what one team of misfits can accomplish as they fight to live through the night.

"\[A\] harrowing thrill ride of the first order and an uncompromising page-turner, easily securing its spot as one of the best novels of 2020." --_Rue Morgue_ (featured "Dante's Pick" Review)

"Like the best of Crichton or Bentley, it is a great beach read, but it is infused with the neon blood of a brave new writer... \[A\] kind of literary roller coaster. It will take you to thrilling highs and terrifying lows..." --_Los Angeles Review of Books_

"_The Loop_ is the gore-soaked, anxiety-inducing, diabolically funny Richard Linklater/David Cronenberg mashup you never knew you wanted but can't--or at least shouldn't--live without." --_The Big Thrill_

"Unputdownable...Fans of _The Twilight Zone_, _The X-Files_, and _Stranger Things_ will be especially thrilled." --_Publishers Weekly_ (starred review)

"A satisfyingly dark satire of, well, everything...\[a\] heart-pounding and deeply unsettling tale." --_Booklist_

"_The Loop_ is a remarkably propulsive novel, cinematic in the best way, with perfectly tuned tension and excellent character choices...a headlong, straightforward pleasure." --_Locus_

"_The Loop_ is the Cronenberg film we never got." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of _North American Lake Monsters_ and _Wounds_

### Author Biography

Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of the critically acclaimed collection _Entropy in Bloom_ as well as the breakthrough cult novel _Skullcrack City_. His fiction has been praised by _The Washington Post_ and _Publishers Weekly_, authors such as David Wong, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jack Ketchum, and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. In 2008, he worked with The Mars Volta to tell the story behind their Grammy Award-winning album, _The Bedlam in Goliath_. In 2010 he spoke about weirdness and metaphor as a survival tool at the Fractal 10 conference in Medellin, Colombia. In 2017, his short story "When Susurrus Stirs" was adapted for film and won numerous awards including the Final Frame Grand Prize and Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Jeremy is intermittently social over at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @JRL\_Is\_Probable.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 0.84 x 8.99 x 6.13 IN

**Publication Date:** August 10, 2021

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Thrillers

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