A proud and beloved representative of the darkly teeming milieu of ‘bizarro’ fiction, Jeremy Robert Johnson is attracting acclaim for his debut novel, Skullcrack City – a conspiracy thriller whose grotesque dystopian vision would have made Hieronymous Bosch proud, but whose pulp roots and cyberpunk beats lend it a brisk and ice-cool clip. He speaks
Hi, and welcome to the twentieth Schlock podcast. Twenty! Crazy, right? Wait, what do you mean, Schlock is back at making podcasts? I know as much about this change in podcast situation as you do, dear reader-slash-listener. It’s only now I even got to know about it. The Hive Mind just came to me and asked, nay,
Monsters have always been with us, and a cursory glance at both pop culture and daily news feeds, in whichever shape they may appear, suggests that in some form or other, monsters will remain with us always. So it is with Schlock Magazine’s latest issue. We hope you deem this month’s selection a tasteful and
It would be tempting to assume that Poe gave me the idea, but it’s quite the other way around. Still, I like an allusion as much as the next, even if my method is less barbaric. We each have our preferences. Kennedy was my friend; I carefully selected him when I first heard about his
Words: Steve De France Illustration: Adrian Theuma Click for full size. It’s worth it! Full text below. THE MAN IN THE MOON I am watching the moon when I bump into a man with just a mouth in the middle of his face. This mouth—grins—and asks for a light. Is this some kind of a
by Kris Green It is dangerous for us to assume that we know everything, but recently I have come to discover that it is more dangerous to assume that we know anything at all; about ourselves, about each other, about the world around us. Humankind lives in the shadows. We think that with this great
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: “What motivates my writing? I can’t not write. It’s a basic form Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: “What motivates my writing? I can’t not write. It’s a basic form of sustenance, my own worldly interface” Ahead of Schlock’s ‘Monster March’ we speak to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Professor of English and Director of the
I’m the cleaner, me, luv. What I’m about to tell you’s things I know for certain. Everyone in these parts’s got their own story about Camilla. I’ll tell you things I know for certain. But if you need to find out more you go talk to the Madam’s niece, luv. She was a friend of
Julie, Deirdre, Olivia and Prince had barely been at the rental house in the mountains for ten minutes before they accepted the fact that they were all going to die there. Anna’s car keys on the kitchen counter, covered in a visible layer of dust, had been the first clue, and the discovery of Anna
In further proof of our living in interesting times, (allegedly) North Korean hackers have stopped Sony from releasing a movie, specifically Seth Rogen and James Franco’s The Interview. Is this a thing that actually happened – as in the hackers threatening the studio – or merely the most elaborate marketing campaign gimmick in history? Meanwhile hacker-proof