News — John Hornor Jacobs

I first read John Hornor Jacobs after a friend suggested him to me. I instantly became a huge fan of his and reading A Lush and Seething Hell made me an even bigger fan. The book is composed of two stories, one of which I like a bit more than the other, but I’ll get to that. This book is described as cosmic horror and that is spot on. This book is unsettling and it sticks with the reader long after they’ve finished it. The first story is “The Sea...

World War II veteran Bull Ingram is a huge man. That is, after all, why they call him Bull. He is hired by a Memphis radio station owner to find the musician Ramblin’ John Hastur. The music Hastur makes is claimed to have made perfectly sane men go mad and to have made dead men rise.

Bull follows Hastur’s trail into the backwoods of Arkansas and into the unknown. He hears rumors that the Hastur has sold his soul to the Devil. He sees dead men live and feels the effects Hastur’s music has on people...

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