Jeremy Jenkins is angry. His job as a pharmacist is unrewarding. He argues with his girlfriend. He lives in America, where killing has been made legal and serial killers are hot celebrity athletes and have spawned Reap, a demented subculture with millions of fans. Beings from another dimension that only he can see are turning people into terrifying automatons and breeding machines and all he can do to stop them is kill. America has become a scary place for Jeremy Jenkins and it might just get scarier. Can Jeremy reconcile his visions of a dark future with the reality of a twisted present? Jeremy’s earth shattering two-fisted pulp destiny begins.
"Definitely a serious talent-" Mort Castle, Bram Stoker nominee, author of The Strangers
"There's no way to prepare, no way to protect yourself. Garrett Cook's work has an edge..and it's at your throat-" Robert Dunbar, Bram Stoker nominee, author of Martyrs and Monsters
"Action! Explosions! Hot broads! Garrett Cook is two fisted Bizarro pulp. I love his stories!"- Jeff Burk, author of Shatnerquake
"Garrett Cook and Jimmy Plush ain't fluff. Raw and uncut, dealin' out death to the offensive, they preach sledgehammer when they drop hardcore in hardboiled. -- Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. author of SIN & ashes
I was born in a haunted house in Wenham, Massachusetts in 1982, and was interested in the uncanny, the scary and the fantastic from a fairly young age. Godzilla movies, the dubbed videotapes from my grandfather's eccentric pal Bob's bootleg videostore and mythology books made me serious as a heart attack about storytelling. As soon as I knew what a writer was, I wanted to be one. Vampire hunter and mad scientist, my secondary aspirations didn't really come to fruition. If it weren't for the support of understanding teachers and family members in my struggles with bipolar disorder and my learning disability, neither would a lot of things. I began my first serious attempt at a novel at 16 and drowned in it for seven years. Someday maybe it will be readable.
I attended college until finances and politics got in the way, then left alongside my girlfriend of the time to live briefly in central PA. In Pennsylvania, I wrote a novel called Murderland. Two years later,Jeremy Needle from ENE picked up this book, told me to divide it up into three books and make it into a series of pulp novels. I did, and it's gotten a lot better and crazier since. I've found acceptance among the authors of Bizarro fiction, even winning the first annual Bizarro showdown and getting a five book contract from Eraserhead Press, under the watchful eye of Shatnerquake author and Deadite Press impresario Jeff Burk. My work has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Polluto, the very cool speculative poetry antho Anomalous Appetites, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Houdini Gutpunch and The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple). Murderland Part 1: H8, its sequel, Murderland 2:Life During Wartime,the enigmatic Archelon Ranch are all available here on Amazon and my fourth book, Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective from Eraserhead Press is now available.
I currently reside in Boston, where I am preparing for the release of my band Mayonnaise Jenkins and the Former Kings of the Delta Blues' first album. I also serve as the editor of the literary magazine Imperial Youth Review, which is available now.
