Jeffrey Thomas - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Author of novels and short story collections in the genres of SF, horror, and what-the-hell-do-you-call-that?
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My Interests

Writing for publication, occasional illustration work, long walks (really!), traveling, anything involving coffee, etc. etc.

I'd like to meet:

People willing to give my books a try: My books include: BLUE WAR (science fiction/thriller novel) DEADSTOCK (science fiction/horror novel) PUNKTOWN (SF/horror short stories) LETTERS FROM HADES (horror/fantasy novel) VOICES FROM HADES (horror stories collection) DOOMSDAYS (horror stories collection) UGLY HEAVEN/BEAUTIFUL HELL (two novellas, by myself and Carlton Mellick III) A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE DREAM DEALERS (horror novel)EVERYBODY SCREAM! (SF/horror novel) UNHOLY DIMENSIONS (horror short stories) AAAIIIEEE!!! (horror short stories) BONELAND (SF/horror novel) THIRTEEN SPECIMENS (horror/bizarre short stories) HONEY IS SWEETER THAN BLOOD (erotic horror short stories) TERROR INCOGNITA (horror short stories) PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY (SF/horror short stories; co-written with brother Scott Thomas) PUNKTOWN: THIRD EYE (SF/horror short stories; anthology with myself as editor). Some foreign-language editions of the above. (BLUE WAR and DEADSTOCK can be found on actual bookshelves everywhere, but my other books can be ordered at such online shops as Amazon.com. Give them a try...I need to pay my utilities!)

Music:

Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello, Poe, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Natacha Atlas, Elvis Costello, Dead Can Dance, Elvis Costello, Lustmord, Elvis Costello, etc.

Movies:

Taxi Driver, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Alien/s, The Deer Hunter, Pulse (Japanese), Fight Club, Straw Dogs, Harakiri, The Wild Bunch, The Fly (remake),The Elephant Man, The Exorcist, Blade Runner, Run Lola Run, The Thing (remake), etc. etc.

Television:

Survivorman

Books:

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, House of Leaves, Red Dragon, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Dog Soldiers, Lolita, The Exorcist, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Godfather, Westermead, Perfume, The Cipher, The Tenant, City of Saints and Madmen, A Clockwork Orange, The Divinity Student, anything Lovecraft, those great books from school like 1984, The Martian Chronicles, Lord of the Flies, The Pearl, etc. etc.

Heroes:

My son

My Blog

BLUE WAR is here! Read the reviews!

My science fiction-thriller BLUE WAR, featuring DEADSTOCK's shape-shifting private eye Jeremy Stake, hit the stands last month...and the reviews have been great! Blue War works on every level, as a no...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:19:00 PST

DEADSTOCK download is LIVE!

As previously announced, publisher Solaris Books is offering my 2007 science fiction thriller DEADSTOCK as a FREE download, to promote the March 2008 release of my novel BLUE WAR, which feat...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:04:00 PST

Free Download of DEADSTOCK!!

I'll let the press release speak for itself: "In March 2008, Solaris will be releasing the much-anticipated new Punktown novel from Jeffrey Thomas. BLUE WAR is a science fiction thriller set on a colo...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:31:00 PST

VOICES FROM HADES

I have a new collection coming out from Dark Regions Press (who just put out my DOOMSDAYS collection),sometime in the first quarter of 2008, called VOICES FROM HADES. It collects all my short fiction ...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:04:00 PST

Nostradamus was right! DOOMSDAYS is here!

You were forewarned, friend, and now&DOOMSDAYS has arrived! My short story collection from Dark Regions Press (http://www.darkregions.com/); 22 short stories, mostly reprints (though often hard to tra...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:11:00 PST

Midnight in New England

Hot on the heels of his new horror collection OVER THE DARKENING FIELDS, my brother Scott Thomas has another collection out now MIDNIGHT IN NEW ENGLAND, from Down East Books, publishers of the highl...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:46:00 PST

Props for Punktown

I thought I'd point out a cool article about DEADSTOCK and Punktown that Jeff VanderMeer wrote for Amazon.com's blog (he's their official SF/fantasy blogger). The article takes a fun angle about the o...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:25:00 PST

Blue War / Beautiful Hell

Some very exciting news two new books to announce. Here's the first: I'm proud to be able to announce my novel BLUE WAR, to be published by Solaris Books in 2008. BLUE WAR follows the protagonist o...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:08:00 PST

Punktowner Podcast

Recently Gail Martin, author of the Solaris novel THE SUMMONER, conducted an audio conversation with me to feature on her website (www.chroniclesofthenecromancer.com) along with another she did recent...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:01:00 PST

DEADSTOCK at Sci Fi.com and SFX

There's been a great new review of DEADSTOCK here, at the web site for the Sci Fi Channel: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/sfw15260.html "Forget it, Stake -- it's Punktown" indeed! (These words had occ...
Posted by Jeffrey Thomas on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:32:00 PST