Extinction Journals

6 best books like Extinction Journals (Jeremy Robert Johnson): The Omen, The Raw Shark Texts, Last Days, A Collapse of Horses, Dora: A Headcase, Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel)

The Omen

Author	David Seltzer
ISBN	0451219422

”...And then shall arise a contemptible one whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come by counterfeit means and obtain the Kingdom of flatteries. Armies shall be swept away before him and broken...and he shall act deceitfully and he shall become strong with a small people. Without warning...

The Raw Shark Texts

Author	Steven Hall
ISBN	1841959111

Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of acute memory loss that is a symptom of his severe dissociative disorder. Eric's been in Dr. Randle's care for two years...

Last Days

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	0980226007

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult. The story follows Kline, a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. As Kline becomes more deeply involved...

A Collapse of Horses

Author	Brian Evenson
ISBN	1566894131

5 word review (not counting these words here, hidden in the parenthesis, but these stories were so weird and disturbing and burrowing, yes, burrowing, inside, inside you.)

Loved it. And blurbed it.

Here's my blurb!

“Brian Evenson's collection A Collapse of Horses is...

Dora: A Headcase

Author	Lidia Yuknavitch
ISBN	0983477574

Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse...

Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief (A Graphic Novel)

Author	Faye Perozich
ISBN	0970398107

Somewhat scary and creepy. If only I didn't have the mental image of Lestat - which Anne Rice did well - as homosexual, this might actually have had a spot in my favorites shelf.

Lestat's experience as a human again cracked me up a bit. He kept whining on and on about how the human body he inhabited...