John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow are renegade writers and genre rebels, stirring up trouble at the deep end of the horror pool with a wild combination of shocks, laughs, culture-clash ferocity, alarming intelligence, naked emotion, and a madly cinematic pace.
John Skipp is a bona fide New York Times bestselling horror icon: ’80s splatterpunk poster child turned unlikely elder statesman, with millions of copies sold all over the world (and in a dozen languages). His seminal works with Skipp & Spector—The Light at the End, The Cleanup, The Scream, Dead Lines, The Bridge, Animals, and the Book of the Dead anthologies—have exerted a profound influence on modern horror fiction.
Cody Goodfellow is a newcomer on the scene, who made his bones with the two-volume “Lovecraftian epic” Radiant Dawn and Ravenous Dusk. His unique, highly-literate blend of hardcore horror, speculative fiction, and techno-thriller became a small-press cult phenomenon, amongst his many fans was Skipp, who loudly proclaimed, “Unless I am utterly fucking crazy, Cody Goodfellow is one of the best virtually unknown horror writers on Earth.”
Jake’s Wake is the first of their novels together.
They both live in LA.