C. R. JAHN

FICTION
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8TH HOUSE

Darkside

The Outrider




I do not write much fiction, but what I do write is based largely on fact.  There's a lot I can never talk about, certainly not to a therapist, but mixing some of that into fiction helps me to purge that trauma and perhaps sharing what's written between the lines may help readers dealing with similar things.

There's a lot of secrets between the lines of my fiction, including tradecraft and advanced occult concepts.  The average reader is unlikely to take note of such revelations, and that's okay, just enjoy it for what it is.

The Outrider was my first worthwhile novel (I'd written another during my early 20s that was hot dogshit, but one of the three subplots was resurrected in the short story Outlaw).  Readers seemed to love it.  I'd had those concepts in my head for years and it made an amazing immersive novel like stumbling through a fever dream.

Darkside went hard... perhaps a bit too hard.  It was a fast paced, in your face, nonstop trauma dump.  All the main characters were based upon people I knew (including my two extraordinary exes, and yes, I made them good guys because I love and respect them), and the plot was based upon an actual cold case from the 1990s.  It's certainly not for everyone, so be warned.

8TH HOUSE  is totally unlike anything I've ever written.  The concept came to me in a flash, then I obsessively typed nonstop all night, every night, for a week letting it write itself.  I have no idea where that story came from but those words do not seem to be mine at all.  That was spooky.  And it's rather compressed too, a hundred page novella.  It is a love story.  I do not write love stories.  And it gets incredibly dark.

Novels are hard.  They take a lot out of me, like smearing a piece of my soul across a canvas.  You may not like what you read, but I can assure you none of it is intended to shock or titillate.  It serves to reveal what is under those rocks other authors tiptoe gingerly around.  I have seen things no-one should ever see, and the work my Tribe does should not be performed in ignorance.  I will tell you the Truth about why we do what we do.

Demons are real.  Sometimes they wear humans like skinsuits.  This is what they do and why.

We're looking under those rocks with a flashlight and collecting specimens.

You need to know what they know to have any hope of fighting them.

​They are not like us at all.

My primary literary influence is, of course, Andrew Vachss.  Other influences include Jack Ketchum, Boston Teran, and Thomas Ligotti, all of whom see the world through a very similar lens to my own.  I highly recommend their work as well.
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