Alex S. Johnson

Alex S. Johnson
Connection to the Mythos	Author
Genre	Horror

🐙 Alex S. Johnson is an author, poet and editor who has produced a handful of works inspired by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. These have appeared in collections such as James Ward Kirk Publishing's 2015 anthology Lovecraft after Dark and Gavin Chappell's quarterly zine Lovecraftiana .

In 1987, Alex S. Johnson wrote the novel The Surreal Beauty Cafe (unpublished). In 2005, Alex S. Johnson published the novel Jason X: Death Moon (New Line Cinema/Black Flame Books) in collaboration with Hugo Award winning author Pat Cadigan,. In 2012, Alex S. Johnson published a dark fiction and poetry collection, The Death Jazz. 2023, Alex S. Johnson publsihed The Fall of the House of Kaimera and Other Stories, a chapbook. In 2025, Alex S. Johnsoni publshed Just One Fix: A Literary Salute to William S. Burroughs containng work by L.L. Soares, John Palisano, David J. Haskins, Alea Celeste Williams, Sandy DeLuca, Ellyn Maybe, Poppy Z. Brite, Rhys Hughes, Caitlin R, Kiernan, Greg F. Gifune, Matthew Brockmeyer, Jeffrey Thomas, Sunni Ellis, Graham Masterton, Maxim Jakubowski, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Zoltan Komor, Joe Kidd, John Shirley, Michael H, Hanson, Yongbo Ma, William Taylor, Jr, William S, Burroughs, Juliet Cook, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Til Kumari Sharma, Garrett Cook and Catfish McDaris,

Selected Works

Short Fiction

• "At the Gates" (2001)
• "How Many Miles to Asteroth" (2001)
• "Vampussy" (2015)
• "Faster, Vampussy … Kill, Kill!" (2015)
• "All Ghoul and His Rhythm Boys" (2025)
• "Pen and Incubus" (1998)
• "Hollywood Black" (2005)
• "Bring Me the Head of F.W. Murnau" (2017)
• "The Vivids" (2017)
• "Reynaldo, The World's Smallest Circus Bear' (2016)
• "Deatherz" (2014)
• "Today, She is French (2014)
• "Horror is a Melon On Stilts" (2014)
• "Xeno Comes to Town" (2014)
• "Finding Your Unhappy Place" (2014)
• "Murder at the Bukkake Cone" (2014)
• "A Doll's House of Horrors" (2014)
• "Finding Your Unhappy Place" (2014)
• "Rumplecockskin" (2014)
• "Shmerdilop" (2014)
• "Mourning Becomes Bizarro" (2014)
• "Ugly Lovercaftian Baby Plague" (2014)
• "The Dairy Queen of the Future" (2014)
• "The Ultimate Rock Star" (2014)
• "The Sleep Chamber of Dr. Morphisto" (2014)
• "Trans Trio with Marshmallow Eyes" (2014)
• "The Ultimate Rock Star" (2014)
• "Brain Jewels" (2014)
• "The Museum of Loops" (2014)
• "Pulse Demon" (2014)
• "Bone City Blues" (2014)
• "Invisible Regiments" (2005)
• "Live Transmission" (2005)
• "Scarlet Automorphology" (2018)
• "The Shit Huffers" (2016)
• "Blows Against the Empire" (2016)
• "Wet Transfer" (2018)
• "The Doom Hippies" (2016)
• "Carniwhore" (2016)
• "The Drean Cult of Akkan-Li" (2016)
• "Deeper Down" (2016)
• "Black Metal Virgin" (2016)
• "Mean Girls Club" (2016)
• "Life Among the Cadaveristes" (2016)
• "The Double Room" (2016)
• "Legends of Cement" (2016)
• "The Pig in the House" (2016)
• "The Soft Detectives" (2016)
• "Reynaldo, the World's Smallest Circus Bear" (2016)
• "Futurail" (2016)
• "Last Orgy of the Gingerbread Men" (2016)
• "Death by Metafiction" (2016)
• "Five Schizoid Shorts" (2016)
• "Bizarraby" (2016)
• ""The Final, Final Girl" ((2016)
• "En Famille" (2025)
• "The Doom Hippies Versus Harvard" (2024)
• "Bring Me the Head of Hunter S. Thompson (2024)

Poetry

• "Erotinomicon" (2015)
• "Radar Glove" (2024)
• "From the Seat of Cold Eternities" (2024)

External Links

• Alex S. Johnson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Alex S. Johnson at Goodreads