Vortex Era

by Jeremy Thompson

After much revision, Jeremy Thompson's long-unpublished first novel has finally seen the light of day. Now, you are discordially invited to enter the:

VORTEX ERA

San Clemente State’s fall semester begins as semesters generally do, with a flurry of classes, drunken antics, and hook-ups. But oddness soon arrives.

A student disappears. Her professor's past life begins visiting him. On strangers and acquaintances, scaled and crystalline skin can be glimpsed beneath their flesh costuming.

A popular fraternity conceals a dark secret: a sporadically-manifesting, flesh-warping vortex operating behind their property, which feeds off of extreme emotions to generate a galaxy-spanning passageway.

The machinations of a mythical civilization are at work, designed to facilitate the return of an eons-lost continent, at the expense of all others. Will SCSU's current semester be its last?

301 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2024

About the author

Jeremy Thompson is the indie horror fictionist whose mind and fingers united to birth The Phantom Cabinet, Let's Destroy Investutech, Victor Dickens and the Silent Minority, The Land of Broken Sky, Outréverse, and Vortex Era. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 2 and 4, Into the Darkness Volume 1, DarkFuse, Journal of Experimental Fiction, This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With, and Brewtality, and been collected in Sweet Chuckling Morbidity, A Carcass of Genre, and Toby Chalmers Commits “Career” Suicide: The Complete Saga. A San Diego State University graduate, Jeremy resides in Oceanside, California.