"In Adam McOmber's lucid dream of a novel, the beloved disciple follows the risen Yeshua on a voyage across the sea to the eternal city. Within the streets of Rome, they will come to the door of a mysterious structure known as the Gray Palace, within whose walls wait horrors and revelations. A contemporary descendant of such works as Par Lagerkvist's Barabbas and Nikos Kazantzakis's Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus and John looks at the greatest story ever told through fresh, kaleidoscopic lenses and discovers marvels." - John Langan, author of Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
"McOmber reimagines the resurrection of Jesus as an eerie, dreamlike zombie story in this chilling work.... McOmber excels at crafting chilling revelations that are genuinely surprising even within this strange, hypnotic world. Fans of weird fiction will enjoy this uncanny, mystical tale." - Publishers Weekly
"Terror and religion collide in McOmber's atmospheric, thought-provoking, and unapologetically queer exploration of devotion in a retelling of the resurrection as a horror allegory....Beautifully honoring the message of the New Testament while actively challenging its application, this is a tale of love, belief, and hope amid darkness, but it is also undeniably a horror tale, full of strange creatures and unearthly phenomena." - Becky Spratford for Booklist
"Beautifully written, heretical, and profoundly humane, this is a book about destabilizing one's entire sense of reality and revealing the unreal lurking within." - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
"Adam McOmber's Jesus and John is an unsettling and sumptuously written reimagining of the gospels that blends religious and sensual ecstasy in a haunting and incantatory brew. Riveting and unmissable."
- Robert Levy, author of The Glittering World and Anaïs Nin at the Grand Guignol
