'John Skipp is still splatterpunk, knocking your teeth out to a hard and heavy beat. Push the button.” Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher Walk with him, trust his vision and his voice. “John Skipp has never, ever been afraid to walk in the dark: he knows that's where all light shines hardest. No fathom can resist his maestro dives.” Richard Christian Matheson, author of Dystopia In his virtuoso trove, Don’t Push the Button, John Skipp’s X-Acto gaze slays artifice, heals with true, golden heart. Open it!” Cody Goodfellow, author of Unamerica To see so unflinchingly into the dark corners of life and still give a shit is less a gift than a miracle, but Skipp wraps that gift in his own skin and he’s giving it to you.

Don’t Push the Button hits with the urgency of a ransom note and the hard-won wisdom of a prizefighter’s face. John Skipp has been working against that curve all his life, tearing down fusty literary conventions and bringing the raw realness with a wrecking ball. “As writers age, we refine our craft to compensate for a creeping disengagement with the world outside our heads.

There's a grace and honesty to these stories that moved me, and made me grateful that John Skipp will always choose to push those buttons.' Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Entropy in Bloom A wild, unpredictable portrait of a bright, burning mind, it showcases Skipp's radical range, dark-hearted humor, and enormous empathy. It wants to tear you apart to show you what's wonderful deep inside of all of us. 'DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON is a beautiful, bluesy, angry, affectionate howl of a book. Very highly recommended!' Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Ink and V-WARS Funny, scary, weird AF, and always surprising. 'DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON is John Skipp at his very finest. 'Skipp's writing is so good, so insightful, so honest, gross, trippy and what-the-fucky, it makes you feel the dearest of friends has suddenly opened their heart all the way up to you, and you alone.' Lucky McKee, writer/director of May, co-writer (with Jack Ketchum) of I Am Sam His best yet.” Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box

“Startlingly honest, refreshingly revealing, funny, freaky, upsetting, unsettling. Revealing both the best and worst of us, one laugh and scream at a time. In this intensely personal collection of short stories, screenplays, and essays, horror legend John Skipp walks you through the light and the dark with an unflinching eye. You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destruction is just one button-push away.

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