“When Hemingway meets Lovecraft, humanity faces its greatest the void.” If you loved the runaway success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—now an international bestseller and hit Hollywood film—you’ll be captivated by The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu. This bold reimagining of Hemingway’s iconic novel collides with the boundless terror of H.P. Lovecraft, crafting an unforgettable journey into the heart of cosmic horror. In the fractured aftermath of war, Jack Schitt, Ro’brt Ctholh’en, Brett Ashley, and Creepy Bill wander the disillusioned landscapes of Europe, searching for love, purpose, and meaning. But beneath their fragile lives stirs a mind-shattering force—an ancient terror determined to resurrect elder gods and unravel reality itself. As the veil thins between human frailty and eldritch dread, the Lost Generation must face its ultimate defy the incomprehensible… or descend into madness. Brought to life by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winner Ernest Hemingway—author of The Old Man and the Sea—and Jorah Kai, the modern minstrel of the macabre celebrated for the darkly psychedelic Amos the Amazing, this literary horror odyssey charts a path through existential longing, cosmic terror, and the bittersweet ache of identity and love. A cult classic in the making, The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu resurrects a cherished novel into a realm of unimaginable nightmares. At once haunting, hilarious, and hypnotic, it’s a genre-defying tale for our time. Perfect for fans of literary experiments, cosmic horror, and books that linger—like a dream you can’t shake. Praise for The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu: “A cosmic cocktail of Hemingway and Lovecraft—graceful, stylish, and gloriously strange. A wild ride.” —Robert Rivenbark, award-winning author of The Cloud “Honey, this book’s as wild as a fox in a henhouse! A slow-simmering pot of cosmic gumbo—rich, strange, and full of surprises. Just don’t read it before bed, bless your heart.” —Dragonfly Reads “If you told me one of the most bizarrely satisfying books I’d read this year would be a mash-up of Ernest Hemingway and Lovecraftian horror, I’d have raised an eyebrow and asked what you were drinking. And yet here we are—The Sun Also Rises on Cthulhu is real, and it’s absolutely something else. A fever dream with a beating heart; a love letter to lost souls wrapped in cosmic dread.” —Ava, Coffee Book Couch “A haunting, thought-provoking experience that seamlessly blends literary depth with psychological terror—and lingers long after the final page.” —Donna Sundblad, author of Dragonborn and The Inheritance (Not technically a blurb, but surprisingly on brand): “I send my deep apologies, but am unable to provide a blurb at this time.” —Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author
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Someone once told Jorah Kai to write what he knew, but since he was 12 and knew very little, the avid reader set off on a lifelong journey to master a variety of esoteric subjects. He’s been a lifelong student, martial artist, musician, English teacher, writer, newspaper columnist, editor, web designer, dance music producer and touring DJ, black rock city existential detective and philosopher, fire-breathing gypsy circus performer, standup comedian, and family man; which offered many profound insights into the human condition before uprooting his life and moving to a city of 34 million people halfway across the planet. Jorah Kai has been an English teacher in Chongqing, China, since 2014 and editor for iChongqing, an English news desk for the 34 million-person solarpunk metropolis, since 2018. He was the first Canadian journalist to report on the early Chinese outbreak and lockdown in 2020 and wrote a syndicated diary column for Chinese and Canadian (CTV News) audiences which was expanded and published in 2020 as his first novel, the epistolary tale ‘The Invisible War’ (Kai’s Diary) by Chinese New World Press in English and Chinese, which became an Amazon Bestseller for China Books and then Canadian press Royal Collins in English for a second edition. Both the column and book were celebrated as providing critical health information and guidance during an emergency. It was designated by the foreign affairs office as one of the top 10 foreign language books and 25 overall notable books published in China in 2020. On October 31, 2022, Kai released his second book, a solarpunk fantasy novel he describes as somewhere between 'Chinese Harry Potter' and 'an especially psychedelic Alice in Wonderland.' He released it with More Publishing, a new imprint he's contributing to help English writers in China publish their stories, and will release the Chinese version of the book to the Chinese and global market in 2023 with a large publisher and is hoping it will become a commercial success, inspiring people young and old around the world to be a little more hopeful and a lot more proactive about how we treat our beautiful world. Kai enjoys conversing in foreign languages because it’s more mysterious, and he enjoys playing guitar and eating pizza as much as he hopes you love his books. He lives at the confluence of two mighty rivers, the Yangtze and the Jialing, with a large and loving family for many years as a human being and then forever after as the most immortal of all supernatural beasts, a writer.
Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I, journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature. Economical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collections of short stories, and three nonfiction works. People consider many of these classics. After high school, Hemingway reported for a few months for the Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian front to enlist. In 1918, someone seriously wounded him, who returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms . In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved, and he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the expatriate community of the "lost generation" of 1920s. After his divorce of 1927 from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. At the Spanish civil war, he acted as a journalist; afterward, they divorced, and he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls . Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s. Martha Gellhorn served as third wife of Hemingway in 1940. When he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II, they separated; he presently witnessed at the Normandy landings and liberation of Paris. Shortly after 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where two plane crashes almost killed him and left him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. Nevertheless, in 1959, he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
