"A Bad Day For Voodoo", by the always entertaining Jeff Strand, is actually, literally, laugh-out-loud funny! It's like one of those bad-things-happen-to-poor-jackasses movies where more and more hilarious, ridiculous things keep happening to him-except there's no Ben Stiller(yay!), and dark, co...
I really needed a book like this. Something fun, enjoyable and entertaining. What I enjoyed the most was the reality of the book. Henry didn’t want to go to camp, he knew from watching the video what he was walking into but he went because his parents made him. I have to give props to the author ...
Fire ants. Even when they're normal sized, they're horrible, wretched insects whose sting causes burning pain. But these ants are far from normal. And the city of Tampa, Florida has become infested with the oversized creatures.From the demented author of GRAVEROBBERS WANTED (NO EXPERIENCE NECESSA...
Writing horror-comedy is tough...Writing disturbing, gruesome horror-comedy is much, much tougher…Writing disturbing, gruesome horror-comedy while maintaining a light-hearted touch on the narrative is bordering on metaphysically impossible...Jeff Strand, for the most part, pulls it off. Now, th...
Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadn't seen in years … CHILDREN They met first in boarding school at age twelve. Alex Fletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal. It was not an i...
From the author of How to Rescue a Dead Princess comes Out of Whack, an outrageous comedy about friendship, love, following your dreams, and other really scary stuff. Seth Trexler has two goals in life: to find success with his off-the-wall sketch comedy troupe, and to win the girl of his dreams....
From the creative genius who would have brought you Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter, and a less-boring Moby Dick (if he'd been born on time) comes this outrageous comic fantasy. It's a tale filled with so much adventure, so much excitement, so much vocabulary, that all who read it will suffer a fit of...
Nathan thought that it must be a wonderful thing to have so many coins to spare, and couldn’t wait to send lots of them to Penny and Mary. They’d be so happy!A black coach waited outside. It had two horses to pull it, and in the driver’s seat sat a man with flesh so tight that he almost looked li...
"Do they have any weapons?" he asked Goblin."The guy in the truck has a gun," Goblin said. "But I can explain--""And you will. Surprised it was me and not a new set of victims, were you? I heard some very interesting things over your walkie-talkie chatter. Medusa, retrieve the gun."The woman in r...
George applied the brake and leaned forward. "Where?" "There!" "The cat?" "Is that a cat?" "It's sure as hell not a werewolf." "It's a possum," said Michele. "They're everywhere." "I didn't see what it actually was," said Lou. "I just noticed movement." George muttered something rude. They'd been...
Hours?My eyes flew open and took in only darkness.Calm down! Forget being calm! I’m buried alive with a rotting dead guy! I began to scream.If you don’t control yourself, you’ll run out of oxygen! Do I even WANT to stay alive down here? The stench was so awful that I could barely breathe. I pushe...
He wasn't used to that. He suspected that it had something to do with the fact that his last public speaking engagement had ended with a bullet puncturing his chest. He was in the same building where they'd held the press conference, although now it had been redecorated into a fairly cozy set whe...
In my defense, I’d started to suspect foul play after the second.“Quite a few disappearances in this city recently,” I said to Greg, as we sat at the table, eating the microwaved dinners that I’d over-microwaved.“What are you trying to say?” asked Greg.“Just making conversation.”“If you’re accusi...
So he went upstairs, took off his left shoe, decided that his right shoe was fine where it was, and flopped down on his bed. Fourteen and three-quarters of a second later, he was asleep. A zombie with a tire iron lodged in its skull stood next to his bed, staring at him. B...
@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } October 29th, 2010 Saturday Rand Armstrong had picked up the tracks in the fresh dusting of snow two miles east of the edge of his property on Rocky Mountain National Forest land. There had been no mistaking them: three-lobed heel pads;...
At least that's the way I understand it. While Scoopy and I hadn't invested any money into our gum business yet, we did decide to give away our first twenty-five pieces as free samples. Okay, our first eighteen pieces, since a certain member of our partnership couldn't keep from chomping down on ...
It had been a delicious meal for sure (he didn't get to eat humans very often, so it was always a special treat), but he felt somehow unsatisfied. Not hungry, necessarily, just sort of... unfulfilled. He shifted in his dirt a bit. Almost watering time. Maybe that was the problem---his soil was to...