This horror short story collection weekend has no theme. In fact I don’t even know what book I’m going to feature tomorrow.
For today, however, I wanted to promote Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand. Jeff is one of three authors that together are saving my reputation.
I have a co-worker who is also one of my more challenging readers’ advisory clients because she loves humor but she wants it with a bit of horror and a lot of gore. Yes, it has been a surprising revelation to find another librarian where I work who loves buckets of blood and gore.
Jeff strikes a wonderful balance between humor and gore with a bit of horror thrown in. I’ve given her The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff with James A. Moore and Dweller which she enjoyed. Charlie Huston’s Joe Pitt Casebook series and A. Lee Martinez’s Gil’s All Fright Diner and Monster have also gone over very well. Next up will be Revenant Road by Michael Boatman and Benjamin’s Parasite by Jeff Strand again.
So, does anyone have a suggestion what I could give her next?
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Gleefully Macabre TalesAuthor: Strand, Jeff |
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Gleefully Macabre TalesAuthor: Strand, Jeff |
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Nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Collection Cemetery Dance magazine says that “No author working today comes close to Jeff Strand’s perfect mixture of comedy and terror.” Gleefully Macabre Tales compiles 32 of his most twisted blends of cringe-worthy horror and ghoulish humor, with a couple of serious pieces thrown in just to mess with you. This collection includes tales from his three chapbooks (Two Twisted Nuts, Socially Awkward Moments With An Aspiring Lunatic, and Funny Stories of Scary Sex) and numerous other stories both popular and obscure, including “Really, Really Ferocious” (the one with the wiener dog), “High Stakes” (the one with the slot machine), “Roasting Weenies by Hellfire” (the one with Satan), “The Bad Candy House” (the one with a very unpleasant old man at Halloween) and “The Socket” (the one with the eyeball socket). It also includes two of his entries in the World Horror Convention gross-out contest. But you don’t want to read them. So if you’re looking to laugh, gasp, gag, or do all three at the same time, making sort of a weird sound that hurts your lungs and elicits odd glances from nearby pedestrians, don’t miss Gleefully Macabre Tales! Partial Table of Contents:
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January 2008 (Hardcover — Delirium Books)
January 2008 (Hardcover — Delirium Books)GOS Multimedia created the trailer for Gleefully Macabre Tales.
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