Dead Clown Barbecue
Dead Clown Barbecue book cover

Dead Clown Barbecue

Paperback – March 27, 2013

Price
$24.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
Dark Regions Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1937128456
Dimensions
6 x 0.66 x 9 inches
Weight
1 pounds

Description

"Jeff Strand is a funny, deeply disturbed individual." --Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season and The Girl Next Door Jeff Strand is the four-time Bram Stoker Award nominated (and four-time Bram Stoker Award non-winning) author of such novels as Pressure, Dweller, Wolf Hunt, A Bad Day For Voodoo, Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), Benjamin's Parasite, The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Fangboy, and a bunch of others. He lives in Florida, where all of the whackos reside, although he was insane before he moved there.

Features & Highlights

  • From the author of Pressure, Dweller, and Wolf Hunt comes a new 90,000-word short story collection featuring twenty-nine stories and original cover artwork by Alex McVey. The stories within this collection range from hilarious to downright disturbing, proving that Jeff Strand is still a master of comedic horror. Seven of the stories ("Pett Semmuteary" "Dummy" "True Hero" "Fangboy and the Troll" "Stop Stabbing Me" "Pregnancy Test" and "Push the Button”) have never been published and were written just for this book. Contains interior illustrations by artist Alex McVey. A man who finds a severed nose on a plate on his dining room table. A bell that can summon Satan (maybe). Casual Fridays at work that get out of control. A cheery outlook on the post-apocalyptic landscape. The final thoughts of a doomed skydiver. A girl punished by having to share a bed with her grandmother’s corpse. Revenge via baking a tarantula into a cake. A romance between two carnivorous genetically enhanced plants. And the lost tale of Fangboy. These are only a few of the demented stories in DEAD CLOWN BARBECUE, a collection of twenty-nine gleefully macabre tales, seven of which were written just for this collection. There’s even a brand new one about a ventriloquist dummy. Those things creep you out, right? You’ll laugh. You’ll scream. Okay...you probably won’t actually scream, unless you already had issues before you started reading, but you might cringe and get a little spooked. “No author working today comes close to Jeff Strand’s perfect mixture of comedy and terror.”
  • - Cemetery Dance

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Shock, gore, horror and humor, what more can you ask for? Wild imagination? That's there too! AAAAAAAAA++++++

This book of short stories is Strand at his best! Where he comes up with his wild ideas I will never know, and not sure i want to know...lol but, in my opinion, no one on the planet can mix crazy, gory, insane stories that also make you laugh out loud like he does. If you are already a fan, this is a MUST READ, if you are new to Strand's work, this is a MUST READ! I read the book in one sitting, just when I thought he couldn't top one of the stories, he continued to prove me wrong. I highly recommend this book, you will not be bored, EVER, or disappointed, but you will be ADDICTED to his work, so be prepared for that!
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Strand's collection's are "must-reads"!!

I can almost imagine the look on the face of anyone NOT familiar with the kind of horror/comedy mix that Jeff Strand writes, reading these stories for the first time! This collection was priceless--a true Laugh-out-loud riot. I enjoyed his collection GLEEFULLY MACABRE TALES, but the stories here upped the ante! I had so many "favorites", that I don't know where to start. Strand's humor blended horror is so unique, that I honestly can't think of anything to compare these tales to. Included in this collection is the novella "The Severed Nose"--which alone is worth the purchase price! Anyone with a nicely "warped" sense of humor will want to add this book to their favorites' collection immediately! Strand's best collection to date!

Highly recommended!
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Fun from front to back

Jeff Strand makes everything entertaining. Everything. Things that shouldn't be funny suddenly are hysterical. Don't stop with the last story, his authors' notes are wonderful to read. I am glad he included them at the very end of the book which makes them completely up to you if you want to know extra stuff. He is FUNNY. I'm already looking forward to his forthcoming collect (number 4!). Once I pick up a book by Jeff Strand, I make time to keep reading.
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I really wanted to like this, but I just couldn't

I really wanted to like this, but I just couldn't. Stories could be written by a talented 8th grader. I'm planning on returning.