by John Everson
First published 2013
A lonely necrophile discovers that even the dead can break your heart when his advances meet with cold rejection. His desperate attempts at romance with unresponsive corpses lead to increasingly absurd failures. Meanwhile, Little Timmy endures a string of terrible accidents and cruel twists of fate, each more ridiculous than the last. The boy becomes a magnet for misery through no fault of his own. A broken-down clown learns that show business demands payment in blood, broken bones, and damaged organs before success arrives. He suffers through beatings and injuries while chasing his dreams of making people laugh. These characters stumble through their ordeals in stories that find comedy in pain and laughter in suffering. Everson turns agony into entertainment across tales written over several years, creating a collection where torture becomes a punchline and misfortune delivers the humor.
Genres: horror, thriller, comedy
Vibes: absurdist, dark, thought-provoking
Tropes: absurdist, dark-humor
194 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: gore, graphic-violence