Gleefully Macabre Tales

“The most important thing to know about Jeff Strand’s work is that just because it’s funny doesn’t mean it isn’t scary and disturbing. It does those things better than most horror fiction around. The laughs just make it more palatable and much more enjoyable. Most thriller writers use humor as a device to break tension so they can build it back up again. Strand uses humor more subversively. He disarms readers by making them laugh and let their guard down, then hits them in the gut with something really, really nasty so their chuckle of amusement becomes a gasp of horror. His careful structuring makes humor and horror work together and complement each other.” – Cemetery Dance

Ready to find an efficient way to unload the truck filled with dead babies? In the mood to giggle at the sight of your own blood? Well, ladies and gentlemen, my ghoulishly funny short story collection, Gleefully Macabre Tales, is now available!

Tales include...

“Disposal” (new to the paperback edition – previously published as a stand-alone hardcover)

“Really, Really Ferocious” (the infamous “wiener dog” story)

“Socially Awkward Moments With An Aspiring Lunatic” (from the long-sold-out chapbook)

“Them Old West Mutations” (just a good old-fashioned “giant man-eating cockroaches in the Old West” yarn)

“One of Them” (a young boy visits a most unpleasant carnival freak show indeed...)

“Roasting Weenies by Hellfire” (sort of like Home Alone, but with lots of splatter, a zombie, and the devil)

A grisly and disturbing version of “The Three Little Pigs” “Mr. Sensitive” (a leg-crossing, cringe-inducing cautionary tale)“BrainBugs” (they’re in there... squirming around...)

“Special Features” (it may be the last DVD commentary track you ever listen to)

“Werewolf Porno” and “Sex Potion #147″ (from the sold-out chapbook Funny Stories of Scary Sex)

Gracious! There’s even more...

A couple of serious tales: “Glimpses” and “Abbey’s Shriek”

A double feature of holiday silliness: “Howard, the Tenth Reindeer” and “Howard Rises Again”

A transcript of my 2006 and 2007 World Horror Convention Gross-Out Contest entries (complete with embarrassed author commentary)

And there’s even more amusing depravity! “High Stakes.” “Wasting Grandpa.” “A Bite for a Bite.” “Bad Coffee.” “An Admittedly Pointless But Mercifully Brief Story With Aliens In It.” “Munchies.” “I Hold the Stick.” “Scarecrow’s Discovery.” “Cap’n Hank’s Five Alarm Nuclear Lava Wings.” “The Bad Candy House.” And yes, even more! (Six more, actually.)

Not to mention a few pages of story notes at the back of the book, for those of you who are into that sort of thing.

Previously published as a 300-copy hardcover limited edition by Delirium Books.