Dead Clown Barbecue

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 surprise 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

Contents:

• Introduction
• Pett Semmuteary
• Comeuppance
• The Apocalypse Ain't So Bad
• The Bell... FROM HELL!!!   
• Work/Life Balance
• Stop Stabbing Me
• Eight-Legged Vengeance
• The Drop
• Here's What Happened...
• Pregnancy Test
• Mr. Twitcher's Miracle Baby-Chopping Machine
• The Carver
• Push the Button
• My Knife Collection
• Drain Bamage
• Gramma's Corpse
• Burden
• Rough Draft
• Fangboy and the Troll
• Dead in the Water
• Immunity
• The Big Bite
• Specimen 313
• We Believe
• Poor Career Choice
• True Hero
• Chomp (A Cautionary Tale)
• The Severed Nose
• Dummy
• Story Notes