Bøger af Max Booth

1. Do not respond to bad reviews.2. If you must respond to bad reviews, please do not kidnap the reviewer.3. If you must kidnap the reviewer, do not kidnap him in a public area.4. If there are witnesses, do not also kidnap them.5. If you also kidnap the witnesses, consider quitting crystal meth.6. If you find yourself surrounded by hostages, purchase extra duct tape.7. Do not let the hostages take their own hostages.8. Invest in better coffee.9. Don't forget: dildo crucifixes have more than one use.10. And, most importantly: do not engage the severed heads in conversation.

When Maddox Kane is released from prison, he has no idea what the world has become. His ex-wife's hooked up with a heroin addict, his daughter's busy burying dead bodies behind drugstores, and his brother's being held prisoner by an abusive prostitute. Plus, apparently, there's a new drug out on the street called Purple, and it's going to destroy the world. Darkly comedic and absurdly tragic, Toxicity is a tale of horrible things happening to horrible people.

David Lynch meets Dark City in this nightmarish vision of post-industrial America. Citizens roam the streets, aimless, searching for a new glimmer of hope in a city that's abandoned them, shadowed by a towering casino operated by a tyrannical madman known only as Indigo. Starvation and lack of shelter are only two of the issues facing this city. There's also the secret underground organ harvesting operation, plucking away citizens at random-plus the bizarre cult eager to offer sacrifices to a blood-thirsty god.And waking up in the middle of this dystopian city, next to two corpses, is our Narrator: a man whose memory has been wiped clean. He doesn't remember his name. He doesn't remember anything. He certainly can't explain his strange telekinetic abilities, either. But, one way or the other, he's going to find out. What follows is an exploration into the rot of Downtown America, where our Narrator will encounter wise-cracking gangsters, lost wanderers, soulless surgeons, and brain spiders. The Mind is a Razorblade is a psychological thriller contaminated with the stench of noir, science fiction, and horror, constructing a hardboiled hellscape of mystery.

The second issue of Ghoulish Tales features stories & essays from Saswati Chatterjee, Jen Conley, Lor Gislason, Jess Hagemann, Justin Lutz, Lena Ng, Shannon Riley, E. F. Schraeder, Danger Slater, perfect kiss strickoll, Jennifer Elise Wang, and Stephanie M. Wytovich. Cover art by Betty Rocksteady. TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction by Max Booth III"Skulls" by Jen Conley"What it Takes to Swallow a Dog" by Stephanie M. Wytovich"The Halloween Horror Show" by Lena Ng"Print or Die" by Justin Lutz"Goop by Goop: Blobiversary Edition" by Lor Gislason"A Certain Level of Discretion" by Jess Hagemann"The One with the Gas Station" by Shannon Riley"Hair Problems" by Danger Slater"The Act One Dog: Animals & Horror" by E. F. Schraeder"Lucy West is Not a Stage Name" by Jennifer Elise Wang"The Skin of Reema Lal" by Saswati Chatterjee"Jude Doe" by perfect kiss strickoll

THE FAMILY THAT DECAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER On a hot summer weekend in San Antonio, Texas, a father and son bond after discovering three impossible corpses buried in their back yard. From the author and screenwriter of We Need to Do Something comes a new novel of body horror and existential crises.

MOTHER! MOTHER! RISE FROM THE GROUND! Stranger Things and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre unite to form a blood-soaked matrimony of violence and corruption. Something sinister's hiding in the small town of Percy, Indiana, and twelve-year-old Joshua Washington and Alonzo Jones are about to find themselves up close and personal with it. After a harmless night of petty property damage leads to the unthinkable, the red and blue lights of a cop car are the last things these boys want to see. Especially a cop car driven by something not quite human. Enter Mary Washington and Ottessa Jones. Their sons have been best friends for years, and now Josh and Alonzo have been abducted in the dead of night. Worst of all, the local sheriff refuses to believe they're missing, leaving it up to Mary and Ottessa to take the law into their own hands before a family of ungodly lunatics can complete a ritual decades in the making. Together they will embark on a surreal and violent journey into a land of corrupt law enforcement, small-town secrets, gravitational oddities, and ancient black magic.