Dark Humor Satire

Archer is a semi-celebrated novelist and sex-toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John's girlfriend, Sara, envies Archer's writing career. And Sara's roommate, Lucas, wishes he'd never lost his girlfriend to the man. Money, friendship, and resentment unspool in the conversations we have as we're coming of age and coming to grips.

With biting wit, Aurora Stewart de Peña satirizes the creative industry she’s spent years in. From the people who brought you the invention of advertising comes Julius Julius, a rambling architectural wonder, outpost of the very first ad man of ancient Pompeii, built on the backs of generations of creative survivors who just want to lie on the floor of a conference room and cry about the lumber account without being sexually harassed.

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari - sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will - for a price - allow governments to parade their troops past his masterpiece: a painting so mesmerizing it can incite entire regiments to rush headlong into battle.

Meet Rowena Halley, a former human rights activist turned academic. Rowena thought teaching on US college campuses would be a lot safer than interviewing torture victims in Russia. Boy, was she wrong. Rowena quickly gets caught up in campus intrigue that threatens to turn deadly. Meanwhile, the life and lover she thought she’d left behind in Moscow might not be so firmly back in the past as she’d believed.

It’s bad enough that its venom-dripping chelicerae can slice through flesh like warm butter. Worse? It’s right there under the bunk. It’s a fact now. To make it through the night, the children must obey the rules: don’t get out of bed, stay out of the shadows, and don’t wake the beast. But as the threats multiply, so do the rules of survival. And with the safety of dawn still hours away, the fun is just beginning.

Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious—perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters—not because she wants to but because it’s the right thing to do—does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating her boyfriend for killing a spider. Then, during a mimosa-soaked Sunday brunch, she meets her boyfriend’s alluring mother, Millie. As they begin spending time together, getting pedicures and drinking martinis, Cara becomes hooked on Millie and this new freedom from the harsh realities of life in the twenty-first century.

Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings who must get paid along the journey to the addicts, so do the characters who need to be nourished by the luminaries who make up this star-studded world above us. James Musgrave’s collection of 11 stories, in many ways, addresses the theme of “star power”, but in a way that satirizes the stereotypical “Hollywood endings” in very unique and literary ways.

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. “The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.” Some things in life can’t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie’s deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip.

La oscuridad de Guayaquil que muestra Gabriela Alemán en su novela Poso Wells, parece surgir del sedimento (el poso) del cuento de Wells. El país de los ciegos ambientado en Los Andes ecuatorianos. La novela continúa ese mito, el resabio de ese mito, y hace aflorar del fondo, lo monstruoso latinoamericano, a través de lo grotesco, la fantasía desaforada, el comic.

When a pile of sh!t from space lands near a renowned filmmaker’s set, inspiration strikes. Take a journey up a cosmic mountain of excrement with the director and his film crew as they ascend into madness led only by their own vanity and obsession. This is a nightmare about creation. This is a dream about poop. This is a call to arms against vowels.

Uma comunidade plural e anárquica encontra-se no Centro de Emagrecimento Ingatori para assistir à semifinal da Copa de 2014. Enquanto os frequentadores testemunham o fiasco histórico do 7 x 1, flashbacks narram suas trajetórias individuais: embora tenham personalidades muito distintas, o excesso de quilos parece unificar suas identidades; como se obesidade fosse um gigantesco rótulo padronizador. Os próprios sobrepesados brincam: um magro que habita um corpo gordo é um trans? E uma alma rica que nasceu num físico de pobre?

Beautiful, innocent, and generous to a fault, young Candy is thrust into an outrageous world of debauched lechers and dirty old men. Can she close the gap between people by giving fully and satisfying their sizeable needs? Come with Candy on her hilarious misadventures in this raunchy, irreverent, and wildly funny satire of pornography.

Der erste Schelmenroman der Weltliteratur als Hörbuch. Jedes Mal, wenn Lazarillo einen seiner Herren verlässt, weil er es nicht mehr bei ihm aushält, kommt er vom Regen in die Traufe. Ist der erste grausam und geizig, lässt der zweite ihn fast verhungern. Und als er endlich einen findet, der wie ein Edelmann aussieht, stellt sich heraus, dass dieser in Wirklichkeit noch mehr Hunger leidet als er selbst. Also muß Lázaro auch noch für seinen Herren betteln gehen, der sich am Ende aber nicht einmal dankbar erweist.

Imagine James and the Giant Peach, only instead of a giant peach it's a genetic abomination, an unholy hulk of agonized flesh that should not be...and instead of a small boy sharing a jolly adventure with a group of anthropomorphic insects, there is a mindless killing machine on a nightmare voyage through an ecological hell with a group of horrifying freaks! Torture in the name of science! A plastic island inhabited by mutant sea monkeys! Pollution kaiju! A retelling of a beloved children's classic sure to have the original author spinning in his grave!

Darren Carver is vain, selfish, ambitious, corrupt, hedonistic, insincere, and a disgusting lowlife human. He is also your HR director. And your boss. He does not just hate you - he hates everyone. He does not embrace the corporate values. He would rather eat his own vomit than do that; in fact, he would rather eat your vomit. And the female HR director Catrina Carver is the same, if not worse.

In this second volume of his memoirs, Johnny describes how he infiltrated a dangerous gang of "activists" and thwarted a plot to carry out a series of attacks in the UK. We also learn more about Johnny Two Kebabs "the man" as opposed to just the public figure. We gain more insight into Johnny's "inner journey", as well his "outer journey" when he describes his experience of partaking of the "Kebab Of Truth". Johnny reveals more of his true self in this volume and he invites you to join him in eating the "Kebab Of Truth".

Gundolf, der Sohn des Gutsherrn Jayden-Fynn, zweifelt an seinem Verstand, als man ihm offenbart, dass sein alter Vater noch einmal heiraten will. Und als wäre dies nicht schon genug, muss es auch noch Klotilde sein, Gundolfs Ex-Freundin. Was für eine Schmach. Nach einem unfassbar tief gehenden Streit sieht Gundolf keine andere Möglichkeit mehr, als dem Gutshof für immer den Rücken zu kehren.

It is a matter of received wisdom that people are so much more than the sum of their parts. However, in the vast majority of cases, this is simply not true. Never fear; medical science has discovered a solution to the problem and in conjunction with certain corporate backers, a new company has burst into the market that has completely reevaluated the sum of your parts.

In this book, the third volume of the satirical epic poem The Trumpiad, Martin Rowe delves into the tumultuous final year of the 2010s, including the denouement of the Mueller Report, the emergence of the Ukraine conspiracy, and the sundry and daily outrages committed by the President of the United States and his colleague in disruption in the United Kingdom.

Rowe plumbs the depths and details the degradations that, with disturbing consistency, characterized the second year of the administration of the 45th president of the United States, as they had the first. From Melania to Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin to Kim Jong-un, Robert Mueller to Omarosa, The Trumpiad invades the consciousnesses of the many characters who inhabited or infected the swamp, and offers a withering satirical take on the state of our politics.