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Peculiar Monstrosities is packed with 14 exquisitely crafted stories from new and established authors of Bizarro fiction.

My name is Barry, although it might as well be Loser. Satan owns my soul, and my demon boss, Margery, tortures me with her magical cigarettes every chance she gets. While I’m desperate for freedom, I’ll do anything to stop her from opening the Gates of Hell…or any other crazy thing she has planned. My odds of saving mankind are uncertain, but I have to try.

Los Angeles and Lucifer are a lot alike. They both seduce and lure with promises of wealth, fame, beauty, or love. But those promises are often empty; and even when they’re not, there’s a price to pay.

This book makes fun of the ridiculous people who haunt our lives like politicians, businessmen and bent lawyers who get their just deserts. Sometimes a bit sexy but not lurid, these humorous tales told by ghosts are about how they got revenge on the people who deserved it; well, most of the time.

The history of lycanthropes stretches back to man’s beginnings. From cave drawings and tribal folklore to the Inquisition and the 20th century, man’s fascination with werewolves has never wavered. The field of study has been ripped wide open, with new information uncovered daily. How do you detect a werewolf when they are in human form? What if a family member is a werewolf? How do you defend yourself from an attack? How do you escape from savage lycanthropes? Don’t be caught flat-footed again. This is the field guide everybody needs to protect themselves and their family.

When a construction crew digs up an ancient archaeological site, they unwittingly unleash an evil hellhound bent on world conquest. Now, a growing army of werewolves has taken over the town of silver springs, and the only people who can save the day are the motley crew at the local gun store. Everybody got that?

"Ibid" is a parody by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Ibid is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486-587), whose masterpiece was Op. Cit., "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all." The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels via Salem, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to a prairie dog hole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

What is it about Las Vegas that attracts people from all walks of life? Could there be a creature of unimaginable power somewhere below the City of Sin? Maybe. And if so, it wouldn't be the only thing to worry about.

Will's immortal tales often have a higher body count than a teenage slasher flick—and just as many freakish creatures, and author David Bergantino's retrofitting has turned Shakespeare's centuries-old classics into modern-day fright fests! At Globe University, romance is...complicated. Lenore likes Dimitri who likes Mia who likes Xander who, okay, likes Mia, too. When these mismatched couples are paired off for a summer school “parenting” assignment, trouble is clearly on the horizon—even before a spooky, old-fashioned carnival rolls into town.

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 backyard. From the author and screenwriter of We Need to Do Something comes a new novel of body horror and existential crises.

Sprechende Zombies und ein nerviger Boss halten unsere Hauptfiguren auf Trab. Können sie endlich hinter das Geheimnis der Stadt kommen? Und wo bekommen sie noch mehr Kaffee her? Dazu kommt auch noch ein harter Rückschlag.

The house on Curmudgeon Avenue should be happy now—the nincompoop residents have all met their sorry ends. But they haven't quite left...now that a new family move in, can the house find peace? Or are the ghosts of Curmudgeon Avenue going to interfere with the goings-on, romance, and dramas that new residents bring? Gordon and Zandra Bennett, along with their lovelorn daughter, Krystina, move all the way from London to Curmudgeon Avenue. Zandra has her heart set on renovating the four-story Victorian terrace and hires Harry to rip out the old and bring in the new.

Schöne neue Welt oder doch die Hölle auf Erden? Unsere Gruppe lebt sich langsam ein, aber nicht alles verläuft nach Plan. Auch Dates und gratis Kaffee können einen nicht über die Geheimnisse hinwegsehen lassen. Am Ende zählt nur eins: Zombies sind auch nur Menschen.

What if the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud was not about an alleged murder, or a stolen pig, or an elopement, but ran much deeper? Ushaville, West Virginia is like a tiny European city in the piney wilderness. Four failed punk musicians’ van breaks down in Ushaville, and as they meet people in the town, they discover Ushaville’s bloody secret. The punks group up with a faithless priest; a skeptical ghost hunter; a real, magical fairy; a weak-minded professor; a Cherokee man; and a local bartender. This ridiculous, unlikely group of antiheroes must save the world, or die trying.

In the spirit of the shot-on-video horror of the '80s, Meat Photo is a transgressive, absurd horror comedy and the love child of Andersen Prunty and C. V. Hunt. Meat photos are the hottest trend. Everyone has one or is willing to do anything to get one. It’s all anyone can talk about on social media. Grab your meat photo. Wear it like a mask. Join the Great Migration to the local Dollar General.

Die Apokalypse ist nah! Gepaart wird sie mit einem neuen Haarschnitt, einem Ausflug ins Möbelhaus und natürlich Klopapier. Unsere Gruppe beginnt ihre Jobs und neue Bekanntschaften werden geschlossen.

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!

Was haben ein Körnerkissen, Schokolade und Aquaman gemeinsam? Sie sind in der Apokalypse überlebenswichtig. Zumindest für Sandy und ihre neuen Gefährten. Nach der Flucht aus Kais Haus müssen sie sich neuen Gefahren stellen und einer Reise, die nur vielleicht an ein Ziel führt.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Hell - the Raisining!

Surviving a zombie apocalypse is no laughing matter. You need the right guns, the right gear, and the right people to survive. Unfortunately, the customers of the zombie apocalypse call center don’t have the right guns, the right gear, or the right people supporting them. Now the world has gone mad and zombies are everywhere. Can the customers survive the zombies that are now taking over the world? Can they survive the cutthroat survivalists who are on the hunt for more supplies and guns? Can they trust each other enough to live another day?