Death Is Funny Sometimes by MC August

 


Death Is Funny Sometimes
MC August
4 Stars

Genre: Horror, Short Stories
Pages: 145
Published: 12 May 2022

Publisher's Blurb

DEATH IS FUNNY SOMETIMES through this collection of 13 stories of horror and science fiction. Among them are…

ANOTHER WILD NIGHT AT THE FUCKED HEN – A former punk rocker turned bar owner protects his patrons from the latest blitz of vampires who aren’t thirsty for beer.

ONE HUNDRED DEGREES AFTER MIDNIGHT – A wrongly convicted man’s final hours on the planet before his execution on death row.

DEAD KID AT A SLEEPOVER – Fun nostalgia trip of a typical sleepover with friends in the 1980s. Just with a dead kid.

SAL & SON – A butcher shop owner seeks revenge against New York mobsters after his father is killed for failing to pay protection money. This one is for slasher fans.

POSTCARDS FROM CHERNOBYL – A young girl who is immune to radiation takes a stand against a government experiment to dominate the world during the nuclear arms race of the 1980s.

MIKE & MANDY FIGHT THROUGH THE END OF THE WORLD – Mike and Mandy were ready to finalize their divorce and start a new life. But the zombie apocalypse screwed it all up. It was just one of those days.

HOW TO CATCH CRAWFISH AS TOLD BY RUFUS WHEELER – In the Louisiana bayou a down on his luck father makes a strange discovery while crawfishing and has hope it can give his son a better life.

SUPERFICIAL CRACKS IN A PORCELAIN FACE – An aging star of Italian Giallo cinema is not ready to retire.


Review

An eclectic collection of 13 short stories all connected by death and the strange circumstances that can lead to it.

Each story is very different. We have Zombies, Genetic Experiments, A washed-up movie star, a tragedy at a sleepover, a corpse collector, Vampires, a creature from the deep, Aliens, a vengeful priest and much more.

Each story shocks and entertains in equal measure and with such a diverse accumulation of genres they’ll be something here for everyone.

Something you can read cover to cover or just dip into when the fancy takes you. Well worth a read


Author

MC August is a former editor from Chicago. That job sucked.

Thanks for reading my books.

Come say hello on twitter @MichaelAugust.


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