Beach Blanket Zombie: Weird Tales of the Undead & Other Humanoid Horrors - Softcover

McLaughlin, Mark; McCarty, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434440990 ISBN 13: 9781434440990

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2012

Synopsis

Zombies! Ravenous, relentless zombies! Their savage appetite for living flesh has given Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin ample food for thought. His fiction collection BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE features 33 stories of the living dead and other humanoid monstrosities.   Upon reading BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will learn about zombies created by Internet witches, and discover the bizarre secrets of the isle of Zovemba, also known as Zombie Island. And that's not all. To satisfy your hunger for horror, McLaughlin has added even more stories about other types of humanoid creatures. Fiends and freaks come in many forms, and some of the very worst attempt to pass for people.   In this collection, you will find such ghastly, pulse-pounding tales of the macabre as "Beach Blanket Zombie," "The Agony of Claude Bawls," "Tears of the Expressionist Aphrodite," "Cyber-Vengeance of the Internet Witches," "ZOM BEE MOO VEE," "Tell Your Secrets to the Slime," "The Bloody Woman and the Chameleon Man, Also Known as Mom and Dad," "Hello! My Name is Halja," "Notes Concerning the Death and/or Decomposition of Reality, "The Tale Of The Cat-Headed Man, The Man-Headed Dog, and the Lady With Rats For Hands" ... and many more.   What others are saying about the fiction of Mark McLaughlin:    "In the most devious manner, McLaughlin's stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister 'humor' at the gallows of the human comedy."-- Author Thomas Ligotti    "Listen up. Noel Coward is back. Salvador Dali is back. Dylan Thomas is back. And they're all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. Absolutely fabulous. .... If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin."-- Author Simon Clark

About this title

From the Author:

Beach Blanket Zombie features my very finest zombie stories, as well as many of my most chilling tales about humanoid monsters. I hope you enjoy it!

About the Author:

Mark McLaughlin is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more. Many of his books fit within the literary tradition of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers, and Ambrose Bierce. His latest paperback releases are the story collections, Empress Of The Living Dead: 25 Tales Of Horror & The Bizarre; The House Of The Ocelot & More Lovecraftian Nightmares with Michael Sheehan, Jr.; Horrors & Abominations: 24 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos with Michael Sheehan, Jr.; Hideous Faces, Beautiful Skulls; Best Little Witch-House In Arkham; and Dracula Transformed & Other Bloodthirsty Tales with Michael McCarty.   McLaughlin's latest digital work is Stainless Steel Sarcophagus: Tales Of Lovecraftian Fantasy & Horror. It is his latest collection of dark fantasy/horror tales on Kindle, cowritten by Michael Sheehan, Jr. Another recent Kindle release from McLaughlin is The Arrival Of Our New Master: A Lovecraftian Armageddon, an epic poem which tells of the return of Nyarlathotep to the modern world.      McLaughlin has collaborated with Michael Sheehan, Jr., on the following Kindle story collections: The Abominations Of Nephren-Ka & Three More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos; The Horror In The Water Tower & Five More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos; The Blasphemy In The Canopic Jar & More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos; Shoggoth Apocalypse & More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos; The Relic In The Egyptian Gallery & More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos; The Creature In The Waxworks: Tales Of Weird & Lovecraftian Horror; The Testament Of Cthulhu: Tales Of Weird Fantasy & Horror; and Stainless Steel Sarcophagus: Tales of Lovecraftian Fantasy & Horror. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1434440990
• ISBN 13: 9781434440990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248