A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist desperately fights to find all copies of the book containing the accursed poem.
A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. T...
Comprises of the pieces that aim to prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. This work contains essays or vignettes that offer a facet of existence as lived in or observed by one of America's original literary talents.
Comprises of the pieces that aim to prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. This work contains essays or vig...
Rant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the 'superspreader', transmits his lethal disease.
Rant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designa...
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual intercourse on film - or die trying.
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual in...
Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy, arrives in the US from his totalitarian homeland, as an 'exchange student' into the welcoming arms of his Midwestern host family. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat, dumb inhabitants to their knees.
Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy, arrives in the US from his totalitarian homeland, as an 'exchange student' into the welcoming arms of his Midwestern...
'Tell-All' is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama full of big gestures and muted psychic torment. A veritable Tourettes Syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list.
'Tell-All' is many things: a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when grand dames like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost. A...
11-year-old Madison has problems: she's overweight, ignored by her parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She's also dead, but not just dead. Madison is in Hell. 'Damned' takes us on her journey as she navigates the Hillocks of Discarded Nail Pairings and the River of Vomit, meeting everyone from Charles Darwin to Marilyn Monroe.
11-year-old Madison has problems: she's overweight, ignored by her parents, and in love with her adopted brother. She's also dead, but not just dead. ...
Madison Spencer is back. Continuing the afterlife adventure begun in 'Damned', Chuck Palahniuk leads us on a journey through a purgatory that only he could imagine. But this purgatory is very familiar. You and I know it as Earth. And while Madison can see and hear every last detail of the world she left behind, she is invisible to everyone who's still alive.
Madison Spencer is back. Continuing the afterlife adventure begun in 'Damned', Chuck Palahniuk leads us on a journey through a purgatory that only he ...
Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth.
Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock ...