Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Humorous - Black Humor

-A kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.---Jonathan Lethem

An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an omnipresent deity--a meta-writer--capable of rewriting reality.

With biting humor and a propulsive, contagious style, amid the accelerated particles of his characteristic obsessions--the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the...

THREE TROUBLED STRANGERS
... find themselves in a dire predicament - drowning in spiraling debt through a succession of poor decisions and rotten judgment.

A BUNGLED SUICIDE ATTEMPT
... unites Harry, Milly and Noah in their time of need. But from the dark emerges a daring solution brimming with risk and reward.

PARTNERS IN CRIME
... they become, but their shift to crime only compounds their existing problems while creating a wealth of brand-spanking new ones.

Does crime always pay? Is it even...

"One of the most exciting new voices to emerge in years. A deft, masterful mix of both bizarro and horror."--Brian Keene, author of The Rising and Ghoul

"Dark and grim and surreal." --Electric Literature

Mondays suck. You get mugged, your car won't start, you miss the bus, and your stylist burns a bald spot into your head. Suddenly you're single and unemployed, and the only friend you have left is a cat. By Tuesday, you've been murdered. But death isn't the end. You find yourself on an odyssey between weird worlds, reborn each time you die, stalked...

To get through college, D.S. Bradley worked as a lifeguard, counted out money as a bank teller, answered the phone at a law firm, sold eye glasses, and sealed and striped parking lots. Since graduating from college, he's taught middle school and high school English, directed a college writing program, and taught college English and writing courses. The experiences, though, that most prepared him for life were the ones he had working as a funeral director.

In this collection of short stories inspired from both life and death, Bradley shares everything from the ridiculous to...

Cultown is the story of Thomas Swan, a charismatic figure who forms a cult called the Milinish. With an odd mix of scientific and religious beliefs, the Milinish begins in Sydney, then moves overseas to become the fastest growing cult in America. Yet Swan's mad reign spirals out of control. Finally, on the brink of disaster, he decides to tell all. Here, in the ultimate inside story, Thomas Swan reveals the secrets and scandals inside the greatest cult of the 21st century.

Cultown is interesting on a number of levels. It explores the psychology of cults: those who...

In the mundane desperation of early-1990s southern Ontario, ten-year-old Soccer Beally kills his neighbor with a brick and vanishes without a trace. Over the following decades, his five enigmatic brothers and sisters--stoic, tormented and strangely resilient--scatter across Toronto and its bleak satellite towns as they struggle to reconcile the brutality of everyday life with their fragmented experiences of unbearable and surreal beauty. ​With twenty-three intricately interwoven stories that piece together the complex ties binding the past to the present, Mark Jordan Manner's debut...

Redemption is a right friendly town... till it isn't.

Hope of Redemption is a quirky horror tale about the town and one of its most notorious residents, Hope McCoy. She's an angelic looking nineteen-year old who sees... and orchestrates... the performance art aspect of her tiny town's darker side. Change is a-comin' when she takes in three strangers.

When Hope smiles, decked out in her sundress and hiking boots, all that's missing is a halo... or, maybe, horns.

Remember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what - someone is killing them.

Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead, activists have taken over the headquarters of a failed bank, the trial of three unscrupulous property developers teeters on the brink of collapse, and in the midst of all this, along comes a mysterious organisation hell-bent on exacting bloody vengeance in the name of the little guy.

Paul Mulchrone doesn't care about any of this; he has...

All I know is, I'm in exile in Scotland, and there's a dead Scouser businessman in my bath. With his toe up the tap.

Meet Simon English, commercial property lawyer, heavy drinker and Scotophobe, banished from London after being caught misbehaving with one of the young associates on the corporate desk. As if that wasn't bad enough, English finds himself acting for a spiralling money laundering racket that could put not just his career, but his life, on the line.

Enter Karen Clamp, an 18 stone, well-read wannabe couturier from the Auchendrossan sink estate, with an encyclopedic...

Now, for the first time in a standalone edition, Thornton Wilder's brilliant, hilarious play which was adapted into the hit Broadway musical Hello, Dolly with an afterword by Tappan Wilder.

Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy old merchant residing in Yonkers has decided it's time to take a wife and hires a matchmaker. But Dolly Gallagher Levi is no ordinary matchmaker. She's a force of nature, with a plan of her own. Levi soon becomes involved in the affairs of the hearts of all those around her--including Vandergelder's niece, his store clerks, assorted young and lovely ladies,...

A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem, Tim Dorsey.

If you're loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot your own "episodes" of your favorite classic television show, Route 66

With Coleman riding shotgun, Serge is rolling down the highway of his dreams in a vintage silver convertible Corvette just like the snazzy car Martin Milner drove. It doesn't matter that the actual Route 66 didn't pass...