Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Humorous - Black Humor

From the warped mind of Lance Carbuncle comes another genre-defying tale of mayhem, madness, and revenge. When a portal to the netherworld spews noxious fumes over an entire town, the villagers are collectively driven mad and direct their murderous rage toward one outcast youth. With almost the whole town set against him, Greg Samsa does the only thing he can, turning to his deceased grandfather's occult paraphernalia to help defend himself. In the attic of his dilapidated family mansion, Greg builds an army of reanimated fetal pigs, stoner lunkhead servants, flying...

From Florida's king of mayhem--"compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey--comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms.

No one worships the Sunshine State as much as Serge A. Storms. Perpetually hunting Floridian arcana and lore, he and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, are on the road again. This time they're on a frenzied literary pilgrimage that leads them back to Riviera Beach, the cozy seaside town where the boys spent their formative years.

Growing...

Rick Rousser is a man who was raised by strict but fair parents in West Texas just after the Vietnam War. He has a relatively normal childhood and grows into a decent man. Rick becomes a pharmacist and marries his college sweetheart. His life is turned upside down when the woman of his dreams turns into a nightmare. Despair and depression set in. He gives up everything and begins a journey of debauchery and self-pity with no direction or destination. At the end of his rope, a fortuitous friendship develops. With the help of his new friend, Rick starts over. He finds happiness and even...

Collected here for the first time are all four parts of the Crowley: Ravensblack Affair serialisation. Follow Crowley, Bryson, Reed and Lafferty as they uncover and fight against an evil growing in London and across the United Kingdom.

This is the compilation of The Ravensblack Affair Mad Dogs and Englishmen By Day and By Night Crowley's Last Stand And includes the short story The Ghosts of Claverly Hall

The jackpot Cam hit in Vegas finally gave him the chance to party like a rock star. He never wanted to forget the weekend he barely remembers, so he got himself a permanent souvenir: his first tattoo. Now more tattoos are beginning to appear and Cam has no idea why.



Mornings in the SoCal apartment he shares with his best bud are all starting off the same way: Cam wakes up and discovers a new ink breakout somewhere on his body. Sometimes it’s undecipherable writing. Other times it’s a strange symbol. Every time it’s a blemish even his most expensive exfoliant...

Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels. A young man spends a whole day lying naked on the floor of his apartment, conversing casually with his roommates, pondering the past, considering the lives being lived around him. In the odd and funny, sad yet somehow hopeful conceit of Sean Beaudoin's story "Exposure," are all the elements that make his debut collection, Welcome Thieves, a standout. In twelve virtuosic stories, Beaudoin trains his absurdist's eye on the ridiculous...

One of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century, Donald Barthelme wrote novels, short stories, parodies, plays, satires, fables, and essays that captured the good, the bad, but most of all the strange of America. With Barthelme, strange may come both in the tale and in the form--it may surface in a riotous crowd tamed by saxophones, or in a story accompanied by stage directions--but...

Перед вами эпический роман Ярослава Гашека – «Похождения бравого солдата Швейка» – настоящее сокровище мировой литературы. Действие романа разворачивается во время Первой мировой войны, на территории доживающей последние годы Австро-Венгерской империи. Произведение описывает события происходящие с Йозефом...

ABOUT THE BOOK
Angelica Pascoli, known best by her moniker of "Ace," is an ex-CIA assassin turned independent contractor. Semi-retired and taking only "special" jobs, she's been living a comfortable life on her pleasant villa in southern Italy for the past four years.
Now Ace has been summoned (not entirely unexpectedly) and must return to her roots in New Jersey. Her Uncle Tony, the head of the crime family where she grew up, learned, and honed the skills required to maintain her "career," has always considered Ace his logical successor. He recognized Ace's leadership...