I’ve always loved both horror and comedy. So imagine my delight discovering the two could be blended together into a roller coaster ride of highs and lows. Movies such as Ghostbusters, Army of Darkness, and Big Trouble in Little China are perfect examples. In each, you have a potentially terrifying situation, coupled with characters who are too full of themselves to play the victim – yet not quite competent enough to be the hero either. It’s inspired me to spend countless hours behind my computer crafting my own horrific worlds, coupled with characters who simply refuse to take it seriously. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Meet Bill Ryder. He drinks too much, curses, a lot, and spends way too much time playing D&D with his asshole friends. Now he’s about to get bitten by a vampire. Too bad for him, even the undead have standards.
It’s hard to live forever when everyone wants you dead.
If you like thrills, chills, magic, and badass one-liners then Quincy Harker Demon Hunter is the series for you. Set in rural NC, this series follows the immortal descendent of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray from the classic tale of Dracula. It’s a fresh, modern take on a tale as old as time itself...and it doesn’t hurt that it's fun as all hell to read. Set in a world of nightmare terrors, Quincy Harker is a hero who isn’t impressed with any of that crap. In the world of horror/comedy, it doesn’t get much better.
Academy Award Winner Whoopi Goldberg says, “I love these books!”
Dracula calls him nephew. His guardian angel calls him Q. Demons call him The Reaper.
Award-winning dark fantasy with action, snark, and demons galore. Straight out of the pages of the legendary vampire novel Dracula comes a demon hunter for the modern world.
Quincy Harker is the immortal magic-wielding son of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray from the classic novel Dracula. Today he lives in Charlotte, NC, hunting demons and making the world a safer place while making wisecracks and tossing back shots.
There should be no doubt for anyone who follows me that I love any tale that involves an underdog loser forced to either save the world or die trying. Even better if it involves rampaging tentacle beasts and other Lovecraftian horrors. Throw in a talking cockroach with a serious attitude problem, and you have a perfect recipe for that succulent dish known as horror/comedy. Definitely, a must-read for anyone who enjoys a good laugh in between their screams.
One loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell are all that stand between YOU and hell on earth.
Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. So clueless, that he doesn't even realize the beer cave in the corner store where he works is the gateway to hell. The gate needs a hero, but Lloyd's a zero, a loser with a capital L. He's ten thousand dollars in debt and lives with his parents. He's been fired from every job he's ever had. He was the first thing his ex-girlfriend…
If you enjoy horror colored with off-color laughs, but you’re not in the mood for a long series, then you can truly do no better than Jeff Strand. He is without question the master of standalone horror/comedy stories, and this 100% shows in Clowns Vs. Spiders. It’s a novel designed to play upon many people’s worst fears, while somehow keeping their eyes glued to the story. You’ll hate yourself a little bit more with every page you read, but damn, Jeff makes self-loathing more fun than it has any right to be.
Jaunty the Clown just wants to entertain families with lighthearted slapstick antics, but people think of clowns as terrifying, nightmarish creatures who hide in closets or under beds. When Jaunty, along with his fellow performers Guffaw, Wagon, Reginald The Pleasant Clown, and Bluehead are fired from the circus, they're told that the world just doesn't like clowns anymore.
Still, clowns have to eat. And since these clowns don't eat children, to make ends meet they're eventually forced to take a job in a popular haunted attraction, the Mountain of Terror. Instead of charming entertainers, they're now scary clowns. A zombie…
If there is one thing in this world I love as much as a good scream, it’s playing D&D with my friends. Well, Critical Failures is like what it would be having those same jackasses alongside me as I got sucked into the game world – and subsequently discovered I sucked there as much as in real life. I like to think I’d be either Aragorn or Legolas if thrust into a fantasy world, when the reality is I’d probably end up more like their drunk cousins who their families never talk about or invite over for the holidays. Well, Caverns and Creatures is 100% the series for those who feel the same way. Strap on your sword, pull out your spellbook, and prepare to roll a natural 1 as you set out on the journey of a lifetime...or five minutes considering the ineptitude of this adventuring party.
What if you and your friends got to live the game for real? What if you and your friends were assholes? After relentlessly mocking their strange new Game Master, Tim and his friends find themselves trapped in the bodies of their fantasy game characters, in a world where the swords, the magic, and the gastrointestinal issues are all too real. They learn hard lessons about tolerance and teamwork, and a new meaning for the term “dump stat”. Ha ha. Just kidding. They don't learn shit. Never before have comedy and fantasy come together so much like a train wreck, in…
There’s no doubt that It leans far heavier on the horror scale than the comedy one, yet you can always count on Stephen King to deliver a few good laughs to lighten up the mood...right before dropping on axe onto the back of your head. I would call It perhaps the most frightening novel of all time, not to mention pretty damned disturbing as well. Yet, I find myself enjoying the hell out of myself every single time I reread it...and trust me when I say that isn’t a small number of times. There’s a reason Stephen King is and remains the master of horror.
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27 years later, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back...
Derry, Maine was just an ordinary town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live.
It was a group of children who saw- and felt- what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes…
Dr Dee has designs for a British Empire that will dominate the world for ages to come ushering in Revelation, and with the aegis of the Angels, he has the power to make it a reality.
But, two elements are missing, and through blackmail and occult ritual, infamous swordswoman Captain Lament Evyngar and her giant Dutch comrade are forced to journey to the war-ravaged Spanish Netherlands on a quest that will reveal the truth about strange entities that use humans to fight out their eternal conflicts and in doing so alter Lament and the course of history forever.
Infamous swordswoman Captain Lament Evyngar awaits execution in the Tower of London, charged with heresy and attempted regicide, but all is not as it seems. Unwittingly entangled in the schemes of the Angels, she recounts her tale to the Queen's sorcerer, Dr Dee, who is more than a little responsible for her predicament.
Dr Dee has designs for a British Empire that will dominate the world for ages to come, and with the aegis of the Angels, he has the power to make it a reality. But, two elements are missing, and through blackmail and occult ritual, Lament and her…
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