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Snuggling the Grotesque
2024
First Published
4.19
Average Rating
282
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We apologize in advance for the fatal blow to your sanity, but Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jeff Strand is back with another short story collection! Yes, the author of Gleefully Macabre Tales, Dead Clown Barbecue, Everything Has Teeth, Candy Coated Madness, and Freaky Briefs isn’t done with you yet. There will be serial killers. There will be cosmic horror. There will be extremely demented cooking competitions. There will be pink fizzy drinks. There will be Santa Claus, hangings in the Old West, body swaps, some light cannibalism, and monsters galore. The twenty-six stories contained within these pages include fan favorites like “Torture Porn For Prudes” and “Rope and Limb,” along with the Splatterpunk Award-winning story “Next Best Baker.” There are strange, twisted tales like “Insufficiently Splattery,” “Devil-Powered Death Train of Doom,” and “Mouthy.” There’s even the depraved “Mac & Millie,” which you should definitely not read. Prepare a cup of hot cocoa and put on your comfiest pajamas, because you’re about to be Snuggling the Grotesque. Table of SwapRope and LimbTorture Porn For PrudesPink PassionGhosts of Candies PastTurn MeAvert Thine EyesDevil-Powered Death Train of DoomDump TruckNext Best BakerCherry TreeMouthyAll I Want For Christmas Is Your Two Front TeethHold Your BreathFirst DateTeenage Death SongLost GatorInsufficiently SplatteryThe Mummy's BiteMy Favorite Halloween MemoryGhetto BlasterAnother Santa StoryThe WellThe Body Hidin' SpotY2K FeastMac & MillieAnd, of course, an introduction and author notes on each story!

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Author

Jeff Strand
Author · 84 books
Author of a bunch of demented books, including PRESSURE, DWELLER, A BAD DAY FOR VOODOO, WOLF HUNT, SINGLE WHITE PSYCHOPATH SEEKS SAME, BENJAMIN'S PARASITE, FANGBOY, THE SINISTER MR. CORPSE, and lots of others. Four-time Bram Stoker Award finalist. Four-time Bram Stoker Award loser. Ten-time Bram Stoker Award Master of Ceremonies.
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