Enlarge Your Tentacles, Overnight!: a short novel

August Engstrom's life is a mess. Forced to move back home after losing his scholarship, Auggie now works the night shift at the local university library while he struggles to keep his grades above water. To make matters worse, his mother doesn't know the real reason for his return home. She thinks he's come back to care for her post-stroke. Then one stormy night everything changes when he gives in to temptation and tries an enhancement ointment he knows he shouldn't. And as with all such "too-good-to-be-true" promises--this one is no exception. Enlarge Your Tentacles, Overnight! is an exciting mash-up of horror and dark humor immersed in a (dare we say, more nuanced) coming-of-age tale--with tentacles.Includes a bonus tentacled novelette: "Tilting at Martians"

About the Author

As a child, Pat R. Steiner once found himself hanging from a nail pounded into a tree. Left there by his older siblings, he happily communed with the tree until his mother dragged the whereabouts of the missing younger brother from the guilt-ridden children. Since then he has had a fascination with nature (including the human variety) along with its many mysteries. His writings and art are his attempts to explain these Big Questions as well as those more mundane. Pat is the author of the dark fantasy novel Enlarge Your Tentacles, Overnight! as well as the novellas wyrd and The White Hart. His short stories have appeared in Eric Flint's Grantville Gazette: Universe Annex and alongside Stephen King in the horror/science fiction anthology Qualia Nous. Pat is also a winner in the long-running international Illustrators of the Future Contest. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two children. Visit him on Facebook or at patsteiner.com.

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