Beach Blanket Zombie: Weird Tales of the Undead & Other Humano...

Zombies! Ravenous, relentless zombies! Their savage appetite for living flesh has given Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin ample food for thought. His fiction collection BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE features 33 stories of the living dead and other humanoid monstrosities.   Upon reading BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will learn about zombies created by Internet witches, and discover the bizarre secrets of the isle of Zovemba, also known as Zombie Island. And that's not all. To satisfy your hunger for horror, McLaughlin has added even more stories about other types of humanoid creatures. Fiends and freaks come in many forms, and some of the very worst attempt to pass for people.   In this collection, you will find such ghastly, pulse-pounding tales of the macabre as "Beach Blanket Zombie," "The Agony of Claude Bawls," "Tears of the Expressionist Aphrodite," "Cyber-Vengeance of the Internet Witches," "ZOM BEE MOO VEE," "Tell Your Secrets to the Slime," "The Bloody Woman and the Chameleon Man, Also Known as Mom and Dad," "Hello! My Name is Halja," "Notes Concerning the Death and/or Decomposition of Reality, "The Tale Of The Cat-Headed Man, The Man-Headed Dog, and the Lady With Rats For Hands" ... and many more.   What others are saying about the fiction of Mark McLaughlin:    "In the most devious manner, McLaughlin's stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister 'humor' at the gallows of the human comedy."-- Author Thomas Ligotti    "Listen up. Noel Coward is back. Salvador Dali is back. Dylan Thomas is back. And they're all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. Absolutely fabulous. .... If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin."-- Author Simon Clark

About the Author

MARK McLAUGHLIN is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more. His latest releases are the huge story collection, THE WEIRD WORLD OF MARK McLAUGHLIN MEGAPACK®, and HUMAN DOLL: A NOVEL, a tale of suspense set in the entertainment industry.     He is also the author of many works in the literary tradition of H.P. Lovecraft. Story collections in this vein, co-written by MICHAEL SHEEHAN, JR., include THE PRISONER OF CARCOSA, CITY OF LIVING SHADOWS, THE HOUSE OF THE OCELOT, and HORRORS & ABOMINATIONS.    Mark's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in numerous publications, websites, and anthologies, including GALAXY, LIVING DEAD 2, WRITER'S DIGEST, CEMETERY DANCE, MIDNIGHT PREMIERE, DARK ARTS, and two volumes of YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES (DAW Books). He is also the author of many solo collections, including EMPRESS OF THE LIVING DEAD, BEST LITTLE WITCH-HOUSE IN ARKHAM, and HIDEOUS FACES, BEAUTIFUL SKULLS.Mark is the coauthor, with Rain Graves and David Niall Wilson, of THE GOSSAMER EYE, which won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry.

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