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SCARECROW GODS by Weston Ochse
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award! Now in trade paperback.
Scarecrow Gods is the tale of Maxom Phinxs, a black man tortured and disfigured in Vietnam. Maxom, called the Maggot Man by the Tennessee locals, is feared and reviled because of his appearance. Even so, he takes under his wing a troubled
young boy named Danny who’s fighting incest rumors to repair a shattered family, wondering every day if his sister will return to clear it all up.
In southern Arizona, John the New Baptist has created a new religion promising salvation. Most people believe in his strange ways. They don’t understand he is establishing a herd for his personal use. Only Simon, a faithless Alexian Brother, and a homeless man named Billy Bones who speaks in palindromes, anagrams and metaphor realize the evil and engage the Scarecrow Gods—a circle of immense saguaro dressed in Salvation Army clothes who speak wisdom in the wind from pursed coke bottle lips.
Maxom, Simon, Danny and Billy, all fight and converge upon the center of evil as each journeys through the world of imagination, the Land of Inside-Out and across America, striving to defeat demons both personal and real to ultimately discover their deserved salvations.
“THE MOST IMPRESSIVE NOVEL I’VE READ THIS YEAR. Scarecrow Gods is an epic nightmare told by a writer who made me sit up and pay
attention from the very first line…Few books dare to make you think and feel the way this one does. This book is a major accomplishment by a writer who well might be on his way to becoming horror’s next big thing.”
—Michael Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Grave Markings and Play Dead
Book #5 & #6 in the Delirium Hardcover Chapbook series are now available. Each signed and numbered hardcover chapbook is side-sewn and has a full graphic wraparound cover and measures 4 1/2 inches x 6 1/4 inches and is exactly 100 pages.
Book #5 in the Hardcover Chapbook Series.
The six brand-new stories that constitute John Maclay’s latest collection, Divagations, demonstrate not just his specialty, the short-short story, but also his depth of style and characterization in the longer form. As usual, he is dark and downbeat, but at the same time he holds out hope that by honestly engaging with horror, one can find a better end.
In “Messenger,” he treats of a sudden presaging of doom.
In “The Book of Death,” he exhibits the mordant style that has won him praise for such from Joe R. Lansdale and the immortal Ray Russell.
In “Journeys,” he predicts that even after the most horrible of deaths, love and eternity will prevail.
In “Born,” he controversially deals with a major issue of our time.
In “The Cat Lover,” he draws a horrid but then heartwarming lesson for animal lovers everywhere.
And in “Widowed,” he utilizes two of his further specialties, erotic horror and the terrors of middle age, to also venture into the occult for a dark but wanly fulfilling end.
Read John Maclay’s Divagations, and you’ll see why Steve Vernon, in Hellnotes, has said of his collection Dreadful Delineations (also from Delirium), “This is classic material.”
SUCKERS by J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand
Book #6 in the Hardcover Chapbook Series.
Vampires.
Well, not vampires—Pires. Whack-jobs who think they’re vampires. They’ve inducted an innocent young girl into their cult, and her mother has hired legendary (not in a good way) private investigator Harry McGlade to get her back.
Infiltrating this bloodthirsty cult is too big of a job for just one man, especially when he has the intelligence of half a man. But when he joins forces with the also-less-than-100%-competent Andrew Mayhem, maybe, just maybe, their combined efforts will succeed in thwarting this savage menace. Or perhaps they’ll just embarrass themselves and get killed.
Masters of humor-tainted-horror (or horror-tainted-humor) J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand team up for the first time in this hilariously gruesome adventure that does not contain a single lame “You suck!” or “That bites!” joke. Suckers. The ultimate Idiots vs. Phony Vampires extravaganza!
