They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but I beg to differ when it comes to jazzy Jeff Strand. His outstanding, hilarious, morbid and gruesome short story collection, GLEEFULLY MACABRE TALES, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and sold out its Delirium limited edition - is now available as an affordable trade paperback from Dark Regions Press. I typically read four or five stories in single author collections and multi-author anthologies then put them down, but I burned through GLEEFULLY MACABRE TALES cover to cover and in record time. And look at that cover: the center kid looks just like the author! I'd recognize those empty, soulless eye sockets and bloody cheeks anywhere. This one warrants Fear Zone's Seal of Approval, and you deserve to be committed if you don't order yours now!

Here's the official press release:

Dark Regions Press
www.darkregions.com

Dark Regions Press is proud to announce the trade paperback edition of "Gleefully Macabre Tales" by Jeff Strand.

Cemetery Dance Magazine says that "No author working today comes close to Jeff Strands's perfect mixture of comedy and terror." Gleefully Macabre Tales compiles 33 of his most twisted blends of cringe-worthy horror and ghoulish humor, with a couple of serious pieces thrown in just to mess with you.

This collection includes tales from his three chapbooks (Two Twisted Nuts, Socially Awkward Moments With An Aspiring Lunatic, and Funny Stories of Scary Sex) and numerous other stories both popular and obscure, including "Really, Really Ferocious" (the one with the wiener dog), "High Stakes" (the one with the slot machine), "Roasting Weenies by Hellfire" (the one with Satan). "The Bad Candy House" (the one with a very unpleasant old man at Halloween) and "The Socket" (the one with the eyeball socket). And, as a special demented bonus, the paperback edition includes the novella Disposal.

It also includes two of his entries in the World Horror Convention gross-out contest. But you don't want to read them.

33 Stories, and one novella! 280 pages in length.
Cover art by Frank Walls

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jeff Strand
Really, Really Ferocious
Socially Awkward Moments Win An Aspiring Lunatic
High Stakes
Special Features
Sex Potion #147
The Three Little Pigs
Everything Has A Purpose
Tem Old West Mutations
Wasting Grandpa
A Bite For A Bite
Glimpses
Common Sense
Gross-Out!
Bad Coffee
Werewolf Porno
An Admittedly Pointless But Mercifully Brief Story With Aliens in it
Munchies
Roasting Weenies By Hellfire
Quite A Mess
I Hold The Stick
Scarecrow's Discovery
Howard, The Tenth Reindeer/Howard Rises Again
Brain Bugs
Cap' N Hank's Five Alarm Nuclear Lava Wings
A Call For Mr. Potty-Mouth
The Bad Man In The Blue House
Abbey's Shriek
The Socket
One of Them
Secret Message
Mr. Sensitive
The Candy House
Disposal
Story Notes

So if you're looking to laugh, gasp, gag, or do all three at the same time, making sort of a weird sound that hurts your lungs and elicits odd glances from nearby pedestrians, don't miss the trade paperback edition of Gleefully Macabre Tales from Dark Regions Press!