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Click here to read the full review.
Click here to order Anatomy Courses.
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This Valentine’s Day, put down the pipe bomb and kill yourself with a book instead. Overcome emotional eating by telling your nasty pet what the bullies did to you in junior high. Buy some new sweatpants at K-Mart and breathe easy knowing everybody hates you. Go to church. Reenact your best worst memories with your dad. Shoot up your favorite fast food restaurant. Or just shoot up.
Because black metal is hot.
Because the art museum is a great place to die.
Because books about death and dying are sexy.
Order Anatomy Courses and The Obese to get laid this Valentine’s Day.
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DOUGHNUTS + ZOMBIES + WRESTLERS = AWESOME
It’s time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gather to show off their family recipes, learn new secrets for the perfect shortcake, and perhaps earn a chance to be on the famous cooking show, How Would You Cook It, Then?
When the bake-off is crashed by a federation of pro wrestlers — including American Badass, Jersey Devil Jill, Tiny Giant, The Village Person, Jonah the Whale, the Hellbillies, and the fan favorite Xombie — all hell is set to break loose. Your heart beats faster as you anticipate who will come out on top in the ultimate showdown of the century: soccer moms or pro wrestlers. Anything can happen.
An infected batch of donuts has transformed most of the wrestlers into mindless brain-eaters and the doors of the convention center have been chained shut, leaving the survivors locked inside, forced to fend for themselves against the hungry dead.
Possessing the intensity of a shotgun to the face, Zombie Bake-Off is a stripped-down masterpiece of blood and doughnuts from celebrated author Stephen Graham Jones.
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Lazy Fascist author Riley Michael Parker turns 28 today. Riley’s A PLAGUE OF WOLVES AND WOMEN is a lyrical and haunting novel about a timeless village governed by myth and madness. It’s a stunning work destined to attract a devoted cult following. And it also happens to be the perfect book to cozy up with for this last leg of winter.
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A new short novel by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick, coming from Lazy Fascist on Valentine’s Day 2012.
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The latest issue of classic bizarro journal Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens is now available. And yes, that is a unicorn impaling an army man on the cover. Edited by Bradley Sands, Issue 10 features stories by Laird Hunt, Cameron Pierce, D. Harlan Wilson, Kirk Jones, Kirsten Alene, and more. Here’s the complete table of contents:
GUESS WHAT – Amanda Billings
THE HECTOR REPORT – Eric Hawthorn
ARTICHOKE – Kirsten Alene
EXCURSIONS IN VIRAL PSYCHOLOGY – Kirk Jones
ROMANTIC FUCKING COMEDY – Andrew W. Adams
#30 – Laird Hunt
THE HUIS CLOS HOTEL – D. Harlan Wilson
DIE YOU DOUGHNUT BASTARDS! – Cameron Pierce
DEATH AND THE PEOPLE – Amber Sparks
A REVIEW OF STEVE LOWE’S MUSCLE MEMORY – Matthew Revert
A REVIEW OF SHANE JONES’ A CAKE APPEARED – Bradley Sands
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One of our hottest releases of the year, The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink, is now available for the Kindle.
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Over at SF Signal, Ross Lockhart (managing editor at Night Shade Books and editor of the mammoth The Book of Cthulhu) listed Of Thimble and Threat: The Life of a Ripper Victim by Alan M. Clark among his favorite books of the year. Here’s what Ross had to say:
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