by Jeff Strand, Verena Hacker
Jeff Strand is one of the more dependable authors working in and around the horror/thriller genres today.When you pick up a Strand book, you can be pretty sure - Kumquat excepted - that you know what you're going to get. Smart-assed main characters who are never short of a quip, deplorable antagonis...
Benjamin Wilson is a teacher at the local High School and a bit of a smart ass. He also has a secret government experimental parasite crawling around in his guts that he should get removed before it decides to chew its way out. Alas poor Benjamin gets kidnapped during the removal surgery procedure a...
This story opens with high school student Brian playing a violent video game where you kill people for points. After a while, he grabs a meat cleaver and goes after his mom and neighbors in an attempt to score more points. A neighbor has to shoot him to stop him. At his funeral, his teacher Benjamin...
If unluckiness runs in families then Benjamin must be Andrew Mayhem's even unluckier cousin. You can't help but feel for this guy. Just as you think it can't get worse for him, another barrel of awful empties on his head. Just like Strand's other comedic character, there is nothing that will shak...
If you like slapstick style comedy coupled with gore and a horror attitude then strand is the man for you. This tale of a vicious little intestinal parasite fulfills all those criteria and keeps you turning the page for more. If you nit-pick anything an author puts on paper then forget this story....