Product Description: Tired of ordinary weird stories? What you need are some Extremely Weird Stories - and we're here to tell you just where to find them! Experience horror, babes and laughs! See monsters from beyond the grave and before the dawn of history! See Scottish Lakes, black magic and psychotic pseudo-scientists! Musty museums, virtual video vermin and foul fables! See "things" that crawl and claw from the pages of putrid pulps and under the covers of creepy comics! See stuff you'll hope never sees you!
LESS HUMOR AND MORE HORROR FROM VON SHOLLY One thing that's evident about Pete Von Sholly right off the bat is that he is a monster kid...one of those lucky enough to have grown up in the period of the late 50's to the early 70's with late night horror films hosted by those zany horror hosts, as well as magazines like Famous Monsters of Filmland and Monster World. His love and reverence of the era comes through loud and clear in his work. If you've never seen his art, Von Sholly uses a combination of digital photography and effects as well as traditional art to create a unique look. His "stars" are real people, digitally photographed, who then can be manipulated much like a film director does with actors.
This book is decidedly more gory and horrific than his previous book for Dark Horse, Morbid. While there are still humorous elements that are a staple of his work, those take a back seat to pure horror for the most part. In the opening tale, "The Bone Duster", two punks break into a museum to rob the place and only have to worry about the janitor who, curiously, has not aged much in decades. The punks soon find out why...
"Nearly Departed" is a modern day twist on Frankenstein that features about the most bizarre necrophilia scene ever put on paper, not to mention a zombie mother nursing her baby. Doc Lennox is one sick puppy!
Tuxford Noodlefactor, previously seen in Morbid, returns in a new adventure called "Fear My Thumbs" as the nerdy, video game freak is sucked into the television and into the game called "Badbugz" to again save the day.
"Seafood" is an H.P. Lovecraft-inspired story about a mysterious "man", completely covered in a hat, overcoat, and scarf who visits a sushi bar in a little town known as "Innsmouth". Let's just say this guy knows a little bit about fish!
In "Night Gaunts", Sholly excerpts a portion of Lovecraft's "The Fungi from Yuggoth" with his own twisted imagery.
In all there are eleven stories in the book and there's not a weak one in the bunch. A true feast for monster fans and another great effort from Von Sholly!
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