The Crawling Abattoir

The Crawling Abattoir

For a group of short stories written over a period of several years for unrelated reasons, "The Crawling Abattoir" wouldn't seem a like candidate to have a theme, but it does: the hilarity of horror. The funny side of agony. Hit me with your torture-shtick! <br /><br />From the desperation of a lonely necrophile deeply frustrated by unrequited corpse-love; to a really rotten clown's long drawn-out discovery that success comes only after paying his dues in multiple broken bones, lacerated kidneys, lots and lots of blood and more; and to the horrible, horrible, (really horrible) misfortunes of Little Timmy, an innocent youngster badly mistreated by the world for no very good reason other than the reader's enjoyment; this collection will jam a rusty icepick all the way through your funny-bone, and you'll laugh until you cry through months of expensive, excruciating elbow rehabilitation. Enjoy!<br /><br />“Martin Mundt is a nasty, warped, zero-temperature so-and-so who can’t put two words together without first snickering, then slitting their throats. No wonder reading him is such a pleasure.” -- Peter Straub<br /><br /><br />TABLE OF CONTENTS<br /><br />PREFACE:<br />14 Years Later, The Abattoir Crawls On<br />By John Everson<br /><br />INTRODUCTION:<br />A Cookie With Arsenic In It<br />By Jay Bonansinga<br /><br />STORIES: <br />DWF<br />Nightfighter<br />Bug Mess<br />The Worst Clown in the World<br />The Reincarnation of the Dolly Llama<br />Emptiness, Shaped Like a Man<br />Kevin Bacon Killed My Girlfriend<br />Maniac Worm<br />My Love Is a Dead, Dead Rose<br />Road Rage<br />Autoreaper<br />The Willies<br />Stuck On You<br /><br />ABOUT:<br />About the Author<br />Books By Martin Mundt