The Good, The Bad, and the Utterly Screwed: Haunted lightbulbs, zombie penguins, crazy neighbours and other tales of weird woe

by Steff Metal

Amelia jumps at the chance to go to Antarctica to study male emperor penguins. But her research takes a dangerous turn when she ends up trapped in a cabin with a man who doesn’t seem to be quite human any more. Larry is going on a road trip across Australia to meet the Messiah, so why has he got a pistol hidden in the glove box? Elisa and Stuart were star-crossed lovers, but a late-night tragedy leaves them in a very odd predicament.

Enjoy 5 stories of weird woe and delightful disaster in this humorous horror short story collection by New Zealand author Steff Metal, along with an excerpt from her novel, "At War With Satan" – a tale of love, redemption, and heavy metal that is part Dante's Infernot, part Wayne’s World.

71 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 28, 2013

About the author

Steff Metal lives in an off-grid house on a slice of rural paradise near Auckland, New Zealand, with her cantankerous drummer husband, their cat, Chairman Meow, and their medieval sword collection. The first CD she ever brought was Metallica's 'Ride the Lightning', and she's been a card-carrying member of the black-t-shirt brigade ever since.

Steff writes about metal music, living off-grid, and her adventures with home-brewing on her blog www.steffmetal.com. At War With Satan is her first novel.