High Strangeness

by Marc Shapiro (Introduction)

A zombie goes looking for something more important than his next meal. A one hit wonder faces certain death or worse because he refuses to play ‘Free Bird’. An X rated ghost story plays out on the floor of a porno film dubbing stage. A low level drug dealer comes up with the perfect plan to wipe out the competition. A stud in a post Apocalyptic world has one small problem.

These and other stories of the just plain weird, bizarre and unclassifiable are your ticket to ride the dark skies of High Strangeness, the debut short story collection by New York Times Bestselling Author Marc Shapiro.

There’s some squishy stuff, some Merchant Ivory stuff, some extreme stories, some subtle, some extreme. It’s all part of Marc Shapiro’s master plan to mix pathos, hope, melancholy, humor and real characters into a stew of shadows, light, carnage and feelings of ‘What the fuck!’

Shapiro, whose stories defy genre specifics, credits Rod Serling, Charles Bukowski, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury. He lives and dies by the vibe of Black Sabbath, Dio, the soundtracks from The Exorcist and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and the more manic strains of 60’s psychedelia.

65 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 29, 2013

About the author

Marc Shapiro is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography, J.K. Rowling: The Wizard behind Harry Potter, and more than a dozen other celebrity biographies. He has been a freelance entertainment journalist for more than twenty-five years, covering film, television, and music for a number of national and international newspapers and magazines.

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