What do you think?
Rate this book
An Extra Topping of Horror
Brian is perfectly happy delivering pizza to incompetent devil worshipers, lustful demons, show tune singing vampires, possessed little girls who love riddles, and over-affectionate houseplants. His life gets even better when a time traveling babe he rescues tells him they will be lovers in the future.But his carefree life is destroyed when aliens bent on taking over the Earth open a rival pizza place in town and he discovers exactly what their secret ingredient is. Now he must use all the secrets he knows about his hometown and its inhabitants to stop aliens from taking over the Earth and more importantly, keep his job.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 7, 2011
2 people want to read
About the author
Darrell B. Nelson
17 books34 followersDarrell B. Nelson is a former Securities Broker and Insurance Agent who has decided to use the total meltdown of his former industry, and the total destruction of any illusions of personal financial security the meltdown caused, as an opportunity to pursue a writing career.
His passion for writing was encouraged at a young age by his his mother, who would read to him every night. Fueling his dreams in ways only books can. As he got older she took him to the library every week. Letting his imagination soar.
While other children his age were dealing with where they were and what they were doing, he was flying through space helping to build Asimov's Foundation, Make way for Clarke's Star Child, or living on Bova's Selene. Needless to say, he tripped over things a lot.
When he started writing he knew in the future his works would be of great importance, as time travelers arrived and started watching his every move. Or, maybe they were cats, wondering if he would pet them and rub their ears. Time Travelers have whiskers and like to curl up in your lap, right?
In his free time he likes to hang out on Facebook, marveling at how far we've come since the time of the Egyptians who would worship cats and write on walls.
His passion for writing was encouraged at a young age by his his mother, who would read to him every night. Fueling his dreams in ways only books can. As he got older she took him to the library every week. Letting his imagination soar.
While other children his age were dealing with where they were and what they were doing, he was flying through space helping to build Asimov's Foundation, Make way for Clarke's Star Child, or living on Bova's Selene. Needless to say, he tripped over things a lot.
When he started writing he knew in the future his works would be of great importance, as time travelers arrived and started watching his every move. Or, maybe they were cats, wondering if he would pet them and rub their ears. Time Travelers have whiskers and like to curl up in your lap, right?
In his free time he likes to hang out on Facebook, marveling at how far we've come since the time of the Egyptians who would worship cats and write on walls.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
July 27, 2018
"My name is Brian and I do deliver."
* * *
"I am Brian of the, um, Pizza Joint."
"I am afraid I have never heard of the land of the Pizza Joint. Is it far?"
"I'm afraid so. This would normally be outside our delivery area, but we could do a meet up."
* * *
"We prefer to be called Delivery Drivers. And it's not a good idea to mess with us."
"I'll see you in hell."
"Sorry, but hell's outside our delivery area."
* * *
"Thank you for calling Pizza Joint. Will this be for carry-out or delivery?"
* * *
"We need you to make a bigger Pentachron," It told me.
"Now? It can't wait until I have my coffee?"
* * *
This book is chockful of witticisms, and I loved reading this book. I just think the author has a masterpiece on his hands, if he can make it perhaps a little more deep and exorcise the tacky references to horror and B-movies. As I've noticed in his other book, Dymon's Lair, he adds on scenes that have shock value but, because of their unappealing content, do more harm than good.
I do think he could be a great satire writer. The central premise of a pizza boy steadfastly doing his job, on the straight and narrow, and batting away supernatural forces without blinking is an excellent premise, as those lines above suggest. The time travel, with its intentionally hilarious and convoluted explanations, adds a nice deeper dimension to this book. The scrambled ending didn't do the book much justice, perhaps a nonsensical ending with Brian and Amanda outwitting the villains would have been good, just like what Doctor Who would do.
I would love for this to be re-formatted as a serious work, without taking away the play and fun that makes it infectious. Brian as the central character is perfect casting.
I thought the "conspiracy theory" explanation for the Star Wars movies was also hilarious, as well as the dialogue with the Pentachron. Priceless!
Oh please... get a professional book cover. This book deserves its moment in the sun (as well as excising more of the cheesy elements in the prose -- symbolized by the pizza covering on the cover).
* * *
"I am Brian of the, um, Pizza Joint."
"I am afraid I have never heard of the land of the Pizza Joint. Is it far?"
"I'm afraid so. This would normally be outside our delivery area, but we could do a meet up."
* * *
"We prefer to be called Delivery Drivers. And it's not a good idea to mess with us."
"I'll see you in hell."
"Sorry, but hell's outside our delivery area."
* * *
"Thank you for calling Pizza Joint. Will this be for carry-out or delivery?"
* * *
"We need you to make a bigger Pentachron," It told me.
"Now? It can't wait until I have my coffee?"
* * *
This book is chockful of witticisms, and I loved reading this book. I just think the author has a masterpiece on his hands, if he can make it perhaps a little more deep and exorcise the tacky references to horror and B-movies. As I've noticed in his other book, Dymon's Lair, he adds on scenes that have shock value but, because of their unappealing content, do more harm than good.
I do think he could be a great satire writer. The central premise of a pizza boy steadfastly doing his job, on the straight and narrow, and batting away supernatural forces without blinking is an excellent premise, as those lines above suggest. The time travel, with its intentionally hilarious and convoluted explanations, adds a nice deeper dimension to this book. The scrambled ending didn't do the book much justice, perhaps a nonsensical ending with Brian and Amanda outwitting the villains would have been good, just like what Doctor Who would do.
I would love for this to be re-formatted as a serious work, without taking away the play and fun that makes it infectious. Brian as the central character is perfect casting.
I thought the "conspiracy theory" explanation for the Star Wars movies was also hilarious, as well as the dialogue with the Pentachron. Priceless!
Oh please... get a professional book cover. This book deserves its moment in the sun (as well as excising more of the cheesy elements in the prose -- symbolized by the pizza covering on the cover).
December 5, 2018
Brian, a pizza delivery guy, gets mixed up with Dr. Rayburn, a female sex symbol physicist. They keep meeting in racy time travel sequences, and along the way, Brian makes deliveries to customers that turn out to be tongue-and-cheek variations of monsters from horror B-movies, providing a creature feature obstacle course along the way.
The reading is easy but the pace suffers from chit chat that stalls the joyride, rather than speed it up. The time travel sequences between Brian and Dr. Rayburn get murky at times, and the monsters seem to exist for cameo appearance sake, rather than drive the plot forward. I could do without "The Ghost in the Locker Room" chapter, and anything to do with Brian's porn collection. The tone here veers a little too far from camp comedy.
Overall, I enjoyed the author's wacky sense of humor, and there's plenty of it. I think the basic plot idea is worth re-visiting and tightening up. With a really good polish, I could see something like this adapted for a cable movie streaming service.
The reading is easy but the pace suffers from chit chat that stalls the joyride, rather than speed it up. The time travel sequences between Brian and Dr. Rayburn get murky at times, and the monsters seem to exist for cameo appearance sake, rather than drive the plot forward. I could do without "The Ghost in the Locker Room" chapter, and anything to do with Brian's porn collection. The tone here veers a little too far from camp comedy.
Overall, I enjoyed the author's wacky sense of humor, and there's plenty of it. I think the basic plot idea is worth re-visiting and tightening up. With a really good polish, I could see something like this adapted for a cable movie streaming service.
November 20, 2018
'An Extra Topping of Horror' is a B-horror movie written out in novel form. Brian is a pizza-delivery man who does not let aliens, demons, etc, faze him and teams up with a time-traveling physicists through countless adventures that are extremely reminiscent of pop-culture and horror movies from the past.
The novel is comical with its extreme satire and you can't help but chuckling at every page. The characters are believable and the author makes you change your opinion on them multiple times in the read. More world-building, and maybe tweaking some stories to make it more original would benefit this story.
But all in all, a fun satirical scare-fest.
The novel is comical with its extreme satire and you can't help but chuckling at every page. The characters are believable and the author makes you change your opinion on them multiple times in the read. More world-building, and maybe tweaking some stories to make it more original would benefit this story.
But all in all, a fun satirical scare-fest.
February 12, 2019
If I had to sum up this book in one word it would be ‘madcap.’ The structure has the scatological feel of jazz singing that is perfectly in tune with the chaotic nature of the book and its subject, which deals with chaotic time travel. The author has cleverly interwoven different timelines for each of his main characters into an intriguing story, and pushed the boundaries of what we expect from a novel.
At times the disorder, and perception of unreality mixed with realism, reminded me of Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ a book I loved. This book has some witty observations regarding present-day life and movies and an atmosphere of the absurd as strange things keep happening to the main character, Brian, who tries to cope with the madness going on around him, but in a laid-back manner that I found endearing.
Brian is a delivery driver (‘Not a pizza boy’ as he indignantly informs us) for a small firm called Pizza Joint and his deliveries are anything but routine as he meets a frightening array of odd people from vampires who love wearing make-up to zombies to ogres. One line that really made me laugh, when talking about the work of an ogre, was this one: ‘This used to be considered troll work but they’re all busy on the internet.’
While Brian is trying to remain stoical about the craziness in his life, he gets more of it in the shape of Amanda, a time-traveller and physicist who keeps popping up at the most awkward moments while she researches the nature of time, separating it into Good Time (of linear nature) and Bad Time (chaotic). Her aim is to stop herself from time-travelling randomly.
The author takes us on a pleasantly humorous romp in this book. The only thing I would point out is that the book needs a copy edit. Numerous missing commas or full stops; capital letters in the wrong places; wrongly used words such as tenet/tenant, past/passed, your/you’re, champaign/champagne, conjuncture/conjecture, interfere with the enjoyment of reading, which is a shame because this is basically a good book and a fun read. Those problems can be fixed and it would be worthwhile doing so.
At times the disorder, and perception of unreality mixed with realism, reminded me of Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ a book I loved. This book has some witty observations regarding present-day life and movies and an atmosphere of the absurd as strange things keep happening to the main character, Brian, who tries to cope with the madness going on around him, but in a laid-back manner that I found endearing.
Brian is a delivery driver (‘Not a pizza boy’ as he indignantly informs us) for a small firm called Pizza Joint and his deliveries are anything but routine as he meets a frightening array of odd people from vampires who love wearing make-up to zombies to ogres. One line that really made me laugh, when talking about the work of an ogre, was this one: ‘This used to be considered troll work but they’re all busy on the internet.’
While Brian is trying to remain stoical about the craziness in his life, he gets more of it in the shape of Amanda, a time-traveller and physicist who keeps popping up at the most awkward moments while she researches the nature of time, separating it into Good Time (of linear nature) and Bad Time (chaotic). Her aim is to stop herself from time-travelling randomly.
The author takes us on a pleasantly humorous romp in this book. The only thing I would point out is that the book needs a copy edit. Numerous missing commas or full stops; capital letters in the wrong places; wrongly used words such as tenet/tenant, past/passed, your/you’re, champaign/champagne, conjuncture/conjecture, interfere with the enjoyment of reading, which is a shame because this is basically a good book and a fun read. Those problems can be fixed and it would be worthwhile doing so.
December 31, 2018
More Camp than the Scouts World Jamboree
Darryl B. Nelson’s An Extra Slice of Horror had me laughing out loud. “You ordered pizza? To be delivered during our Black Sacrifice?” The Dark Priest asked. “I thought we were going to start earlier,” Bob defended himself, “I figured Sacrifice, then Pizza, then the Blood Orgy.”
“Quick everyone to the Astro-Van of Evil.” —- see what I mean?
Meet Brian. He is a down on his luck former real estate entrepreneur who is addicted to porn. After having lost everything delivers pizza for a living.
One day, while making his deliveries, he meets a disoriented, naked woman in the middle of the street. Her name is Amanda, a time-traveling physicist. Beauty and brains. What else could a guy want?
The charm of this book is in its delightful sense of weird. It reminded me of the old X-Files episodes when directed by Darin Martin. Who else could bring to life aliens bent on world domination, and a superior quality pizza?
Slice does have some sexual content, and yes, there’s the porn thing I mentioned previously, but I consider it little more than extra cheese.
I have two negative comments. First is the cover is dreadful. The work deserves something far better. Secondly, when Amanda makes an unexpected jump for this reader there was nothing at all unexpected. The timing seemed predictable and became boring after five or six times.
All in all, I recommend it! It is witty fun, and downright entertaining. Grab a beer and a slice. Enjoy!
Darryl B. Nelson’s An Extra Slice of Horror had me laughing out loud. “You ordered pizza? To be delivered during our Black Sacrifice?” The Dark Priest asked. “I thought we were going to start earlier,” Bob defended himself, “I figured Sacrifice, then Pizza, then the Blood Orgy.”
“Quick everyone to the Astro-Van of Evil.” —- see what I mean?
Meet Brian. He is a down on his luck former real estate entrepreneur who is addicted to porn. After having lost everything delivers pizza for a living.
One day, while making his deliveries, he meets a disoriented, naked woman in the middle of the street. Her name is Amanda, a time-traveling physicist. Beauty and brains. What else could a guy want?
The charm of this book is in its delightful sense of weird. It reminded me of the old X-Files episodes when directed by Darin Martin. Who else could bring to life aliens bent on world domination, and a superior quality pizza?
Slice does have some sexual content, and yes, there’s the porn thing I mentioned previously, but I consider it little more than extra cheese.
I have two negative comments. First is the cover is dreadful. The work deserves something far better. Secondly, when Amanda makes an unexpected jump for this reader there was nothing at all unexpected. The timing seemed predictable and became boring after five or six times.
All in all, I recommend it! It is witty fun, and downright entertaining. Grab a beer and a slice. Enjoy!
November 23, 2018
Other people liked it.
Maybe it is just me but I couldn't get on with this book. Schoolboy humour and it was difficult to keep up with the story. Parts of the book were quite clever, and other parts the opposite. There was a constant reference to panties, porn and a giggling semi-naked scientist popping up. As a woman, this book made me feel distinctly uncomfortable more than once.
Maybe it is just me but I couldn't get on with this book. Schoolboy humour and it was difficult to keep up with the story. Parts of the book were quite clever, and other parts the opposite. There was a constant reference to panties, porn and a giggling semi-naked scientist popping up. As a woman, this book made me feel distinctly uncomfortable more than once.
August 29, 2018
Overall
I loved Brian. At first I thought he was an idiot but the author does such a great job rounding him out and showing him to be more complex that he was quite endearing by the end. Amanda was a great balance for him and I appreciated the approach the author took with her - making her the brilliant one. At first it feels like a series of anthologies, pizza stories with an arc of Dr. Rayburn's travel. However, by the end you'll find out there is more going on (it isn't exactly subtle if you pay attention).
The world building needed a little bit of work but the generally sudden arrival of another character/theme was a constant plot device. Many times to the books benefit. Many times to incite laughter. Not always applied the best way. There was at least one overly shocking scene that was completely unnecessary. It was gross and way over the top. I actually put the book down. It doesn't matter that it was fixed later - the damage was done. It was just so incongruous with the mostly fluffy feel of the book, that it never recovered.
The writing was mostly easy to follow and only lulled in a few areas.It was a bonus but also a let down at the 'borrowing' from well known horror stories. Especially since the story relied on them too much at times. Despite that it was FUNNY! So many hilarious b-movie feel scenes that actually hit home (and I hate dumb humor normally) so that was a real surprise. It is for sure for people who love funny horror with a romance and sci-fi pieces thrown in.
Rating
3.5 stars (rounded down)
I really loved so many aspects of this book but there were just enough downsides to give it a solid 4 stars (which with a few tweeks it would deserve). Despite a few downsides - it was an amusing book and if you love b-rated horror movies this is a must read! It just wasn't for me.
PS to the author - get a formatter and a new cover - this book deserves it!
Where did I get it?
I received a copy from the author. This is a voluntary review.
I loved Brian. At first I thought he was an idiot but the author does such a great job rounding him out and showing him to be more complex that he was quite endearing by the end. Amanda was a great balance for him and I appreciated the approach the author took with her - making her the brilliant one. At first it feels like a series of anthologies, pizza stories with an arc of Dr. Rayburn's travel. However, by the end you'll find out there is more going on (it isn't exactly subtle if you pay attention).
The world building needed a little bit of work but the generally sudden arrival of another character/theme was a constant plot device. Many times to the books benefit. Many times to incite laughter. Not always applied the best way. There was at least one overly shocking scene that was completely unnecessary. It was gross and way over the top. I actually put the book down. It doesn't matter that it was fixed later - the damage was done. It was just so incongruous with the mostly fluffy feel of the book, that it never recovered.
The writing was mostly easy to follow and only lulled in a few areas.It was a bonus but also a let down at the 'borrowing' from well known horror stories. Especially since the story relied on them too much at times. Despite that it was FUNNY! So many hilarious b-movie feel scenes that actually hit home (and I hate dumb humor normally) so that was a real surprise. It is for sure for people who love funny horror with a romance and sci-fi pieces thrown in.
Rating
3.5 stars (rounded down)
I really loved so many aspects of this book but there were just enough downsides to give it a solid 4 stars (which with a few tweeks it would deserve). Despite a few downsides - it was an amusing book and if you love b-rated horror movies this is a must read! It just wasn't for me.
PS to the author - get a formatter and a new cover - this book deserves it!
Where did I get it?
I received a copy from the author. This is a voluntary review.
May 9, 2018
Darrell takes us on an adventure as we follow Brian, a strangely abnormal normal man, and Amanda, a time traveling physicist, as they try and rescue the world from a possible alien take over, while dealing with the anything but ordinary.
I understand the idea behind the book, as it’s a spoof on a lot of classic horror and some pop culture references, but for me, it just was too much. Every chapter was something different and as it was all combined in the end, I found it very hard to stay with the book. For me, if you take the story line of Brian and Amanda, and her time traveling, out, and wrote about them only, I’d of enjoyed it more.
The constant need to reference porn, every few pages, really grated on my nevus. It wasn’t relevant, or needed, and just drew me further away from the book. Plus, there was a situation that involved minors and adults that was sorta brushed off as something that was just done and forgiven, really bothered me.
I give this book 3 stars because it was written well, the dialogue was good, and the settings were written well. Darrell is an imaginative writer and does well explaining what he wants to portray in his books. The overall theme of the book, for me personally, was a huge jumbled mess and I could never really get fully into the story line.
If you like spoofs of classic horrors and pop culture, give this book a try.
I understand the idea behind the book, as it’s a spoof on a lot of classic horror and some pop culture references, but for me, it just was too much. Every chapter was something different and as it was all combined in the end, I found it very hard to stay with the book. For me, if you take the story line of Brian and Amanda, and her time traveling, out, and wrote about them only, I’d of enjoyed it more.
The constant need to reference porn, every few pages, really grated on my nevus. It wasn’t relevant, or needed, and just drew me further away from the book. Plus, there was a situation that involved minors and adults that was sorta brushed off as something that was just done and forgiven, really bothered me.
I give this book 3 stars because it was written well, the dialogue was good, and the settings were written well. Darrell is an imaginative writer and does well explaining what he wants to portray in his books. The overall theme of the book, for me personally, was a huge jumbled mess and I could never really get fully into the story line.
If you like spoofs of classic horrors and pop culture, give this book a try.
October 7, 2018
Eye catching Title.
It was an interesting read from the start and seemed to build up gradually. But, as the events unfolded, the plot seemed to jump around a bit and lost me a few times. However, the humour had me chuckling a fair bit.
It was an interesting read from the start and seemed to build up gradually. But, as the events unfolded, the plot seemed to jump around a bit and lost me a few times. However, the humour had me chuckling a fair bit.
Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews