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TARANTULEECHEN
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Written in 2013, this 19,000 word novella takes place in an imaginary rural area known as "Hatchet County" and involves a cheerleader punk band, "The Skull Girls," who, during the recording of their latest album at the house of a mysterious old man, end up battling an evil creature called, TARANTULEECHEN, a gross being who had been summoned from beyond by the house's owner before his untimely and gory passing.
The girls are joined by Sheriff Hills and his sidekick, Ron. Together, these two Hatchet County lawmen team up with "The Skull Girls" to battle the evil creature before it threatens to destroy the world.
There is also a sub-plot, that involves a masked stranger who follows our heroes and is revealed to have a close, and deadly, connection to the entire story.
This is a B-movie/exploitation novella in the vein of 1980s and '90s B-movies and, in particular, the output of New Horizons Pictures (i.e. Roger Corman) with a focus on the grotesque and the literary like a mixture between Georges Bataille, Robert Coover, and Heavy Metal magazine. Written with the same "cinematic" sharpness as The Mondo Vixen Massacre, this novella will appeal to fans of exploitation cinema, Bizarro, horror, comedy, and weird fiction. It would also make a great film and/or comic book.
Written in 2013, this 19,000 word novella takes place in an imaginary rural area known as "Hatchet County" and involves a cheerleader punk band, "The Skull Girls," who, during the recording of their latest album at the house of a mysterious old man, end up battling an evil creature called, TARANTULEECHEN, a gross being who had been summoned from beyond by the house's owner before his untimely and gory passing.
The girls are joined by Sheriff Hills and his sidekick, Ron. Together, these two Hatchet County lawmen team up with "The Skull Girls" to battle the evil creature before it threatens to destroy the world.
There is also a sub-plot, that involves a masked stranger who follows our heroes and is revealed to have a close, and deadly, connection to the entire story.
This is a B-movie/exploitation novella in the vein of 1980s and '90s B-movies and, in particular, the output of New Horizons Pictures (i.e. Roger Corman) with a focus on the grotesque and the literary like a mixture between Georges Bataille, Robert Coover, and Heavy Metal magazine. Written with the same "cinematic" sharpness as The Mondo Vixen Massacre, this novella will appeal to fans of exploitation cinema, Bizarro, horror, comedy, and weird fiction. It would also make a great film and/or comic book.
55 pages, ebook
First published December 21, 2014
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About the author
Jamie Grefe
18 books61 followersGrefe is the author of THE MONDO VIXEN MASSACRE (Eraserhead Press), CANNIBAL FATALES (Dynatox Ministries), and MUTAGON II (Dynatox Ministries). Short stories, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in such venues as Birkensnake, elimae, New Dead Families, The Bacon Review, Sein und Werden, Counterexample Poetics, Pulp Metal Magazine, LIES/ISLE, Untoward Magazine and Gone Lawn.
Besides writing, Grefe has performed noise/experimental music alongside such acts as Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Magical Power Mako, Yan Jun, and Violent Onsen Geisha.
Besides writing, Grefe has performed noise/experimental music alongside such acts as Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Magical Power Mako, Yan Jun, and Violent Onsen Geisha.
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June 15, 2018
This creature feature is presented in the lurid, no holds barred style of a B horror movie. I was thoroughly entertained from beginning to end. I laughed, I cried, and I threw up a little in my mouth. This book has some killer lines. My favorite: "Amen to cannibalism," closely followed by "A coyote howls in his stomach and somewhere out there, too." Yes, consumption is involved. "Sometimes life's a bitch. Sometimes it's a feast." Aptly put. If you like monsters, madmen, lots of gore and punk rock, look no further. This gem is available for FREE right here: http://jamiegrefe.com/tarantuleechen
August 3, 2020
Vastly entertaining novella that reads as if an excitable pitch has got out of hand and steamrolls
into a full on rendition of the entire movie, with everyone listening either hyped up on the gloriously pumped enthusiasm of the tweaked screenplay style or trapped by the instant fix of day-glo 80s/90s cinema punk aesthetic rammed with small town hyper terrorvision. A creature is featured! A dolly mixture of sassy filthmeisters called The Skull Girls punk up to the type of backwoods town that has a gas station, a sheriff, and a dark stalking presence just waiting for a big reveal. Amid the promise of bloody carnage and practical effect grossness to come, the girls twirl as many one-liners as drum sticks. All is wildly familiar, with Grefe gleefully thieving the best trash horror aesthetics that will satisfy any nostalgia junkie or gore groupie. Fun to the max.
into a full on rendition of the entire movie, with everyone listening either hyped up on the gloriously pumped enthusiasm of the tweaked screenplay style or trapped by the instant fix of day-glo 80s/90s cinema punk aesthetic rammed with small town hyper terrorvision. A creature is featured! A dolly mixture of sassy filthmeisters called The Skull Girls punk up to the type of backwoods town that has a gas station, a sheriff, and a dark stalking presence just waiting for a big reveal. Amid the promise of bloody carnage and practical effect grossness to come, the girls twirl as many one-liners as drum sticks. All is wildly familiar, with Grefe gleefully thieving the best trash horror aesthetics that will satisfy any nostalgia junkie or gore groupie. Fun to the max.
January 13, 2015
A hell of a good time, this is my favorite book so far from Grefe.
The cinematic quality that is there in "Mondo Vixen Massacre" and it's companion books is executed well in Tarantuleechen as well.
The "beast" was nasty in an otherworldly way. The Skull Girls, along with the other characters who are forced to battle this beast are fun and memorable. The methods they use in their attempts to annihilate the beast are unique to say the least, and part of the reason that this stood out for me. A great mix of punk rock, B movie gore, and humor. Many thanks to the author for offering this one at no cost.
The cinematic quality that is there in "Mondo Vixen Massacre" and it's companion books is executed well in Tarantuleechen as well.
The "beast" was nasty in an otherworldly way. The Skull Girls, along with the other characters who are forced to battle this beast are fun and memorable. The methods they use in their attempts to annihilate the beast are unique to say the least, and part of the reason that this stood out for me. A great mix of punk rock, B movie gore, and humor. Many thanks to the author for offering this one at no cost.
December 7, 2025
the prose holds you captive like a furry tentacle
would love to visit Michigan sometime
would love to visit Michigan sometime
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