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Bigfoot Death Squad and Eight Other Stories
Once they were heroes of the Great War. Now they’re derelicts on the cold streets of Denver, forgotten souls in a country ravaged by the Great Depression.
Word’s out on the President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Adminstration is hiring for a project somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The bums come from miles around, looking for a job.
They think they’ll be digging ditches and paving roads...until they’re handed rifles.
Now they’re a part of a secret war that has gone on for generations. Now they’re the BIGFOOT DEATH SQUAD.
In these ten terrifying tales of the so-called ordinary world, EDDIE MULNIX transports the reader to a world as strange as it is familiar—an unsettling landscape of ghostly occurrences, speed-dealing superheroes, strip-club stickups, and more.
Contains some graphic violence and strong language.
Word’s out on the President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Adminstration is hiring for a project somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The bums come from miles around, looking for a job.
They think they’ll be digging ditches and paving roads...until they’re handed rifles.
Now they’re a part of a secret war that has gone on for generations. Now they’re the BIGFOOT DEATH SQUAD.
In these ten terrifying tales of the so-called ordinary world, EDDIE MULNIX transports the reader to a world as strange as it is familiar—an unsettling landscape of ghostly occurrences, speed-dealing superheroes, strip-club stickups, and more.
Contains some graphic violence and strong language.
155 pages, ebook
Published January 22, 2019
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Eddie Mulnix
8 booksEddie Mulnix grew up in South Texas and has worked as a line cook, delivery driver, porno shop janitor, and teacher. His fiction blends dark humor, crime, and horror to explore the stranger side of American life. He lives in Los Angeles.
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September 15, 2020
I was lucky enough to snag a Kindle copy of this book while it was still available on Amazon. I'm not sure why it seems to have vanished, but at least I was able to read it while I had the chance. And I have to admit, the short stories in this collection are well-written and immensely creative. However, they make for some grim reading... and the author's love of gore can get a little gross after awhile.
There's a variety of stories in this collection, but most of them fall under the "horror" category in some aspect. From a woman who literally turns alcohol to water when she drinks it, to a ghost who can't seem to accept the fact that he's really dead, to a drug cartel that keeps a werewolf locked in its cellar, to the titular squad of recruited tramps and hobos who's charged with clearing the Rockies of Sasquatch, there's a variety of ideas here, any of which could have been fleshed out into a full-length novel. And the writing is decent, even good, though the author does have a tendency to drift into odd tangents at times.
Where the author falls short is in making the books at all enjoyable. Everyone is a scumbag in these books, even supposedly sympathetic characters, and the world he depicts is grungy, corrupt, and awful. Perhaps that's the reality of the world he's chosen to focus on -- a world of drug addicts, derelicts, and plain unlikable people -- but honestly if your book is nothing but darkness and gloom, it makes it hard to care about what's going on or get an iota of enjoyment out of it. To quote Joss Whedon, "make it dark, make it grim, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke." It doesn't have to be constant laughs, but a single glimmer of light would help.
Also, female characters are pretty much treated as objects in this book, something to be lusted over or treated like baggage. Even the one story with a female character has her objectified and used as a major plot point. And the treatment of gays and Hispanics is also both stereotypical and uncomfortable.
This book is definitely grim and not for all tastes, but I have to admire the author's creative genius. If you can get your hands on a copy of this (hopefully it'll be available in the Kindle store again at some point), be prepared for some uncomfortable and shocking content... but also prepare for some creepy but fascinating stories.
There's a variety of stories in this collection, but most of them fall under the "horror" category in some aspect. From a woman who literally turns alcohol to water when she drinks it, to a ghost who can't seem to accept the fact that he's really dead, to a drug cartel that keeps a werewolf locked in its cellar, to the titular squad of recruited tramps and hobos who's charged with clearing the Rockies of Sasquatch, there's a variety of ideas here, any of which could have been fleshed out into a full-length novel. And the writing is decent, even good, though the author does have a tendency to drift into odd tangents at times.
Where the author falls short is in making the books at all enjoyable. Everyone is a scumbag in these books, even supposedly sympathetic characters, and the world he depicts is grungy, corrupt, and awful. Perhaps that's the reality of the world he's chosen to focus on -- a world of drug addicts, derelicts, and plain unlikable people -- but honestly if your book is nothing but darkness and gloom, it makes it hard to care about what's going on or get an iota of enjoyment out of it. To quote Joss Whedon, "make it dark, make it grim, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke." It doesn't have to be constant laughs, but a single glimmer of light would help.
Also, female characters are pretty much treated as objects in this book, something to be lusted over or treated like baggage. Even the one story with a female character has her objectified and used as a major plot point. And the treatment of gays and Hispanics is also both stereotypical and uncomfortable.
This book is definitely grim and not for all tastes, but I have to admire the author's creative genius. If you can get your hands on a copy of this (hopefully it'll be available in the Kindle store again at some point), be prepared for some uncomfortable and shocking content... but also prepare for some creepy but fascinating stories.
February 14, 2019
Deliciously dark collection of short horror stories, all with a twist. Best read at night, whilst the wind and rain rage outside, with the doors locked, the shutters barred and a fire blazing in the dark. It's not only Santa that can get in through the chimney.
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