The Weird World of Mark McLaughlin MEGAPACK®: 28 Stories By a Master of the Macabre

by Mark McLaughlin

Kindle: 347 pages for only 99 cents. Start reading today.

National publisher Wildside Press releases landmark MEGAPACK® story collections by top horror, science-fiction and fantasy authors. Award-winning writers who they’ve selected for the MEGAPACK series include Marion Zimmer Bradley, Robert Silverberg, Fredric Brown, R.A. Lafferty, Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, and Bram Stoker.

The introduction from the publisher:
Who is this Mark McLaughlin person, and why should you read him? Mark--whom I've had the pleasure of publishing for nearly 20 years now--is one of those unique voices in the horror field. He doesn't tread the safe (or even sane!) path, but goes off in quirky directions, and he's happy to have company along the way. And while he's poking around the oddest places, he finds humor in the outrageous and the unsettling. Vampires? Of course. Zombies? Definitely. But these are never quite the monsters you're expecting. Don't take my word for it. Here are some other opinions:

"In the most devious manner, McLaughlin's stories achieve a high degree of demonism by perpetuating a sinister 'humor' at the gallows of the human comedy." (Thomas Ligotti)

"Listen up. Noel Coward is back. Salvador Dali is back. Dylan Thomas is back. And they're all rolled into one in the shape of Mark McLaughlin who writes stories that are wonderfully witty, surrealistic and ineffably strange. Absolutely fabulous.... If your palette is jaded, come to the feast that is Mark McLaughlin." (Simon Clark)

"McLaughlin's tales are laugh-out-loud assaults on consensus reality." (Paul Di Filippo, ASIMOV'S)

"Reading Mark McLaughlin is a little like stepping out of the door of an airplane in mid flight. The view is pretty amazing, but the shock of impact may do you in...gruesome, funny and touching. Top that: anybody...." (TANGENT)

So, dig in and enjoy these 28 tales by one of the modern masters of the macabre.

415 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 20, 2020

About the author

MARK McLAUGHLIN is a Stoker Award-winner whose many works include:
The Doomsday Thaw ..... Injectables
Crushed Velvet .... Embrace of the Internet Witch
The Weird World of Mark McLaughlin MEGAPACK®
The Wrath of Nyarlathotep ... Weird Worship
Horrors & Abominations .... Nightmares & Tentacles
Urban Monsters .... Dimension Of Monsters
The House Of The Ocelot & More Lovecraftian Nightmares
Human Doll: A Novel ... The Hell Next Door: A Novel
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Reviews

[Mark McLaughlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Complete transparency here: I'm the author, and I'm giving the project five stars because it's the longest collection of my work ever published. The Kindle edition is a good deal, in my humble opinion -- 347 pages for only 99 cents. :-)

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A spectacular set of tales from an author I had not read before this. In actuality, it surprised me how quickly these stories went by (I read on a Kindle) and when I saw the end of the book come up after finishing a story, it was both shocking and dismaying. I didn't want it to be done! Some stories were better for me than others, but overall, I highly recommend this collection!

[Michael Hill · Rating 4 out of 5]

It has good and not so good stories in the short story collection but set at a price which is a bargain. It is not gory horror and not really suspenseful. It is unusal stories and sometimes along the lines of Lovecraft and as the title says, often weird. It was not really my cup of hemlock but others may like it.