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Friday Night Massacre
Night of the Demons meets Olympus Has Fallen in this satirical gorefest of White House horror!
After succumbing to a deadly virus and incurring the wrath of voters in the 2020 election, the president of the United States makes a deathbed deal with the devil.
Imbued with supernatural power, President Tyler Coleridge refuses to surrender office after being defeated by his rival candidate and rings in the new year with a White House bloodbath.
After Coleridge turns against the press and his own Secret Service detail in a violent display of savagery, it’s up to the lone survivor of the president’s protective detail, Mike Hutchinson, to put a stop to Coleridge’s reign of madness before the nation is utterly crippled.
Inspired by the events of 2020, Friday Night Massacre is a splatterpunk horror action novel in the grindhouse fashion, with a dash of comic book sensibility.
Friday Night Massacre contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels.
After succumbing to a deadly virus and incurring the wrath of voters in the 2020 election, the president of the United States makes a deathbed deal with the devil.
Imbued with supernatural power, President Tyler Coleridge refuses to surrender office after being defeated by his rival candidate and rings in the new year with a White House bloodbath.
After Coleridge turns against the press and his own Secret Service detail in a violent display of savagery, it’s up to the lone survivor of the president’s protective detail, Mike Hutchinson, to put a stop to Coleridge’s reign of madness before the nation is utterly crippled.
Inspired by the events of 2020, Friday Night Massacre is a splatterpunk horror action novel in the grindhouse fashion, with a dash of comic book sensibility.
Friday Night Massacre contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels.
210 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 1, 2021
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About the author
Michael Patrick Hicks
38 books506 followersMichael Patrick Hicks is the author of several horror books, including the Salem Hawley series and Friday Night Massacre. His debut novel, Convergence, was an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Finalist in science fiction, and his short stories have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies.
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You can find Michael’s books on Amazon in print, ebook, and audiobook at http://viewauthor.at/MichaelPatrickHicks.
Connect with Michael at:
Website: http://michaelpatrickhicks.com
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February 3, 2021
Cathartic.
That’s what I truly got from reading Michael Patrick Hicks latest ‘Friday Night Massacre.’
Hicks must have been laughing maniacally while sobbing hysterically while writing this. Or at least that’s what I pictured reading this. Having been friends with and followed Michael for a number of years now, he’s never once been shy about his disgust over the direction the United States has taken since electing Trump back in 2016.
As well, Hicks is no stranger to writing political based fiction. See both ‘Revolver’ and to various levels, his Salem Hawley Series. Additionally, Hicks is one of the supreme rulers of delivering unsettling, gore-filled bursts of violence. There are very few out there who’ll describe stuff so vividly that you feel repulsed that you just read it, but even more repulsed that it fit so well with the story. Don’t believe me? Ask anyone who has read book two of the Salem Hawley Series what they think of when you say the word eggs.
I am going to caveat the rest of this review by stating two things.
First. I’m not American. I’m Canadian through and through (and not from the UK as many people seem to have believed). As such it’s an interesting piece of writing to read when you’re detached from the news flow when you live on the ground in that country.
Second. I’ve always been completely shocked that Trump was elected and that time and time again the powers that be have allowed things to just seemingly slip by. I’m not going to go into great details about all of Trumps exploits, I simply don’t have the time, but history will not look kindly on the last four years.
I am truly and completely done with hearing and dealing with Trump stuff. Even living in a neighboring country, so at times this book was a tough go.
What I liked: ‘Friday Night Massacre’ can be split into two distinct stories. Which is what I had to do to really enjoy how it played out. The first plot line is following Secret Service as they struggle to contain an incident involving the President and the First Family in the White House. The second plot line is more of a non-fiction told through fiction narrative where Hicks gets to really share his incredulity over just who has been president for the past four years. We get a decent replay of all of the completely insane moments that have occurred and we get to see the rising up of White Extremist Terrorist groups following the orders from their Commander-in-Chief.
The Secret Service section was fantastic. We get to see how Agent Hutchinson tries to rationally assess and subdue the unexpected event and how he works hard to push aside the more strange and complicated part of what is happening to follow his training and his superiors orders. Now, I know this last sentence is a bit odd, but I need to stay spoiler free. I went in knowing very little about the actual incident that has occurred and I think it’d serve you well to try and take the same approach.
Throughout this, Hicks has really done his due diligence in researching the Secret Service ways and as always his afterword shared some really invaluable resources. I’ve found with every Hicks book you’ll end up wanting to do a deeper dive online after purely from the links he provides.
As I mentioned before, the gore and violence in this are over the top. A press conference at the beginning really sets the table for the fact that nothing is off limits and I suspect if you get through that part unscathed, you’ll be willing to take every single body part that Hicks throws at the reader from then on.
What I didn’t like: Ok, Ok, well this isn’t specifically ‘Trump’ as the President, there is not mistake that Hicks based this abomination off of that figure. Because of this, I really didn’t enjoy the “look back” sections where a character would remember all of the hideous and despicable things that the President had done during his election bid and then during his presidency. I’m 100% completely over anything to do with that family, I actually have been since he referred to another Congresswoman as Pocahontas and mocked a disabled person, but there are some longer sections here where events are noted and cataloged and it did become a bit much.
Why you should buy this: Well, if you are an individual who needs a cathartic read where some of your unspoken fantasy punishments can be realized in the fictional world, look no further. Like I said, Hicks treatment of the Secret Service in this was fantastic and I wish he would’ve set this in a 100% completely fabricated world where I wasn’t connecting the orange President with the orange President. With the precision, military-like care Hicks takes to move this story along, it is a very fast read and one that has a ton of action and viciousness in it, which definitely elevated the story. In a way this reads as a bit of a spiritual sequel to ‘Revolver’ and if you loved that novella then you’ll dig this one.
Rating this for me is tough. I’d honestly go with a 1 star purely for the annoyance of the president character, but that’s not fair to the story or Michael. For a visceral reaction and angry response towards this group of characters, which is what I think Hicks was hoping to evoke, then this is an easy 5 star review.
Overall, this is going to hit each and every reader individually. Michael is used to having slanderous reviews where people call him all sorts of names for his beliefs. I’m not going to ever be one of those reviewers, but I will say Hicks will easily enrage readers here. And as that is some of what he was hoping to do with this, well, he’s knocked this one out of the park.
That’s what I truly got from reading Michael Patrick Hicks latest ‘Friday Night Massacre.’
Hicks must have been laughing maniacally while sobbing hysterically while writing this. Or at least that’s what I pictured reading this. Having been friends with and followed Michael for a number of years now, he’s never once been shy about his disgust over the direction the United States has taken since electing Trump back in 2016.
As well, Hicks is no stranger to writing political based fiction. See both ‘Revolver’ and to various levels, his Salem Hawley Series. Additionally, Hicks is one of the supreme rulers of delivering unsettling, gore-filled bursts of violence. There are very few out there who’ll describe stuff so vividly that you feel repulsed that you just read it, but even more repulsed that it fit so well with the story. Don’t believe me? Ask anyone who has read book two of the Salem Hawley Series what they think of when you say the word eggs.
I am going to caveat the rest of this review by stating two things.
First. I’m not American. I’m Canadian through and through (and not from the UK as many people seem to have believed). As such it’s an interesting piece of writing to read when you’re detached from the news flow when you live on the ground in that country.
Second. I’ve always been completely shocked that Trump was elected and that time and time again the powers that be have allowed things to just seemingly slip by. I’m not going to go into great details about all of Trumps exploits, I simply don’t have the time, but history will not look kindly on the last four years.
I am truly and completely done with hearing and dealing with Trump stuff. Even living in a neighboring country, so at times this book was a tough go.
What I liked: ‘Friday Night Massacre’ can be split into two distinct stories. Which is what I had to do to really enjoy how it played out. The first plot line is following Secret Service as they struggle to contain an incident involving the President and the First Family in the White House. The second plot line is more of a non-fiction told through fiction narrative where Hicks gets to really share his incredulity over just who has been president for the past four years. We get a decent replay of all of the completely insane moments that have occurred and we get to see the rising up of White Extremist Terrorist groups following the orders from their Commander-in-Chief.
The Secret Service section was fantastic. We get to see how Agent Hutchinson tries to rationally assess and subdue the unexpected event and how he works hard to push aside the more strange and complicated part of what is happening to follow his training and his superiors orders. Now, I know this last sentence is a bit odd, but I need to stay spoiler free. I went in knowing very little about the actual incident that has occurred and I think it’d serve you well to try and take the same approach.
Throughout this, Hicks has really done his due diligence in researching the Secret Service ways and as always his afterword shared some really invaluable resources. I’ve found with every Hicks book you’ll end up wanting to do a deeper dive online after purely from the links he provides.
As I mentioned before, the gore and violence in this are over the top. A press conference at the beginning really sets the table for the fact that nothing is off limits and I suspect if you get through that part unscathed, you’ll be willing to take every single body part that Hicks throws at the reader from then on.
What I didn’t like: Ok, Ok, well this isn’t specifically ‘Trump’ as the President, there is not mistake that Hicks based this abomination off of that figure. Because of this, I really didn’t enjoy the “look back” sections where a character would remember all of the hideous and despicable things that the President had done during his election bid and then during his presidency. I’m 100% completely over anything to do with that family, I actually have been since he referred to another Congresswoman as Pocahontas and mocked a disabled person, but there are some longer sections here where events are noted and cataloged and it did become a bit much.
Why you should buy this: Well, if you are an individual who needs a cathartic read where some of your unspoken fantasy punishments can be realized in the fictional world, look no further. Like I said, Hicks treatment of the Secret Service in this was fantastic and I wish he would’ve set this in a 100% completely fabricated world where I wasn’t connecting the orange President with the orange President. With the precision, military-like care Hicks takes to move this story along, it is a very fast read and one that has a ton of action and viciousness in it, which definitely elevated the story. In a way this reads as a bit of a spiritual sequel to ‘Revolver’ and if you loved that novella then you’ll dig this one.
Rating this for me is tough. I’d honestly go with a 1 star purely for the annoyance of the president character, but that’s not fair to the story or Michael. For a visceral reaction and angry response towards this group of characters, which is what I think Hicks was hoping to evoke, then this is an easy 5 star review.
Overall, this is going to hit each and every reader individually. Michael is used to having slanderous reviews where people call him all sorts of names for his beliefs. I’m not going to ever be one of those reviewers, but I will say Hicks will easily enrage readers here. And as that is some of what he was hoping to do with this, well, he’s knocked this one out of the park.
September 12, 2021
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June 27, 2021
Now first I am sure I wrote a review of this crazy, insane, bloody, disturbing and oddly funny book. As I’ve lost reviews on GR before this is a re-write of a previous review.
The President of the USA is dying of COVID. Once he passes, him and his evil first family raise an ancient ritual to bring him back. What happens next is a massacre of epic proportions.
It’s up to a reluctant secret service agent to quell the chaos.
But note MPH also puts a human side of empathy in all his stories. Sign of a true master of the genre.
Gory and fun ride! Teetering on shock horror for the buckets of blood and entrails, you’ve been warned.
If that doesn’t bother you then you are in for an awesome read, enjoy!
The President of the USA is dying of COVID. Once he passes, him and his evil first family raise an ancient ritual to bring him back. What happens next is a massacre of epic proportions.
It’s up to a reluctant secret service agent to quell the chaos.
But note MPH also puts a human side of empathy in all his stories. Sign of a true master of the genre.
Gory and fun ride! Teetering on shock horror for the buckets of blood and entrails, you’ve been warned.
If that doesn’t bother you then you are in for an awesome read, enjoy!
January 31, 2022
This was...( I don't know if I can find the correct words) Wild, crazy, fun, horror, parody, serious, it was for me, a little of everything and I mean that in the most complimentary way. It was very different but kind of believable too and I loved the plot and the characters.
I love finding a new author like this because now I know I can buy the rest of his books and enjoy them all. Excellent horror and although crazy, written in a way that if such a thing really happened, I would likely not be too surprised.
I love finding a new author like this because now I know I can buy the rest of his books and enjoy them all. Excellent horror and although crazy, written in a way that if such a thing really happened, I would likely not be too surprised.
November 7, 2024
Bleak, violent and unfortunately quite relevant.
April 18, 2021
I literally have no words to write the review for this book. Let me put it this way, if you’re American and hate Trump you’re probably gonna love this book. If you’re American and you’re a Trump supporter, well… you probably won’t. But hey, if you are the latter but you love a good horror story, there’s a chance you could. So, you should give it a try.
But if you don’t like gore, blood, rape, blood, demons, blood, incest, blood, dismembered bodies and have I mentioned blood yet? Well this is definitively NOT the book for you.
There are some “goverment” parts that were a Little boring for me, I think they could be a little shorter and the overall story wouldn’t be affected. Probably this whole Trump hate don’t affected me too much because of the fact that I’m Mexican. And if you look back in history all American presidents has treated Mexico like shit, so he was just one more. , I think this story disturbed me more because I couldn’t help to think that it was a “real” person I was reading about (yeah, even if that person is Trump) and the opening of the book didn’t helped either. The news format narrating a bunch of true events was sickening me cause it made me remeber the real facts.
Michael is a terrific writer but this book just wasn´t for me. This was just a Little too political for me. But the action scenes are definitively a blast to read. And I don’t care about gore or blood. But I did was very uncomfortable with an incest scene and mostly with a masturbation one, which I think they didn’t contribute anything to the story and are there just to shock people. Which they did at least with me. And I think that Michael knew that the reviews for this story were going to be very divided when he decided to publish this book. And that people is going to love it or hate it. No middle grounds (except for this poor mexican). So now its up to you to give it a chance and decide for yourself which side are you on. I know that at least I had a lot of fun being chased through the White House by a bunch of demons.
But if you don’t like gore, blood, rape, blood, demons, blood, incest, blood, dismembered bodies and have I mentioned blood yet? Well this is definitively NOT the book for you.
There are some “goverment” parts that were a Little boring for me, I think they could be a little shorter and the overall story wouldn’t be affected. Probably this whole Trump hate don’t affected me too much because of the fact that I’m Mexican. And if you look back in history all American presidents has treated Mexico like shit, so he was just one more. , I think this story disturbed me more because I couldn’t help to think that it was a “real” person I was reading about (yeah, even if that person is Trump) and the opening of the book didn’t helped either. The news format narrating a bunch of true events was sickening me cause it made me remeber the real facts.
Michael is a terrific writer but this book just wasn´t for me. This was just a Little too political for me. But the action scenes are definitively a blast to read. And I don’t care about gore or blood. But I did was very uncomfortable with an incest scene and mostly with a masturbation one, which I think they didn’t contribute anything to the story and are there just to shock people. Which they did at least with me. And I think that Michael knew that the reviews for this story were going to be very divided when he decided to publish this book. And that people is going to love it or hate it. No middle grounds (except for this poor mexican). So now its up to you to give it a chance and decide for yourself which side are you on. I know that at least I had a lot of fun being chased through the White House by a bunch of demons.
May 20, 2021
Friday Night Massacre by Michael Patrick Hicks is full of splattery goodness, there's humor and blood and it's good. There may be some points that you probably shouldn't laugh at, but due to the time that it was written in, it's hard not to. The pacing for me was perfect, balls to the wall and it never lets up. I fervently read every page, consuming every morsel. This was my first experience with Hicks's work, and after reading this I quickly picked up a few other titles.
It is clear that Hick's put in a lot of work on this novel, the research and information that he gathered made it that much more enjoyable. It was like watching a news story unfold before me. There were some elements that I did not expect, but when I reached the end, it was evident that they were completely necessary. My takeaway from this novel it, that as Americans a lot of us are on the same page, we needed a change before something nightmarish actually happened, and luckily Hick's was brave enough to actually pen this story.
It is clear that Hick's put in a lot of work on this novel, the research and information that he gathered made it that much more enjoyable. It was like watching a news story unfold before me. There were some elements that I did not expect, but when I reached the end, it was evident that they were completely necessary. My takeaway from this novel it, that as Americans a lot of us are on the same page, we needed a change before something nightmarish actually happened, and luckily Hick's was brave enough to actually pen this story.
April 8, 2021
Holy crap! I thought I was ready to read this one, but apparently my PTSD from the Trump administration is not well enough controlled. Spoiler alert, if you have PTSD from Trump, this book will be terrifying. Splatter punk at its best, the story of the “Trump,“ I mean Coleridge, presidency coming to an end is horrific, ‘gore’ific & intense. Definitely not for the weak at heart. The back cover says it’s “Night of the Demons meets Olympus Has Fallen” and I could not agree more. Anxiety inducing & action packed from the beginning to end. Michael Patrick Hicks delivers once again!
November 7, 2024
I haven’t done a lot of written reviews, just star it and move on but I wanted to do more for this so here we go.
In a word: bold. In several other words: funny, bloody, disgusting, relevant, and great.
What started as a story taking a dump on Trum…I mean president Tyler Coleridge turns into a pretty fun and unexpected horror read. My timing on reading it was perfect with everything that happened this week. Definitely worth the read.
In a word: bold. In several other words: funny, bloody, disgusting, relevant, and great.
What started as a story taking a dump on Trum…I mean president Tyler Coleridge turns into a pretty fun and unexpected horror read. My timing on reading it was perfect with everything that happened this week. Definitely worth the read.
February 4, 2021
I co-host Staring Into the Abyss with Mike, so I feel that kind of clouds my judgement on his books. However, I was a fan before we were friends and before we were co-hosts. I'll give a more indepth review here, but overall the book was a cathartic experience.
December 24, 2022
Jesus Christ. Both cathartic and full of trigger warnings galore, Hicks has combined the very real real of what happened to the fiction of what could or might have been. Great stuff. An onslaught, really, and yes, the pun is intended. Go forth, seek out, purchase and enjoy. Tell ‘em another supporter of democracy sent you.
March 18, 2021
This is the first book I read from this author and let me tell you that I loved it! Such a good book with great characters that keeps you obsessed with every page since the first one. The ending of this book.. come on! I just didn´t expect it! Can´t wait to read other books from this great writer! Amazing job! a must-read! A fantastic book that has it all! I happily endorse this story to any and all who are looking for a fiction enjoyable read and a completely different experience than anyone could imagine on their own. ¡Great book!
February 13, 2023
For such a gut churning book, I would still recommend it to anyone.
July 9, 2021
Too political for me, should have not finished. Check out the Salem series and his novellas, they are awesome
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