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Black Comedy Books
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Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,402 ratings — published 2017
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504,038 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 895,368 ratings — published 1961
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,828 ratings — published 1991
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,611 ratings — published 2014
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,536 ratings — published 1962
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 190,367 ratings — published 1930
The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 186,892 ratings — published 2000
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 577,328 ratings — published 1999
The Sisters Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,304 ratings — published 2011
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,539 ratings — published 1971
The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 176,085 ratings — published 2000
The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 248,246 ratings — published 1999
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,257 ratings — published 2005
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,919 ratings — published 2001
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 834,087 ratings — published 1990
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.31 — 338,407 ratings — published 2012
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,958 ratings — published 1963
The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,587 ratings — published 2001
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 200,840 ratings — published 2001
The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 213,713 ratings — published 2000
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 962,359 ratings — published 1955
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.63 — 365,569 ratings — published 2018
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
by (shelved 6 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 155,592 ratings — published 2001
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 124,851 ratings — published 1999
The Loved One (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,885 ratings — published 1948
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 183,171 ratings — published 1993
The Pillowman (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.29 — 18,351 ratings — published 2003
Deadeye Dick (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,117 ratings — published 1982
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 137,127 ratings — published 2003
The Radleys (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.57 — 29,849 ratings — published 2010
Hocus Pocus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,180 ratings — published 1990
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.76 — 305,904 ratings — published 1759
The Suicide Shop (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.46 — 24,922 ratings — published 2007
Vernon God Little (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.62 — 34,009 ratings — published 2003
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,661 ratings — published 1959
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,363 ratings — published 1996
Horns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 121,417 ratings — published 2010
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,468 ratings — published 1998
The Third Policeman (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 23,478 ratings — published 1967
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 590,274 ratings — published 2018
Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,297 ratings — published 2017
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,436 ratings — published 2001
The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 125,977 ratings — published 2004
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.01 — 141,865 ratings — published 2002
The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.04 — 118,065 ratings — published 2006
The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.09 — 118,319 ratings — published 2005
Undermajordomo Minor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,198 ratings — published 2015
A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as black-comedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 124,694 ratings — published 2006
“Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.”
― The Biggest Little Bird
― The Biggest Little Bird
“The Zombie Firetruck by Stewart Stafford
Sirens moan, grave duty's flash of red,
A mortuary whiff of something dead,
Hoses trained with brains they suck,
Your friendly neighbourhood zombie firetruck!
All that remained of the human fire team,
From the zombie pandemic of 2017,
Still in their uniforms, their only treasures,
Apocalyptic times call for end-time measures.
When they reached the fire, people did scoff,
They lurched, staggered, body parts fell off,
As they wandered around, fire hoses forlorn,
These knightly living dead faced a blazing dawn.
The chief, hat off to his skeleton crew,
In a voice once alive, now croaky like flu:
'To the hydrant, my ghouls, let's save Gothik Town,
Or they'll call Ghostbusters, we'll be the clowns!'
A glowering inferno, a cremation scene,
Zombie firefighters, brave and light green.
Through smoke and ash, they gravely stand,
Composed decomposition with skeletal hand.
Axeman Bony Ed led their clattering charge,
Into the smoke, his cadavers did barge,
The townsfolk looked on in dead of night,
And disbelief, tiredness and mild fright.
There soon followed medic Cemetery Phil,
Decaying Murphy, Old Salty, and Dead Drill,
Slab Stevens, Madly Hyde and Molly Voodoo,
Determined to shake their initial hoodoo.
A mother and baby backed by burning drapes,
Team Macabre charged up the fire escape,
Saving both and getting everyone out,
Drank Brainer Ade as they leaked like a spout.
Somehow, undead teamwork saved the day,
No lives were lost as the water sprayed,
Doused the flames, cool flatlined heroes,
Much zombie kudos, no longer scary zeroes.
The crowd cheered, did they ever doubt it?
High fives lost hands but new ones sprouted,
Frankenstein proud in their flapping flesh,
Sure to get medals at the HalloweenFest.
With a final groan and a clatter of bones,
The zombie firetruck headed back home.
Rotten yet proud, in their reanimated way,
The risen would fight fires another day.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Sirens moan, grave duty's flash of red,
A mortuary whiff of something dead,
Hoses trained with brains they suck,
Your friendly neighbourhood zombie firetruck!
All that remained of the human fire team,
From the zombie pandemic of 2017,
Still in their uniforms, their only treasures,
Apocalyptic times call for end-time measures.
When they reached the fire, people did scoff,
They lurched, staggered, body parts fell off,
As they wandered around, fire hoses forlorn,
These knightly living dead faced a blazing dawn.
The chief, hat off to his skeleton crew,
In a voice once alive, now croaky like flu:
'To the hydrant, my ghouls, let's save Gothik Town,
Or they'll call Ghostbusters, we'll be the clowns!'
A glowering inferno, a cremation scene,
Zombie firefighters, brave and light green.
Through smoke and ash, they gravely stand,
Composed decomposition with skeletal hand.
Axeman Bony Ed led their clattering charge,
Into the smoke, his cadavers did barge,
The townsfolk looked on in dead of night,
And disbelief, tiredness and mild fright.
There soon followed medic Cemetery Phil,
Decaying Murphy, Old Salty, and Dead Drill,
Slab Stevens, Madly Hyde and Molly Voodoo,
Determined to shake their initial hoodoo.
A mother and baby backed by burning drapes,
Team Macabre charged up the fire escape,
Saving both and getting everyone out,
Drank Brainer Ade as they leaked like a spout.
Somehow, undead teamwork saved the day,
No lives were lost as the water sprayed,
Doused the flames, cool flatlined heroes,
Much zombie kudos, no longer scary zeroes.
The crowd cheered, did they ever doubt it?
High fives lost hands but new ones sprouted,
Frankenstein proud in their flapping flesh,
Sure to get medals at the HalloweenFest.
With a final groan and a clatter of bones,
The zombie firetruck headed back home.
Rotten yet proud, in their reanimated way,
The risen would fight fires another day.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
