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Disposal
Meet Frank, a truly reprehensible human being. An egotistical sexist morally vacant scumbag who gets off on committing armed robbery. The kind of creep whose smirk you want to rub off with razor blade-laced sandpaper.
But when he robs Gretchen at gunpoint, he’ll get a lot more than the twelve bucks in her cash register. She makes him an offer he can’t refuse: Kill her husband in exchange for sex. The problem is that her husband is hard to kill. Really hard to kill. Like, the bastard just won’t frickin’ DIE!!!
Lots of bad and occasionally disgusting things happen.
Disposal is the latest demented comedy from Jeff Strand, author of Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and other sicko stuff. He’s also the author of the critically acclaimed thriller Pressure, although Disposal isn’t much like that one.
But when he robs Gretchen at gunpoint, he’ll get a lot more than the twelve bucks in her cash register. She makes him an offer he can’t refuse: Kill her husband in exchange for sex. The problem is that her husband is hard to kill. Really hard to kill. Like, the bastard just won’t frickin’ DIE!!!
Lots of bad and occasionally disgusting things happen.
Disposal is the latest demented comedy from Jeff Strand, author of Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and other sicko stuff. He’s also the author of the critically acclaimed thriller Pressure, although Disposal isn’t much like that one.
- GenresHorror
100 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Jeff Strand
231 books2,238 followersBram Stoker Award-winning author of a bunch of demented books, including PRESSURE, DWELLER, CLOWNS VS. SPIDERS, AUTUMN BLEEDS INTO WINTER, MY PRETTIES, the official novelization of ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, and lots of others!
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October 11, 2017
Twisted, gory fun from a master of horror comedy. Disposal starts out like a crime novel, written from the point of view of a small-time criminal who admits up front that he's not a nice person. When he takes up an offer to kill the husband of a woman he recently mugged (and only got $12 for it), he suspects there may be more to the woman's story than she disclosed when, despite all his efforts, the husband just won't die. Then the crime story turns into a horror story as things continue to go horribly awry. No spoilers here, but Disposal has a very unique ending for a first-person story. If you like stuff like Ash vs. Evil Dead, you'll enjoy Disposal.
January 23, 2009
Jeff Strand (The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Mandibles) is back with another novella, Disposal. Brought to you by Biting Dog Press and part of a three novella series (the other two books are by John Paul Allen and Kealan P. Burke), Disposal is a humorous horror tale filled with gore, twisted sex, and the dark arts.
Frank is a scumbag who makes his living through muggings and armed robbery. While robbing an empty Laundromat, the lone beautiful attendant offers Frank a night of anything-goes sex if he will kill her husband in exchange. The catch is her husband has already had his throat slit, been partially decapitated, stabbed in multiple places, and is partially decomposing, yet he is still breathing. That is when things get weird.
Told from the perspective of Frank, Strand weaves a tense, funny tale of how far one man is willing to go to get laid. The prose flows with ease and the plot takes many twists, reinventing itself every few pages. The overwhelming strength of the book is Strands creativity and playfulness with the story. If this book does not thrill you or make you laugh at least once, you have no business reading horror-fiction.
What first stands out to the reader is that Disposal starts with not one, not two, but ten forwards from horror luminaries such as Michael A. Arnzen, Mark McLaughlin, James A. Moore, and others. Each of these short intros takes very mean, and very funny, shots at Strand and the story itself. Brian Keene and his wife's cat's encounter with Jeff Strand stands out as a tremendous funny piece.
Put together, the various forwards take up one-fourth of the book, but none are superfluously tacked on. Each comments upon and parodies various aspects of the small press horror scene. Be it the overwhelming presence of explicit sex and violence or the fans obsession with limited collectibles. Since Disposal is a limited hardback (only 400, so get them while you still can) and full of violence and sex, the forwards add a unique level of meta-commentary on the whole affair.
While the book's sole aim is to entertain through gore and laughs, the unique presentation makes it more then just a cheap thrill. Despite what the forwards will tell you, Disposal is a great story, sure to leave you giggling long afterward. Jeff Strand may fuck cats, but he has earned the right to.
Frank is a scumbag who makes his living through muggings and armed robbery. While robbing an empty Laundromat, the lone beautiful attendant offers Frank a night of anything-goes sex if he will kill her husband in exchange. The catch is her husband has already had his throat slit, been partially decapitated, stabbed in multiple places, and is partially decomposing, yet he is still breathing. That is when things get weird.
Told from the perspective of Frank, Strand weaves a tense, funny tale of how far one man is willing to go to get laid. The prose flows with ease and the plot takes many twists, reinventing itself every few pages. The overwhelming strength of the book is Strands creativity and playfulness with the story. If this book does not thrill you or make you laugh at least once, you have no business reading horror-fiction.
What first stands out to the reader is that Disposal starts with not one, not two, but ten forwards from horror luminaries such as Michael A. Arnzen, Mark McLaughlin, James A. Moore, and others. Each of these short intros takes very mean, and very funny, shots at Strand and the story itself. Brian Keene and his wife's cat's encounter with Jeff Strand stands out as a tremendous funny piece.
Put together, the various forwards take up one-fourth of the book, but none are superfluously tacked on. Each comments upon and parodies various aspects of the small press horror scene. Be it the overwhelming presence of explicit sex and violence or the fans obsession with limited collectibles. Since Disposal is a limited hardback (only 400, so get them while you still can) and full of violence and sex, the forwards add a unique level of meta-commentary on the whole affair.
While the book's sole aim is to entertain through gore and laughs, the unique presentation makes it more then just a cheap thrill. Despite what the forwards will tell you, Disposal is a great story, sure to leave you giggling long afterward. Jeff Strand may fuck cats, but he has earned the right to.
May 1, 2014
While Strand continues to horrify and amuse, this time around he doesn't do it by himself. Instead he's pulled in ten other authors to help him out; each writing their own mini foreword for the book. Authors like Brian Keene, J.A Konrath, Christopher Golden and others. And none of them had a good word to say about Strand. Of course, they are all having fun but it is a great way to start the story and set the mood.
From there we move into the story of Frank, an admitted scumbag. One evening while robbing a dry cleaner this scumbag gets an offer that is perfect for him. Gretchen, the clerk at the dry cleaner, offers him an evening of sex if Frank kills her husband. Only after accepting the offer does Frank realize that her husband is hard to kill. Like next to impossible to kill! Frank then goes from one difficult problem to the next, keeping us amused the whole time.
From that perspective, this novel is more aligned with Strand's Andrew Mayhem series; the protagonist is introduced, given a problem to solve and then has humorous mishap after mishap occur. It doesn't have the emotional depth of Strand's DWELLER but then it is not meant to. It is crazy fun that will have you shaking your head and smiling.
From there we move into the story of Frank, an admitted scumbag. One evening while robbing a dry cleaner this scumbag gets an offer that is perfect for him. Gretchen, the clerk at the dry cleaner, offers him an evening of sex if Frank kills her husband. Only after accepting the offer does Frank realize that her husband is hard to kill. Like next to impossible to kill! Frank then goes from one difficult problem to the next, keeping us amused the whole time.
From that perspective, this novel is more aligned with Strand's Andrew Mayhem series; the protagonist is introduced, given a problem to solve and then has humorous mishap after mishap occur. It doesn't have the emotional depth of Strand's DWELLER but then it is not meant to. It is crazy fun that will have you shaking your head and smiling.
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