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Turkey Day
On Thanksgiving morning, Kelly and her wife Angela return to Kelly’s rural childhood home for a family reunion and holiday dinner. Not everyone welcomes them to the feast; like the country, they are a family divided. Also in attendance is a secret guest in an intricate turkey costume, somebody influenced by the holiday’s darker history, somebody who hollows out humans and decorates with their insides. Not even Jerky and Giblet, the turkeys kept in the coop out back, will receive a pardon from Turkey’s slaughter. Can Kelly and Angela survive until Thanksgiving dinner, and will anyone be alive to serve it?
368 pages, Paperback
Published November 2, 2016
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About the author
Armando D. Muñoz
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Author Armando Muñoz specializes in writing within the horror genre, and the horror genre is taking notice. On Armando’s novels, best-selling horror/fantasy author Clive Barker states, “Your prose is beautifully crafted. You have an instinctive understanding of the complex challenges of horror story-telling. Consider me a new fan.”
Armando’s debut novel Hoarder was released in 2015, and received a rave review in Fangoria Magazine, which called it “dynamite – a sickening, imaginative shocker.” One year later came the release of his second novel Turkey Day. The year 2021 saw the release of Turkey Kitchen, an epic sequel to Turkey Day.
Early 2023 saw the release of Armando's official novelization of the 1981 Canadian horror classic, My Bloody Valentine, which features a foreword by the film's director George Mihalka for Beyond Killer Games. In December 2023, his second novelization was released for Silent Night, Deadly Night. 2024 saw the release of three more novelizations, for Happy Birthday to Me, Basket Case, and Black Christmas, all for Beyond Killer Games.
Armando is currently compiling his first collection of gothic short fiction, and his novelization of Silent Night, Deadly Night is getting a paperback release on October 21, 2025 from Titan Books. A new tie-in novel has been completed, to be announced soon.
Author Armando Muñoz specializes in writing within the horror genre, and the horror genre is taking notice. On Armando’s novels, best-selling horror/fantasy author Clive Barker states, “Your prose is beautifully crafted. You have an instinctive understanding of the complex challenges of horror story-telling. Consider me a new fan.”
Armando’s debut novel Hoarder was released in 2015, and received a rave review in Fangoria Magazine, which called it “dynamite – a sickening, imaginative shocker.” One year later came the release of his second novel Turkey Day. The year 2021 saw the release of Turkey Kitchen, an epic sequel to Turkey Day.
Early 2023 saw the release of Armando's official novelization of the 1981 Canadian horror classic, My Bloody Valentine, which features a foreword by the film's director George Mihalka for Beyond Killer Games. In December 2023, his second novelization was released for Silent Night, Deadly Night. 2024 saw the release of three more novelizations, for Happy Birthday to Me, Basket Case, and Black Christmas, all for Beyond Killer Games.
Armando is currently compiling his first collection of gothic short fiction, and his novelization of Silent Night, Deadly Night is getting a paperback release on October 21, 2025 from Titan Books. A new tie-in novel has been completed, to be announced soon.
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January 19, 2017
This Thanksgiving, the turkey has the carving knife…and it’s out for gay blood!
I know author and filmmaker Armando D. Muñoz for his campy, crude horror, and some of that can be found here, considering the killer in this holiday slasher novel is dressed in a turkey costume, is called Turkey, and goes around on Thanksgiving Day mutilating a family to make them the main course. All the crucial elements of a slasher are perfectly presented, including gruesome, inventive kills, chase scenes, body reveals, and a whodunit…or is it a whatdunit? But Turkey Day is not simply a masked-killer-hacks-up-horny-teens slasher. This is an unapologetic story about the vicious cultural clash between the far left and far right.
Kelly is bringing her wife Angela to meet her family for the first time, even though Kelly’s mother and grandmother have gone off the deep end, serving up a dish of hateful religious extremism the likes of the Phelps clan of crazies. In fact, both sides come across as virtual caricatures of their ideology. To illustrate the point of division in our country, Muñoz doesn’t hold back, with all members of both parties regularly, aggressively expressing their beliefs and opinions through their words, actions, and thoughts. Reading the novel will stir up your anxiety and anger about our current reality, but it will also challenge your stance, for there are moments when even the characters representing the “side” you more identify with are so hyperbolic and antagonistic that they become rather detestable. The good news with that is…Turkey doesn’t discriminate, so everyone is on the chopping block.
The rest – the brutally descriptive gore, tension and suspense, atmosphere, and shocking killer reveal - is gravy.
I know author and filmmaker Armando D. Muñoz for his campy, crude horror, and some of that can be found here, considering the killer in this holiday slasher novel is dressed in a turkey costume, is called Turkey, and goes around on Thanksgiving Day mutilating a family to make them the main course. All the crucial elements of a slasher are perfectly presented, including gruesome, inventive kills, chase scenes, body reveals, and a whodunit…or is it a whatdunit? But Turkey Day is not simply a masked-killer-hacks-up-horny-teens slasher. This is an unapologetic story about the vicious cultural clash between the far left and far right.
Kelly is bringing her wife Angela to meet her family for the first time, even though Kelly’s mother and grandmother have gone off the deep end, serving up a dish of hateful religious extremism the likes of the Phelps clan of crazies. In fact, both sides come across as virtual caricatures of their ideology. To illustrate the point of division in our country, Muñoz doesn’t hold back, with all members of both parties regularly, aggressively expressing their beliefs and opinions through their words, actions, and thoughts. Reading the novel will stir up your anxiety and anger about our current reality, but it will also challenge your stance, for there are moments when even the characters representing the “side” you more identify with are so hyperbolic and antagonistic that they become rather detestable. The good news with that is…Turkey doesn’t discriminate, so everyone is on the chopping block.
The rest – the brutally descriptive gore, tension and suspense, atmosphere, and shocking killer reveal - is gravy.
December 1, 2024
I was the kid giving up church and its hypocrisies in favor of Stephen King at a tender, young age.
I’m still the adult who would rather stand on the side of human rights as an ally and read “satanic” literature than deny others their humanity in service of a fairy tale that many seem to completely ignore the “golden rule” beating heart of.
And all of that to say: it doesn’t matter where you stand, I couldn’t find any joy or catharsis or satire in the misanthropic pages of this book.
Not for me.
I’m still the adult who would rather stand on the side of human rights as an ally and read “satanic” literature than deny others their humanity in service of a fairy tale that many seem to completely ignore the “golden rule” beating heart of.
And all of that to say: it doesn’t matter where you stand, I couldn’t find any joy or catharsis or satire in the misanthropic pages of this book.
Not for me.
November 24, 2025
A married gay couple goes home for the holidays, but not everyone is happy about it. The killings soon start.
One thing I didn't like was the father was decapitated but he could still think, still walk. I understand there is myth like 8 second after a decapitation the brain can still think. But this man was still walking like he was a chicken. Very unrealistic. But the rest of the book was good.
One thing I didn't like was the father was decapitated but he could still think, still walk. I understand there is myth like 8 second after a decapitation the brain can still think. But this man was still walking like he was a chicken. Very unrealistic. But the rest of the book was good.
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August 11, 2017
Turkey Day, by Armando D. Muñoz, is a terrifying, hilarious, infuriating story about a lesbian couple who visit their family on Thanksgiving. This author knows how to deliver the gross as well as the inspiring. read this book - you'll be glad you did.
December 1, 2021
While it was a bit slow to start, this book was a fantastic ride.
November 27, 2024
DNF at 55 %
The story was so promising. The writing was too much. It's as though the author had a certain amount of words they needed to reach for the book.
Happy turkey day indeed.... 🦃
The story was so promising. The writing was too much. It's as though the author had a certain amount of words they needed to reach for the book.
Happy turkey day indeed.... 🦃
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