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In the Basement of the Amazing Alex Cucumber
Three short stories released to the GET ROLFED HORROR CLUB in one sweet e-Book.
Find out what happens when two friends are invited to a party at the home of the enigmatic Alex Cucumber.
Terminal cancer is devouring Kyra Shaw, but the faceless boy offers a way to change her course.
A con man crossing the country loves anyone with alien abduction stories. What kind of trouble could he possibly find in the middle of Kansas?
Trick or treat.
Find out what happens when two friends are invited to a party at the home of the enigmatic Alex Cucumber.
Terminal cancer is devouring Kyra Shaw, but the faceless boy offers a way to change her course.
A con man crossing the country loves anyone with alien abduction stories. What kind of trouble could he possibly find in the middle of Kansas?
Trick or treat.
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Published October 31, 2019
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About the author
Glenn Rolfe
70 books629 followersGlenn Rolfe is a singer, songwriter, and author of over eighteen books. He has studied Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, toured in a minivan with his punk rock friends, played the Hard Rock Cafe in Denver, hosted a radio show at Bates College, and dreams of surfing in the Pacific Ocean one day with his future pet goat.
He loves the books of Stephen King, Brian Keene, Ronald Malfi, Jack Ketchum, and Richard Laymon, the music of Bruce Springsteen, Oasis, Pre-Reputation Taylor Swift, Kiss, and Billy Joel, and soaking in the sun and eating pier fries at Old Orchard Beach.
His kids love him despite his weirdness, so who could ask for more?
He is hard at work on many more books and songs.
Stay tuned!
He is the author of When the Night Falls, Until Summer Comes Around, August's Eyes, Blood and Rain, The Window, and more. Stay tuned for his next thrilling Maine horror novel, The Siren of Groves Peak (2026)
Richard Chizmar, New York Times and USA Today Best Selling-Author of Gwendy’s Button Box, says of Rolfe’s Blood and Rain: “A wonderful throwback to the fun and bloody days of paperback horror glory!”
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November 7, 2018
These are three short stories sent out from Glenn's newsletter for a special Halloween treat.
I had previously read In the Basement of the Amazing Alex Cucumber over the summer as part of the Alien Agenda Publishing (AAP) Sampler (which is an excellent sampler anthology. Read it). So, I re-read about Alex Cucumber's big party he was throwing in his basement. He invited some new kids who were pretty thrilled to have received an invitation, as Alex was a bit mysterious and maybe a bit more popular.
It makes me cringe. If you hear rumors about families that aren't exactly desirable, don't take them up on their party offerings!! And elevators, stay out of elevators.
The second story, You Can Have It All Back, to me, is reminiscent of Stephen King's The Little Green God of Agony. It's one of those stories that really keeps spinning in my brain. Although the story is short, it is still inside my head, turning and turning. I think my personal Jiminy Cricket is too big to do what Kyra Shaw did, but I guess we don't really know what we would do until we are the ones on our death beds. Would you pass on your terminal illness to someone else so You Can Have It All Back? Ugh. Heartstrings.
This was probably my favorite story of the three.
The last story, Believer, is about a traveling scammer named Frank who pretends to be a former psychiatrist. Dr. Roberts scams people out of their cash by listening to their alien encounter stories because they feel so much better after they've had someone listen to them. While he's traveling alone on an empty highway, he gets a little payback. I mean, really, nothing could possibly go wrong on a deserted stretch of road in dark hours of the wee morning, right?
I had previously read In the Basement of the Amazing Alex Cucumber over the summer as part of the Alien Agenda Publishing (AAP) Sampler (which is an excellent sampler anthology. Read it). So, I re-read about Alex Cucumber's big party he was throwing in his basement. He invited some new kids who were pretty thrilled to have received an invitation, as Alex was a bit mysterious and maybe a bit more popular.
It makes me cringe. If you hear rumors about families that aren't exactly desirable, don't take them up on their party offerings!! And elevators, stay out of elevators.
The second story, You Can Have It All Back, to me, is reminiscent of Stephen King's The Little Green God of Agony. It's one of those stories that really keeps spinning in my brain. Although the story is short, it is still inside my head, turning and turning. I think my personal Jiminy Cricket is too big to do what Kyra Shaw did, but I guess we don't really know what we would do until we are the ones on our death beds. Would you pass on your terminal illness to someone else so You Can Have It All Back? Ugh. Heartstrings.
This was probably my favorite story of the three.
The last story, Believer, is about a traveling scammer named Frank who pretends to be a former psychiatrist. Dr. Roberts scams people out of their cash by listening to their alien encounter stories because they feel so much better after they've had someone listen to them. While he's traveling alone on an empty highway, he gets a little payback. I mean, really, nothing could possibly go wrong on a deserted stretch of road in dark hours of the wee morning, right?
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