Books tagged: black comedy

The adult filter is active; content marked as adults-only by the author is not listed.

Full Search
Found: 39 results

The Apprentice    by Gordon Houghton
Price: $3.99 USD. 79020 words. Published on March 15, 2010. .

A corpse is resurrected and apprenticed to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for seven days. During the course of the week, he tries to remember how he died, accompanies Death on his daily round, and learns what it means to be undead. Printed editions: The Apprentice (UK, 1999); Damned If You Do (US, 2000); Death's Apprentice (Russia, 2003); L'Apprendista (Italy, 2010).
POP-splat    by Ian Martin
Price: $4.99 USD. 48370 words. Published on April 24, 2010. .

A prominent businessman is murdered in an apparent hijacking. For Matt Dreyer the death of his father seems like murder most foul. This disturbed Hamlet of the 21st century sets off on a tortuous and bloody hell ride to track down his father’s killers. Ian Martin's POP-Splat looks at today’s South Africa through cynical eyes and uses his unique brand of sick humor to satirize a sick society.
Henry's Nursing Notes    by Ian Martin
Price: $0.99 USD. 18290 words. Published on May 16, 2010. .

Ian Martin spent three years as a hospital orderly and kept a ward diary chronicling the sights, sounds and smells that assailed him. Based on this record, "Henry Fuckit's Nursing Notes" is an unflinching account of nursing the sick and dying. Looking through the eyes of his disreputable hero, Martin uses a brutal blend of cynicism and dark humour to describe a world of suffering and pathos.
Boracic Lint    by Martin Bryce
Price: $4.95 USD. 66790 words. Published on May 22, 2010. .

An out of work actor with a serious superiority complex lands work playing Santa Claus in the grotto of the world famous London department store, Harridges. It seems like child's play , it turns out to be anything but. Every ounce of his improvisation skills is challenged by the children who come to see him. His colleagues stretch his wit and wisdom to the limit until he makes a fateful decision.
SCHIZO    by Grant Foxon
Price: $1.99 USD. 460 words. Published on July 14, 2010. .

A series of mind twisting horrific and black humour short stories.
Tom Sawyer In Hell    by Peter Black
Price: $0.99 USD. 63950 words. Published on September 9, 2010. .

All life is a series of stories and Tom Sawyer in Hell is mine. The narrative follows the misadventures of a naive young man who has optimistic expectations about life that rapidly go south as he makes his way thru college, courts and jails and small town lawyers, strip clubs, a gig as a Park Avenue doorman, hopelessness, psychopharmacology, absurdity, and the struggle to land a corporate job.
Core Values    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 97600 words. Published on September 25, 2010. .

Charles Henry Brubaker is the other guy. Everything bad happens to him. When everything is going well, that is not the true test. It's when everything and everyone is against you. It's what you do then. That is the measure of a man.
Dominance Games: An Essay on Power A Novel    by B Schiff
Price: $1.99 USD. 50770 words. Published on January 26, 2011. .

Back alleys. Aphrodisiacs. Sweet honor, power, revenge. A hard, tough country with life full, intimidation fast, heat coming as a whippet, a whirlwind. A hard cynical little novel. 50,000 words. Dominance Games. A dirty rapt primer. a mean searing little story. Intimidation stalks time and decades. A tempered stew radiates out from the sinews and muscles of longing and regret.
Lust Games: An Essay on Honor A Novel    by B Schiff
Price: $1.99 USD. 58090 words. Published on January 29, 2011. .

Honor; the wicked master. Redemption, the tough and unforgiving act. Lust; the wicked mistress. Death. Legacies. A heathen home. Paradise lost. Lust driven temptresses. Besotted clowns. Worlds in flux. Cynical chiselers, power hungry bastards, low rent power vacuums. Integrity. Victory. Two lovers. A muse. Lust Games: an Essay on Honor, 58, 000 words. High rent parades of fools.
Pick Any Title    by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 104830 words. Published on March 2, 2011. .

In this black comedy ‘Lord Clive’ inveigles Jane Strachey into helping him sell British ‘Lord of the Manor’ titles to Americans. Among his gulls are a shrewd businessman, a hell-fire preacher and a New York gangster. When lawyers pounce and guns start to fire, Strachey finds she need more than good looks and smart words to save her skin. ‘A brilliant page-turner,’ said the Times.