Dark Humor

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate....

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him....

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book....

Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate; she works an easy job at a hip art gallery and lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side....

From author Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim....

The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one....

You'd Look Better as a Ghost follows the trials and tribulations of Claire, a part-time serial killer, who is keen to keep her favorite hobby a secret—despite the efforts of a determined blackmailer....

In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters....

Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all....

Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems....

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the 21st century....

Young copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films - something that the men aren't very good at....

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules....

For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best....

Swords. Sorcery. Dick Jokes. Truly do the gods smile upon you, dear listener, for the first four books in the hilarious Caverns and Creatures series are now available in one audiobook set. Join Tim, Dave, Julian, and Cooper as they are thrown into a hostile fantasy world....

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done–and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them....

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps....

Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside....

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: 23 of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales....

When Chaz Perron's wife discovers that he is running a scam (posing as a marine biologist to doctor water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the Everglades), he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner....

Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome....

Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris....

Victor Mancini, a medical school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: He pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants....

The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss....

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive...

This edition collects books one and two of the Shady Holler series, The Nine Lives of Frank Tipton and Shady Holler Holidays. The Nine Lives of Frank Tipton, is a black humor version of the Cinderella story set deep in the redneck south. Think My Name is Earl with a female lead and a lot of dead bodies. Think Raising Hope but with no baby or meemaw. Think True Blood, but without the vampires, hotties, or hunks. It’s complete with revenge, murder, mentally-challenged kids, and a love story. Audrey Peters is a hard working girl from a small backwater town in Virginia. Having never been ...

In this fourth in the Too-Sweet Saga, our heroine, Too-Sweet, along with Speedy Gonzales, have fled London by train to Liverpool. They take a ferry to Belfast, in Northern Ireland, along with ten kilos of cocaine that Speedy had stashed in a storage locker back in Soho. Upon arriving they rent a nasty old, boarded up bar, built out on a wharf called The Black Irish. They get help from their IRA friends to get things going. Too-Sweet decides to build a big mud pit in the center of the bar and feature nude wrestling with four female mud honeys, who also serve drinks when not rolling around in...

Set in Depression-era Savannah, Georgia, THE FRENCH STRANGER tells the story of Fred Dumas—a woman's pleasure specialist—who unknowingly kills Bunny Meyers, and is being hunted by two hit men set on him by her husband, a wealthy man who is running for mayor. This culminates into a cascade of dizzying absurdities that touch on a wide range of topics including: quantum and time theory, reincarnation, parallel universes, nirvana, baseball, World War I, chicken boxing, voodoo, Chick-O-Sticks, Ragnarök, and it answers the age-old question: if man made the chicken, did the chicken also make man?

In this third in the Too-Sweet Saga, Too-Sweet after fleeing Tijuana, Mexico, heads to London where she establishes a new club she calls the Gay Paddy, which is an authentic Irish Leather Bar and Spank Emporium. Along the way you will meet a new cast of crazy characters, along with Speedy Gonzales who has shipped over ten kilos of cocaine hidden inside thousands of frozen burritos. If you enjoyed DIVAS and Tijuana Taxi, you will die laughing to English Rose. This is by far Griffith's best Too-Sweet Saga yet.

Too-Sweet after leaving Japan, discovers the perfect place for a southern girl. Queensland north of Cairns where she buys with her Japanese Yakuza partner, a crocodile farm, bar, jungle boat, and a twenty unit motel. Too-Sweet discovers that in Australia dwarf tossing at bars is considered great sport, and names her new bar The Naked Pygmy. Living on her property is a tribe of pygmies from Papua New Guinea who also happen to be cannibals. So although she doesn't have any dwarfs for tossing, her little pygmies will do and Too-Sweet is back in business. This is the 6th in the Too-Sweet Saga ...

This second in the Big Huna series takes up where Spam Sushi left off. The Bunkers consists of seven, ten-year-old boys who sell dried seaweed as pot to military and tourist in Waikiki. One day while Chewy was pulling Mellon Head on his skateboard while holding on to the back of Chewy's mountain bike, Mellon Head grabbed a purse from an Asian lady on Kohio and away they went. A couple of blocks away they open the purse and find a kilo of Ice inside. The little boys are delighted and share the captured booty with the whole gang. But being only ten years old they have a problem--how to sell ...

The third in the Big Huna Series is the wildest yet. With a cast of characters right out of Oliver Twist. The little bunkers, a gang of ten year old boys, rob a bank wearing black rubber pygmy masks. Now that they have over ten thousand dollars, they want to go to Disneyland but have a problem. How to get on a plane with no ID. They enlist the aid of the Weasel to buy the tickets and accompany them as their uncle and rent their hotel rooms. Meanwhile back in Waikiki there is a serial killer loose and giving Big Huna and Pokey the blues. Outrageously funny! Scott Bayer, Indie Film Reporter

After about 15 minutes, Weasel looked up to see two Honolulu Detectives enter the club. He sighed upon seeing them because he knew them well. Duki Boy and Big Sam, who in Weasel’s opinion were the biggest assholes on the Honolulu P.D. The two detectives spoke with a uniformed officer who pointed at the Weasel. Big Sam was Samoan and weighed about 270 pounds. Duki boy was smaller and only weighed 200 pounds. Both detectives stared at the Weasel and their faces lit up with delight. They began approaching Weasel’s booth while ogling the dancers who were sitting here and there. Weasel was ...

The year is 2038, America’s new President won with a simple, snappy campaign slogan: Kill the Rich. Now in office, his administration kicks off with a televised public hanging of Kim Kardashian, whose lip kits have poisoned a working-class city.

Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy, he’s abruptly cancelled. To spare the band from fallout with obsessive fans and overbearing management, Duri disappears from the public eye by hiding out in the McMansion of a Chinese American woman he meets in a Los Angeles H-Mart. But his rescuer is both unhappily married with children and a psychologist with a savior complex, a combination that makes their potential union both seductive and incredibly problematic.

Shy, reserved Nadia did not expect to meet a cute boy in her Summer art class, but Aiden just seems to be everywhere she goes. Is fate trying to tell her something? Could Aiden (and his cute dimples) finally be Nadia's first boyfriend?

From Passing the Bar to Living in his Car ... Lawyer and former law professor Peter Panelli suddenly finds himself homeless, eventually living in a crack house. And he doesn't even smoke crack. And an accidental trip to church landed him in the crack house. (Yes, really; I'm not lying to you.) Can it get any more surreal, or worse? “This story is as mad as a box of frogs.” – Unknown Human Being (aka Anonymous) Written in a humorous, reflective voice, highlighting Panelli’s bewilderment and self-searching, ADDICT’S WAY chronicles a year in the life of Peter Panelli, a 60-year-old ...

Since the day I was born, my dog Lady has never left my side. For twelve years, Lady has been the most faithful, most kind, and most loving best friend a girl could have. I don't know what the future will bring us here in Ma and Pa's farm, but the one thing I do know is that Lady and I will always be together.

Bud is the happiest dog in the world. His Boy, JR, is about to turn thirteen, and a whole summer of adventure and fun awaits them! That is, until an unexpected discovery hidden deep in a mysterious island threatens to change their lives forever. But Bud is sure of one thing: JR is his best friend and nothing will ever tear them apart.

When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation. As the murdered men are identified, it becomes clear that they all had a history of abuse towards women, leading Riley to wonder if it would actually be in society's best interests to catch the killers. But when her best friend Carla is attacked, and the police show little interest in tracking down the offender, Chastity takes matters into her own hands.