THE APOCALYPSE-A-DAY DESK CALENDAR: OMNIBUS EDITION($29.34Value)

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In this eclectic assortment of flash fiction, Bram Stoker Award-winner Norman Prentiss concocts a different end-of-the-world scenario for each calendar day. The stories range from humorous to bizarre to unsettling, commemorating holiday and observance days (New Year’s or Valentine’s Day, National Pig Day), famous birthdays (Robert Frost, Charles Dickens), or notable historical events (the first computer…and the first computer virus; the sinking of the Titanic or the Great Chicago Fire). Other daily entries include a riff on the first (and only) golf game on the moon; “The Milking of Elm Farm Ollie,” which reinvigorates an in-flight publicity stunt by adding apocalyptic results; and occasional letters from the sardonic “Dear Apocalypse” advice column. A handful of longer, serialized stories include: “The Hell of Food That Looks Like Other Food,” “The Exterminator’s Visit,” and “The Child Who Ended the World.” This massive collection includes all 365 entries from an ambitious yearlong project: more than 170,000 words of bleak or humorous vignettes, stories, serials, poems, and a few unclassifiable oddities—ready to be sampled in small doses just like the pages of those desk calendars you buy for 50%-off in February…or available all at once for your immediate binge-reading pleasure! This edition includes dozens of illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, perfectly complementing the horror or gruesome humor as the apocalyptic year unfolds. "I've never forgotten a Norman Prentiss story. He builds his nightmares gently, word by word, sentence by sentence, working his way into your subconscious so that you are never sure again if it happened to you, or you dreamt it, or it was a Prentiss story." - Kaaron Warren, Award-Winning author of Through Splintered Walls, The Grinding House, and Dead Sea Fruit. Written By: Norman Prentiss Artwork By: Lynne Hansen Total Pages: 666 Publication Month: August 2023 ISBN Number: 978-1-58767-873-8 Current Stock Status: Available