John Bruni is a unique visionary, granting us entrance into a world that could exist just as easily decades from now as it could a week from tomorrow. The future he crafts for us in POOR BASTARDS AND RICH FUCKS is both surreal and surreptitiously familiar. His is a world where, regardless of how society advances, the human condition renders characters placated by apathy and disillusionment or excess and hedonism. POOR BASTARDS AND RICH FUCKS is your life, tangentially explored to ease your unease . . . but only a little. After all, it wouldn't be fun if you didn't squirm a little, would it? Kirk Jones, author of JOURNEY TO ABORTOSPHERE &amp; UNCLE SAM'S CARNIVAL OF COPULATING INANIMALS It is the year 2200. Richard Coppergate and the wealthiest citizens of the city, have gathered for their annual game: kidnap seven people the world wouldn't miss--bums, prostitutes and the mentally ill--and turn them loose in the city with a mission to hunt and kill each other. The prize? One billion dollars. This year the stakes are personal. Two of the contestants are sons of the rich fucks. One of the contestants is a ringer. And one of the rich fucks likes hunting the contestants. Coppergate and his game have come to the attention of a revolutionary who lives off the grid and an outlaw journalist intent on bringing the whole thing crashing down. John Bruni, the author of TALES OF QUESTIONABLE TASTE, brings you POOR BASTARDS AND RICH FUCKS, the ultimate tale of the class struggle. Who will win? Who will die? Who are YOU going to place your bets on?

Poor Bastards and Rich Fucks

Bruni, John

Literature & Fiction

Rooster Republic Press

NO VAMPIRES… NO WEREWOLVES… NO ZOMBIES... BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. You’ve heard their stories before and you’re screaming for a different breed of horror. Those monsters have had their moments in the moonlight and now it’s time for us to bury them in their graves. Let’s lock them in their coffins, pierce their hearts with wooden stakes and shoot them between their rotting eyes with silver bullets from an AK-47. You wanted some new monsters. You got ‘em. Say “hello” to the ones that are still hidden by the shadows. The ones that peer from behind the gravestones with multi-faceted eyes and crawl from the sewers on slime-covered tentacles. The ones that stain the pages within this tome with the blood of their victims. NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONSTER: A BESTIARY OF HORRORS 22 new monstrosities unleashed upon the world from the deviant minds of: Kya Aliana D. Morgan Ballmer Rose Blackthorn John Bruni The Behrg Jeff Carlson Mark Carroll Adrian Chamberlin Adrian Cole Richard Dansky Jeremy Hepler Beau Johnson Pete Kahle Rob Lammle Esther M. Leiper-Estabrooks Marc Lyth Christine Morgan Billie Sue Mosiman Megan Neumann Jason Parent Joshua Rex Seth Skorkowsky THIS AIN’T YOUR DADDY’S NIGHTMARE!

Not Your Average Monster: A Bestiary of Horrors

Carlson, Jeff

Cole, Adrian

Blackthorn, Rose

Carroll, Mark

Kahle, Pete

Chamberlin, Adrian

Aliana, Kya

Ballmer, D. Morgan

The Behrg

Genre Fiction

Bloodshot Books

The things you do for money . . . . Desperate times call for desperate measures, and when a team of unlikely criminals band together for an audacious score, everything is bound to go off the rails. A broke strip club announcer, an ex-con bodybuilder, a meth-head drag racer, and a career criminal have set their eyes on the local strip club, where a safe full of millions of dollars in cash awaits them. What none of them know is that the place is under surveillance by police officers intent on busting the Mafioso owner . . .

Strip

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In search of the ferocious truth, some would call trying to channel the spirit of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson a fool's errand. But these are desperate times. So settle in for this trilogy of uppers, downers, screamers, laughers from John Bruni (Tales of Questionable Taste), Kent Hill (Hercules with a Shotgun) and Kevin Candela (Weedeaters: The Complete Acropalypse) as they bring you just what the doctor ordered."Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why" - Hunter S. Thompson

The Doctor . . . is in: Three twisted tales inspired by the legendary Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Candela, Kevin

Hill, Kent

Humor & Satire

You think you know the Lewis and Clark expedition, but you don't. Hi Ziege is a man who thought he was wasting his life until he discovered that he could do so much more by joining the Discovery Corps from such a nameless place as La Charrette. Everything that Lewis and Clark and all the others left out of their journals is recorded here, including their experiences with aliens and bigfoot (bigfeet?). "Stylistically, he's a blend of Edward Lee and Jeremy Robert Johnson." -Brian Keene, author of The Rising and The Seven "John Bruni has combined historical and hysterical into a bizarro-themed redneck autobiography for the age of the absurd. A gory, nasty, wild bout of fun we didn't know we needed, until the blood and moonshine spilled from the pages in front of us and congealed into one hell of a cocktail." -Michael Allen Rose, author of Boiled Americans

The Life and Times of Hieronymus Aloysis Ziege: By Hi Ziege, Edited and Introduced by John Bruni

Bizarro Pulp Press

In Scientific Americans, John Bruni brings matters of global citizenship and ecological awareness to bear on an analysis of literary naturalism and identity formation. Bruni looks at the works of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London, and Henry Adams, arguing that their works both illustrate how social environments shape the representation and reception of evolutionary theories and test the evolutionary destablilizing of identity against the social categories of race, gender, and citizenship.

Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Intersections in Literature and Science)

Science & Math

University of Wales Press

Mickey Scarlet is a man who, as a child, had a beast beaten into him by his father. As an adult he uses this beast to help him survive as a cop and later as an ex-convict, but that's not easy when Lucifer Robinson offers to keep him on retainer for any number of illegal acts he needs performed. Mickey has no idea who is really in charge of this enterprise, but he finds himself lost in a phantasmagorical world filled with monsters and lowlifes while all he wants to do is find his estranged wife so he can finally meet his child.John Bruni, author of POOR BASTARDS AND RICH FUCKS and DONG OF FRANKENSTEIN, brings us a horrifying tale about cycles of abuse and the horrors it creates.Brian Keene, author of PRESSURE and THE RISING, says about John Bruni, "Stylistically, he's a blend of Edward Lee and Jeremy Robert Johnson."

Blood

StrangeHouse Books

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