Everybody Scream
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Jeffrey Thomas first seduced readers to the world of Punktown through a short story collection of the same name, bending time and technology to create a futuristic world which felt more real than our own. Everybody Scream! continues the seduction with characters every bit as vibrant only this time each person’s story collides with the others in a dizzying thrill-ride of a novel.
It’s the final day of the season for the annual Punktown Fair and excitement is high. For the couple in charge, Del and Sophi Kahn, it’s a bittersweet day of transition. Little do they realize the trials they will face and how severely this one day will test their relationship. In fact, closing day seems to be a catalyst for many Punktown residents; drawing them in, stirring them up and letting them loose on each other.
This roller coaster tale builds to a peak of expectation then plummets, twisting and turning, a breathtaking juggernaut to the final chapters with plenty of screams and giggles along the way.
What They’re Saying About Everybody Scream
“Thomas introduces a variety of interesting and well- developed characters whose lives collide at the carnival for a night of murder and mayhem. What makes Everybody Scream! interesting is that the characters are fully developed, with both strengths and moments of weakness. Punktown feels like Frank Miller’s Sin City, with a good dose of science fiction thrown in…Recommended.”
—Monster Librarian
“Jeffrey Thomas tells a great story. Everybody Scream is sensual, slow and easy, like making love on a hot summer afternoon, and comes to an equally fiery climax. Come to Punktown; have a great time, but make sure you come armed.”
—Horror World
“With a practically limitless (and virtually unexplored) landscape on which to paint on—the planet of Oasis—and a vast supply of bizarre characters, Thomas’ Punktown saga could be as popular and long-lived as series like Robert Asprin’s Phule’s Company saga and Green’s aforementioned Deathstalker sequence. Alex, the savage, sex-crazed protagonist of the Burgess classic, unintentionally describes Everybody Scream! perfectly: “… a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent.”
—SFReader
“The results are alternately hilarious and terrifying…As in his earlier works, Thomas uses techniques and ideas pioneered by Lovecraft to make caustic social observations about humanity, in particular our exploitation of other species.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Jeffrey Thomas has a surreal ability to get to the heart and deep in the headspace of every emotion his characters experience…Full of edge, honesty, pain, and eroticism, it will satisfy any insatiable appetite looking for a damn fine read.”
—Gothic Review
“Jeffrey Thomas has created an intricate and thoroughly engrossing world
here, one that digs deep and lingers. Whether you’re a stranger to Punktown
or a long time resident, this book will peel the lead paint off the inside
of your skull.”
—Carlton Mellick III, author Satan Burger
Praise for Jeffrey Thomas:
“Jeffrey Thomas is a writer to watch. I just can’t put down his books once I start them.”
—Douglas Clegg
About the Cover Artist
David Anthony Magitis is an artist from the UK with a BA in Graphic Design. According to Magitis, “My art is how I feel, the horror, anxiety, depression, pleasure and pain. A bid to bring out those demons that hide deep inside.” He has done cover art for the chapbook Hell on the Installment Plan, as well as for RDSP’s Sick: An Anthology of Illnessand the forthcomimg e-book A Razor Ocean.
See a gallery of his work at: Now Surreal.
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